Abstract
Paradigms and related discourses on health are historically related to the specific socio-economic, cultural and political context in which they are produced. Biomedicine has been the dominant paradigm concerning health in western industrial society, perceiving health as absence of illness. Since the 1970's - 1980's the dominance of the bio-medical paradigm in health has benn questioned. An important challenge has come from the World Health Organisation who took the lead in the 1970's-1980's in rediscovering public health and promoting it as the new public health. The Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion provided the ideological definition and political strategy for new public health solutions to current health problems world wide. Such Charter solutions were clarified and further elaborated on in a series of major international, health promotion conferences and meetings.
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