Healthy Turkey Vision and Mission

Vision

To lead the formation of a society that has made healthy living a culture.

Mission

To ensure the development of knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that will enable individuals to have primary responsibility for protecting their health.

Goals

Health Promotion and Health Policy Association has adopted the following goals in the context of health protection, development and health promotion:

• To create knowledge and advocacy through research; to ensure that the public has easy access to this information.
• Contribute through mediation and cooperation to the formulation of a rational public health policy by bringing together interested parties.
• To contribute to the personal and social development of individuals and empower them by organizing the necessary activities to mobilize community action; to create national and international networks for health promotion and to strengthen existing networks.

What is Health Promotion?

Health promotion encompasses all support that aims to create behavioral change to protect and improve the health of individuals. These include health education, organizational, economic and environmental support. Reaching the right health behaviors to large masses is the basis of health promotion objectives. In this framework, health promotion practices aim to increase personal choices and social responsibility by helping individuals strengthen their own health.

World Health Organization. Milestones for Health Promotion and Development: Selections from Global Conferences. Geneva, 2009.

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Manifesto

A healthy society is only possible when individuals equip themselves and their environment with a healthy lifestyle. As Health Promotion and Health Policy Association, we are committed to empowering individuals and raising public awareness for health protection and promotion. Our main goal is to create health policies based on scientific knowledge and experience, to disseminate them with equal access to every individual and to root the right health behaviors in every segment of society.

A healthy life as a society is possible with the contribution of not only individuals but also the whole environment. We believe that a society in which everyone has access to the right to a healthy life will be a future in which conscious, informed and active individuals take part and a culture of healthy living is adopted. Health is a multidimensional structure that needs to be supported by education, environment and economic factors. In this context, we aim to produce empowering policies to support the health of individuals and to create a structure that will facilitate healthier choices at the societal level.

We are committed to mobilizing the community to build the healthy society of the future, to join forces through collaborations and to provide solutions that will make health a priority for all segments of society. Now is the time to take action together for a healthy future!