About HPO:
Active since 1987, HPO is a network of Health Promotion practitioners working in the province of Ontario, Canada. Our members are employed in Public Health Units, Health Promotion Resource Centres and Community Health Centres throughout the province.
Mission Statement:
Health Promotion Ontario encourages and supports the development of public health activities based in health promotion philosophy, process and research.
Definition of Health Promotion
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. This process is based on the understanding that social conditions and personal actions both determine health. Hence, health promotion activities move beyond disease prevention and health education to address social change, institutional change and community change in addition to changes in personal behaviours.