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World Health • SOth Yeor, No. 3, Moy-June 1997 31 WHO publications Publications con be ordered from Distribution and Soles, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Health promotion and community action for health in developing countries person's health depends on a number of factors. Among them are lifestyle and behaviour. Health promotion encourages individuals to adopt healthy lifestyles and encourages communities to take action that supports health. This book outtines an approach to health promotion that is based on a three-part strategy: advocating public policies that support health, empowering people to make decisions for health, and giving social support for health. Case studies from around the world give ample evidence that health begins not with the medical practitioner but with the community, and that if health for all is to become a reality the focus must be on people rather than on technology. Health promotion and community action for health in developing countries {ISBN 92 4 156167 X) costs Sw.fr. 25. -/US $22.50 {Sw.fr 17.50 in developing countries). Creating supportive environments for health he International Conference on Health Promotion, held in Sundsvall, Sweden, in 1991, was the first global conference to focus directly on the interdependence of health and the environment in all its aspects. Taking as its theme "Supportive environments for health", the conference called on people in all parts of the world to help make environments - physical, social, economic and political - more supportive to health. This book outlines the principles on which action aimed at creating supportive environments must be based. Stories provided by the conference delegates illustrate practical approaches and provide a broad range of examples of efforts to bring about a healthier environment. Creating supportive environments for health {ISBN 92 4 156 I 80 7) costs Sw.fr. 50-/US $ 45.00 {Sw.fr. 35.- in developing countries). First global report on tobacco and its damage to health he use of tobacco kills millions of people every year and ruins the health of millions more. The damage to health is so severe and so widespread that it has been compared to the effects of a worldwide epidemic. Tobacco or health: a global status report is a unique compilation of dota on tobacco and its impact on health in 190 countries. It is a resource of economic, social, legal and health information that will be of use to all who are concerned to reduce the toll of death and ill-health that is attributable to tobacco. The first part of the book is a global overview of tobacco products, the prevalence of smoking in different areas and populations, tobacco consumption, the tobacco industry, health effects, and tobacco control measures. The second part gives this information in detail for all Member States of WHO. The country profiles include data on demographic characteristics, the socioeconomic situation, health status, tobacco production and trade, tobacco use, and tobacco-related deaths. Tobecco or health: a global status report {ISBN 92 4 156 I 84 XJ costs Sw.fr. 155.-/US $139.50 {Sw.fr. I 08.50 in developing countries). Europe plans to cut harm from alcohol lcohol production and trade are big business in WHO's European Region. Drinking alcohol is an accepted part of life for many people, but harmful drinking has high costs both to health and to society. The promotion of healthy lifestyles and environments is a major concern to the Region. The European Region promotes policies to reduce harmful alcohol consumption and the European Alcohol Action Plan has been endorsed by Member States. WHO's Regional Office for Europe has issued 10 publications to support the action plan: Evaluation and monitoring of action on alcohol, Approaches to alcohol control policy, The economics of alcohol policy, Alcohol and the media, Community and municipal action on alcohol, Alcohol and primary health care, Treatment approaches to alcohol problems, Young people and alcohol, drugs and tobacco, Alcohol and the workplace, and Alcohol - less is better. These books ore WHO Regional Publications {European Series, Nos. 59-67 and No. 70). They are available in English. French, Spanish and Russian versions are in preparation. In the next issue Did you enjoy this issue? Why not take out a subscription lo World Heolth and enjoy reading about the world's major heolth issues six times a year. 1997 subscription prices ore listed below. Ensuring that old age is a product ive and enioyable period of life is a challenge to hea lth promotion at a time when li fe expectancy is increasing world - w ide. The Ju ly-August 1997 issue of World Health will give examples of what individua ls, com mun ities and countries can do to encourage healthy lifestyles and promote active ageing throughout the world. WHO olso offers its popular "Health Horizons" subscription, a combined subscription lot a reduced role) lo World Heolth and the quarterly World Heolth Forum. Order form D World Health 11997 subscription) at Sw. fr. 30-/US $25.00 D Health Horizons 11997 subscription) at Sw. fr. 90 -/US $72.00 D Payment enclosed D Please charge to my credi t cord D Visa D American Express D Eurocord/Moslercord/ Access Cord number _________ _ Expiry dote ___ Dote of order __ _ Signature _________ _ Nome __________ _ Address __________ _ World Health Organization, Distribution and Soles, 121 l Geneva 27, Switzerland. Printed in Great Britain by GreenShires Print limited, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.