Аннотация:their source be mentioned, even though I am frequently motivated (and frustrated) to think “But we said that years ago in the Charter....” The generation that developed the the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion set out to classify what it takes to address public health in modern societies, not only in the 20 but even more so in the health society of the 21 century (Kickbush, 2007). I still maintain that the document was very much ahead of its time and that its full importance and potential has not yet been fully recognized. When teaching or lecturing on health promotion I need to remind myself all the time that many of my students were not yet in primary school when we met during those cold days in November 1986 in Ottawa. The future of the Ottawa Charter lies with them – in my view it has not yet really come.
