A socio environmental approach to health promotion is founded on the evidence that health is affected by many factors outside the sphere of traditional health care. In this approach, concern is redirected from behavioural risk factors to socioenvironmental risk conditions. Risk conditions refer to socioenvironmental factors that deny individuals or groups of people access to the prerequisites for health. As defined by the World Health Organization, these prerequisites include “peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, social justice and equity” (1986).