Health promotion is “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health” and the issues that are identified as important health determinants (WHO, 1986). The overarching goal of health promotion is to achieve health for all, and to enhance individual and societal well-being. To move us toward this outcome, the field has developed an ethical and theoretical body of knowledge regarding the holism of health and its determinants (Rootman and Goodstadt, 1996). At a more practical level, this philosophical approach is supported by a wide variety of tools and techniques that may be categorized according to the five action areas identified in the Ottawa Charter: developing of personal skill; strengthening community action; creating and supporting healthy environments; building healthy public policy; and reorienting health services. Health promotion strategies are complementary and effective at the individual, organizational and community levels.