DYUTI 2023 is a three-day International Conference from January 11th - 13th, 2023, aimed at bringing together scholars, academicians and practitioners to deliberate on Global Perspectives and Practices based on health promotion.This Health Promotion Conference would provide a platform to discuss the current developments and models in the field of Health Promotion. Health promotion is a comprehensive process directed towards enabling people to take action and it is done by, with and for people either as individuals or as groups. The conference would explore the avenues to strengthen the skills and capabilities of individuals to take action and the capacity of groups or communities to act collectively to exert control over the determinants of health and achieve positive change.

About DYUTI
Developmental Yearning for a United and Transformed India
Rajagiri with its vision of ‘becoming a centre of excellence in learning for enriching and fulfilling LIFE’ has been regularly providing an annual forum for deliberations on vital issues of development from a Rights perspective. This annual series of deliberation (started in 1998) is named DYUTI meaning ‘Spark of Life’. Dyuti 2023 is the 23rd in it’s series.

The Theme of DYUTI 2023 Conference
Health is a resource for life which enables people to lead individually, socially and economically productive lives and it is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources (physical, mental and spiritual). There are certain prerequisites for health which include peace, adequate economic resources (and their distribution), food and shelter, clean water, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resource use, and access to basic human rights. The recognition of these prerequisites highlights the links between social and economic conditions, structural changes, the physical environment, individual lifestyles and health.

This Health Promotion Conference would provide a platform to discuss the current developments and models in the field of Health Promotion. Health promotion is a comprehensive process directed towards enabling people to take action and it is done by, with and for people either as individuals or as groups. The conference would explore the avenues to strengthen the skills and capabilities of individuals to take action and the capacity of groups or communities to act collectively to exert control over the determinants of health and achieve positive change. This will aim at developing personal skills, strengthening community action, and creating supportive environments for health, backed by healthy public policy.

Thus, this health promotion conference focus on actions directed at determinants of health such as, peace, adequate economic resources, food and shelter, clean water, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resource use, and access to basic human rights, which is summarized in terms of social and economic conditions, structural changes, the physical environment, individual lifestyles and health.