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The Ottawa Charter (World Health Organisation, 1986) stated that ‘health is created and lived by the people within the settings of their everyday life: where they learn, play, work and love’. According to Kickbusch (2003), the key strategic point of the settings approach was to move health promotion away from focusing on individual behaviours and communities at risk, to developing a strategy that covers a total population within a given setting. This is followed on by the idea that an effective and sustainable public health strategy must reduce the risk of the majority of individuals, not only those most at risk (Rose, 1992). Thus the target of intervention therefore moves from individuals or groups of individuals to their environments, the ‘settings’ of everyday life. The idea of health promotion operating in a context beyond the individual is one that has found increasing popularity over the years (Whitelaw, 2001). This emphasis on context has been reflected in the abundance of related terms for example, ‘settings for health’ (Baric,