This first publication of health promotion is from the 1974 Lalonde report from the Government of Canada, which contained a health promotion strategy "aimed at informing, influencing and assisting both individuals and organizations so that they will accept more responsibility and be more active in matters affecting mental and physical health". Another predecessor of the definition was the 1979 "Healthy People" report of the Surgeon General of the United States, which noted that health promotion "seeks the development of community and individual measures which can help... to develop lifestyles that can maintain and enhance the state of well-being".