“…A literature review, from 2000-present, using the keywords sustainability and health promotion, and conducted in three languages, English, Portuguese, and Spanish (within PubMED, LILAS, and SCIELO), found a range of technical functions to support sustainability, such as planning skills, assessments of impact, resources, organizational capacity and practices, institutional standards, and professional motivation (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8). The literature on political dimensions focused on governance, the accountability of governmental bodies to the public; and the creation of intergovernmental systems that involve government workers, community members, and elected officials in the intersection of healthy policy development, and which aid or interfere with continuity of health promotion programs and policies (9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16). Within political dimensions, the role of intersectoral networks and coalitions at the community level is highlighted, with their capacity to promote sustainability through collaborative actions targeting health policy change well-articulated in the WHO Adelaide statement on 'health in all policies' (17).…”