Chapter 5.6 - Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion

Question 1

What is health promotion?

Answer 1

enabling people to take control over, and improve their health

Question 2

3 strategies for health promotion?

Answer 2

• Advocate
• Mediate
• Enable

Question 3

Advocate

Answer 3

Aims to speak on behalf of groups who do not have the same opportunities as the rest of the population; so that many factors influence health are favourable as possible
- social media campaigns
- publishing research

Question 4

Enable

Answer 4

Aims to provide people with the knowledge and skills required to take over, and improve their health
- access to education
- access to resources (housing, food)
- empowering people through campaigns

Question 5

Mediate

Answer 5

Aims to work with all groups to ensure greatest health achievements can be made (resolve conflict and improve health incomes) (different groups in society have different priorities)
- changes to funding
- legislation & laws (reducing speed limits around schools)

Question 6

Action Areas of the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 6

• Building healthy public policy
• Create supportive environments
• Strengthen community action
• Develop personal skills
• Reorient health services

Question 7

Building healthy public policy

Answer 7

Law & policies can be made by governments and non-government organisations that promote health
- seatbelt laws
- no hat, no play

Question 8

Create supportive environments

Answer 8

Sociocultural and physical environments should be manipulated so that healthier choices are made easier
- reducing the price of fresh food
- installing bicycle paths

Question 9

Strengthen community actions

Answer 9

Maximum benefits to health are achieved when all groups work together to achieve a common goal. Government and non-government and the private sector work together to promote health
- road safety illustrates this action area

Question 10

Develop personal skills

Answer 10

This area is concerned with education. When people have the skills to improve their health and wellbeing, they are more likely to do so
- teaching people how to select and prepare health foods

Question 11

Reorient health services

Answer 11

Change focus to health promotion instead of just focusing on treating the disease
eg: health professionals, members of public
- doctors prescribing exercise before a person has a heart attack

Question 12

What is the Ottawa Health Charter?

Answer 12

Aims to assist government and non-government organisations in implementing the social model of health