Ottawa Charter

Question 1

What is the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 1

Developed during the 1st Internationa Conference on Health Promotion in Ottawa, 1986, the Ottawa Charter for action aims to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond.

Recognises that improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these prerequisites:

• Advocate
• Enable
• Mediate

Question 2

What are the 5 components of the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 2

1. Develop personal skills
2. Create supportive environments
3. Strengthen community action
4. Reorient health services
5. Build healthy public policy

Question 3

What is Developing Personal Skills?

Answer 3

Support personal and social development through:
* Information
* Education for health
* Enhancing lifes schools

Facilitated in school, home, work, community.

E.g. Accessible information and education, mass media campaigns

Question 4

What is Creating Supportive Environments?

Answer 4

Seeks to create environments (physical, social, online) such that the healthier choice is the easier choice.

E.g. smoke-free zones in public, alcohol-free communities, health star ratings

Question 5

What is Strengthening Community Action?

Answer 5

Draws on human and material resources in the community to enhance self-help and social supprt. Empowerment of communities.

E.g. Community-led support groups and programs, community workshops/events, community gardens, advocacy groups e.g. Mothers against alcohol advertising.

Question 6

What is Reorienting Health Services?

Answer 6

Health services moving beyond clinical and curative services that are sensitive and respect cultural needs

E.g. Professional education and training to change attitudes, aids/tools for clinicians to promote health, culturally approriate services, research

Question 7

What is Building Healthy Public Policy?

Answer 7

Health on the agenda of policy-makers in all sectors, at all levels. I.e. Health in All Policies - make the healthier choice the easier choice for policy-makers as well

E.g. legislation and regulation, bans on smoking in public places, advertising, taxation, packaging, point of sale; banning food marketing to children

Question 8

Give examples of some Aboriginal Health programs adopting Ottawa Charter lens.

Answer 8

Learn Earn Legend - Indigenous education program empowering Aboriginal youth to finish high school and pursue higher education or full-time employment. Literacy, numeracy, so they can get a job and be a legend for themselves, family and community.

2 Spirits Program - ‘whole of community approach’ to improve sexual health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through education, prevention, health promotion and community development activities.

Be Deadly, Get Healthy Program - exercise program to improve health of families and reduce chronic disease in Aboriginal communities.

**Feedin’ the Mob **- nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle project for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Targets teens, parents, carers, people with chronic illness. Community garden, cooking classes, info sharin, primary healthcare and prevention of chronic disease.

Aboriginal Quitline - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander counsellers to empower First Nations people who want to quit smoking or vaping.

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