Ottawa Charter ACTION AREAS

Question 1

Ottawa Charter action area B

Answer 1

Build healthy public policy

Question 2

Ottawa Charter action area S

Answer 2

Strengthen community action

Question 3

Ottawa Charter action area C

Answer 3

Create supportive environments

Question 4

Ottawa Charter action area D

Answer 4

Develop personal skills

Question 5

Ottawa Charter action area R

Answer 5

Reorient health services

Question 6

Describe OC AA Build healthy public policy

Answer 6

Decisions made by governments and organisations regarding laws and policies that make it more difficult for people to undertake unhealthy behaviours and seek to make “healthier choices easier choices”.

Question 7

Describe OC AA Create supportive environments

Answer 7

Recognises the impact broader determinants have on health and aims to promote healthy physical and sociocultural environments; a supportive environment is safe, stimulating and satisfying.
(building links between individuals and their environment)

Question 8

Strengthen community action

Answer 8

Building links between individuals and the community; communities working together to achieve a common goal. Giving community sense of ownership of a health related strategy and working together can increase the likelihood of effectiveness

Question 9

Develop personal skills

Answer 9

Educate people with health related knowledge and skills that allow people to make informed health decisions.

Question 10

Reorient health services

Answer 10

Changing the health system so that it promotes health and wellbeing rather than just focusing on diagnosing and treating illness (biomedical model). Addressing all factors that influence health and wellbeing, not just diseases, requires a shift towards health promotion e.g. drs taking on the role of educators, active script.

Question 11

What acronym is used to help us remember the action areas of the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 11

BCSDR
(Bad Cats Smell Dead Rats)