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Ottawa Charter Thursday, October 10, 2024 9:51 AM Core principles in health promotion are equity, social justice, participation and partnership The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provides the framework to identify how and wher address the determinants of health for whole communities and pop...

Ottawa Charter Thursday, October 10, 2024 9:51 AM Core principles in health promotion are equity, social justice, participation and partnership The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provides the framework to identify how and wher address the determinants of health for whole communities and populations Five Strands of Ottawa Charter 1. Building healthy public policy 2. Creating supportive environments 3. Strengthening community action 4. Developing personal skills 5. Reorientating the health service Building Healthy Public Policy (upstream) e.g transport, education, finances, smoking etc - Focuses on all policy that impacts on health, not only healthy policy - Underlying principle in equity - Impact at environment/ population level - Range of policy instruments available for Government - Communities and health professionals have a range of strategies available to impact o - Can involve central government, local government, policy makers, taxation policy etc Creating Supportive Environments (midstream) - Environment- both physical and social - Physical: ecology, urban and regional planning, health impacts of new technologies, pr harms an encouraging healthy action etc - Social: the 'climate'- community and family life, work, leisure, societal norms, culture, social norms etc - The basic principle is to provide an environment which 'makes the healthy choice the e Strengthening Community Action (midstream)- about literally working WITH the community - Health promotion should begin an end in the community - Work through community action to identify need, plan, and implement - Community groups control their own endeavours - Underlying principle is Empowerment - Requires partnership approach by health professionals- health professionals need to le work with/ for/ in communities and the Te Tiriti (holistic partnership) - Requires access to information, learning, support an funding - Starting at their strengths and actions already present e.g capacity building community development, where the community develops their own endeavours  - Requires partnership approach by health professionals- health professionals need to le work with/ for/ in communities and the Te Tiriti (holistic partnership) - Requires access to information, learning, support an funding - Starting at their strengths and actions already present e.g capacity building community development, where the community develops their own endeavours Developing Personal skills (downstream) - Basic principle is to enable individual and community to have more control over their o and settings through: ○ Information, education, life skills, health literacy (giving communities and individ capacity to have control over their lives through goof information) - The concept of resilience (bounce back ability) is implicit - Supports personal and social development by providing education and information on - Can occur in many settings - Can't be used in isolation - All about a person's capacity, skills, education (classic health education) Reorientating the Health Service (midstream)- it is about encouraging people to be well, not their wellness (prevention and decision making) - Health services & community work together in pursuit of health rather than focus only curative services ○ Increase citizen participation in health services- being part of governance, plann evaluation ○ Increase public access to information ○ Move health care systems and personnel away from § Only treating disease § The 'victim- blaming' ideology § Only working with each other and not communities ○ Encourage health service deliverers to focus on health promotion