Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion ( in the original English: Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion) is a document that was published at the conclusion of the First International Conference on Health Promotion by the World Health Organization ( WHO) in Ottawa, Canada on 21 November 1986. It is considered one of the follow-up documents of the Declaration of Alma- Ata (1978 ) on primary health care as part of the " Health for All " strategy of the WHO.

The Charter provides a substantive and methodological integration model to apply different strategies of health education, health education, health education, health counseling, health self-help and preventive medicine and develop. Your health policy model is also described as a shift from disease prevention to promote health. This requires new priorities for action, in particular a strong orientation to the political organization of health-related factors and environmental conditions.

The Ottawa Charter describes three basic strategies and identified five priority areas for action:

Action strategies

  • Advocacy for Health ( advocate ): commitment to health by influencing political, biological and social factors
  • Empower and Enable (enable): Competence development with the aim to reduce differences in health status and to realize fullest health potential
  • Transfer and Networking ( mediate ): Cooperation with all stakeholders within and outside the health

Fields of action

  • Development of healthy public policy

( Considering all promoting and hindering factors in the political and administrative )

  • Create health -promoting lifestyles

( Create Supportive environmental conditions, so as to promote resources for health )

  • Health-related Community actions

(Strengthening of local activities, strengthening of citizens and patients, in order to promote self-help )

  • Developing personal skills

( Fundamentally, health education, but with the addition to comply with the personal and social skills more)

  • Orient health services re-

( Expectation of the health services: more self- understanding and orientation to the personal needs of people as a whole person )

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