The Ottawa Charter - created from Mind Map

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Action areas

Developing personal skills

Creating supportive environments

Strengthening Community action

Reorienting health services

Building public health policy

Personal and social development occurs through the provision of information for health and the enhancement of life skills

This increases options in the control over your own health e.g planning, problem solving, goal setting etc

These skills lead to:

Develops a greater capacity to respond to changes and adjustments that occur in health.

The ability to seek information

Individual enpowerment

Autonomy

Focuses on the places where people live, work and play.

The ability to make decisions within these settings

Example: Healthy school canteens

Alcohol free zones within the community

Focus is on the empowerment of communities to identify and implement actions to address their health concerns.

Communities need to work together to set health priorities, make decisions, plan strategies and implement them leading to greater ownership and control over health promotion services

Example: Schools, workplaces and local government (NSW government, live life well campaign).

Focuses on the well being of the whole person - promotion health, preventing ill health and supporting well being.

Reorienting-adjusting the direction/focus of a service to create a fresh approach.

Example: Health professionals working with and supporting schools in health promotion initiatives such as jump rope for heart.

Relates to decisions made at all levels of government and by organisations that work towards health improvement.

Goes beyond the health sector - includes legislation, policies, taxes and organisational change in areas such as education, welfare, recreation etc.

Co-ordinated action helps to make healthier choices in our working and living environments

Example: Food packaging labels, legislation on smoking in public places, school policy in relation to sun safety.

Prerequisites for health

Basic necessities for health

Health is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources aswell as physical capabilities

Peace

Shelter

Education

Food

Income

Stable ecosystem

Sustainable resources

Equity

Social justice

Health promotion

Process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health

Allowing them to reach a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing/

Health is a positive concept emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.

Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy lifestyles to well-being.

The Ottawa Charter