Action Areas of The Ottawa Charter
Five action areas for health promotion were identified in the charter:
- Building healthy public policy
- Create supportive environments
- Strengthening community action
- Developing personal skills
- Re-orientating health care services toward prevention of illness and promotion of health
The basic strategies for health promotion were prioritized as:
- Advocate: Health is a resource for social and developmental means, thus the dimensions that affect these factors must be changed to encourage health.
- Enable: Health equity must be reached where individuals must become empowered to control the determinants that affect their health, such that they are able to reach the highest attainable quality of life.
- Mediate: Health promotion cannot be achieved by the health sector alone; rather its success will depend on the collaboration of all sectors of government (social, economic, etc.) as well as independent organizations (media, industry, etc.).
Read more about this topic: Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion
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