cq4; ottawa charter

Question 1

What are the action areas of the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 1

• Developing Personal Skills
• Creating Supportive Environments
• Strengthening Community Action
• Reorienting Health Services
• Building Healthy Public Policy

Question 2

What is Developing personal skills?

Answer 2

Improving the knowledge and skill of individuals → able to make informed decisions regarding their health + be a positive influence for surrounding people → empowers independence of health

Question 3

What are examples of developing personal skills?

Answer 3

• Compulsory K-10 PDHPE lessons
• Tackling Tobacco Training
• Connected Beginnings (Close the Gap)

Question 4

How do Compulsory K-10 PDHPE lessons develop personal skills?

Answer 4

Compulsory K-10 PDHPE lessons aimed at improving health literacy and knowledge to influence decisions regarding risk factors such as smoking.

Question 5

How do compulsory K-10 PDHPE lessons promote social justice?

Answer 5

• Available for ALL students across AUS, addressing horizontal equity.
• It has a focus on vertical equity by targeting ATSI groups with specific campaigns based on their needs

Question 6

How does Tackling Tobacco Training develop personal skills?

Answer 6

Online programs set by the Cancer Council help to increase an individual’s skills to help influence them and the people around them to “deliver smoking cessation support” in the workplace

Question 7

How do Connected Beginnings develop personal skills and close the gap?

Answer 7

Designed to help ATSI children get ready for school at a young age, encouraging them to continue their education.

Question 8

How do Connected Beginnings promote social justice?

Answer 8

Adresses equity through providing more of an incentive to seek education compared to others as the ATSI population needs these programs to encourage a further pursuit of their education and increased health literacy.

Question 9

What is creating supportive environments?

Answer 9

Supportive environments offer people protection from factors that affect good health and increases the chance of an individual being able to make positive changes to health.

The environment can either create barriers or help break down barriers in optimal conditions

Question 10

What are examples of creating supportive environments?

Answer 10

• ICANQUIT and NSW Quitline
• Smoke free zones
• Aboriginal Quitline

Question 11

How does ICANQUIT and NSW Quitline create supportive environments?

Answer 11

Provide support networks and workplace programs, practical strategies and self-help techniques where individuals feel they are supported to overcome the temptation of smoking.

Question 12

How does ICANQUIT and NSW Quitline promote social justice?

Answer 12

Provides a supportive environment

Question 13

How do Smoke free zones create supportive environments?

Answer 13

Make it more difficult for smokers to smoke, incentivising them not to smoke while also lowering the chance of the community inhaling second hand smoke.

Question 14

How does the Aboriginal Quitline create supportive environments and close the gap?

Answer 14

Provides ATSI with Aboriginal operators who provide support and tips to help people overcome the addiction of smoking.

Question 15

How does the Aboriginal Quitline promote social justice?

Answer 15

Provides a support group to ATSI people that they can connect with, allowing them to gain access to ways to improve health.

Question 16

What is strengthening community action?

Answer 16

Communities being involved in the health promotion process including the planning and implementation of health initiatives in the community

Question 17

What are examples of strengthening community action?

Answer 17

• NTS, ATSI participation
• “Don’t make smokes your story” campaign
• IPA program

Question 18

How does NTS, ATSI participation strengthen community action?

Answer 18

Within the NTS, they focus on working in partnership with ATSI elders by creating and promoting development strategies.

Question 19

How does NTS, ATSI participation promote social justice?

Answer 19

Addresses diversity as specific needs of ATSI are addressed

Question 20

How does the “Don’t make smokes your story” campaign strengthen community action?

Answer 20

Offers a mixed approach to encourage ATSI people to quit smoking, with advertisements on the harm of smoking in the media (advertisments, posters and radio).

Question 21

What is the IPA program?

Answer 21

Aims to preserve ATSI land and protect their identity by;
- identifying and restricting ATSI land to the public
- discussing with ATSI on how the land should be used
- teaching both ATSI and Non-ATSI people on the culture and history of the land.

Question 22

How does the IPA program strengthen community action and close the gap?

Answer 22

Helps increase mental health of ATSI population through the community’s restoration of their identity through their land while also including the community in making decisions in regards to the land, thus establishing a stronger connection with the community.

Question 23

How does the IPA program promote social justice?

Answer 23

Addresses diversity as it provides the ATSI people with the recognition and respect they deserve, making an attempt to counteract the abuse and the oppression the ATSI people faced over the past few years.

Question 24

What is reorienting health services?

Answer 24

Encouraging the health sector to move beyond its traditional role of providing curative services but calling for changes in professional education and training.

Question 25

What are examples of reorienting health services?

Answer 25

• GP referrals
• Prescription of life scripts
• NDSS

Question 26

How do GP referrals reorient health services

Answer 26

GP referrals in low SES areas to Quitline and other smoking interventions that target inequities of the high prevalence of smoking in the low SES community.

Question 27

How do GP referrals promote social justice?

Answer 27

Addresses all the principles of social justice as it targets the vertical equity of priority population groups, while also addressing the diverse needs of that community and finally helping to make a supportive environment for them.

Question 28

How do the prescription of life scripts reorient health services?

Answer 28

Allow for an individual to gain innovative ways to quit smoking before the effects take place (prevention over cure)

Question 29

How does the NDSS reorient health services and close the gap?

Answer 29

It is an organisation that provides ATSI individuals online programs, teaching people about the causes, symptoms and effects of type 1 and 2 diabetes.

Question 30

How does the NDSS address social justice principles?

Answer 30

Addresses equity as it provides people with info that can have a significant impact on their lifestyle and provide services to those with specific needs

Question 31

What is building healthy public policy?

Answer 31

Refers to all levels of govt. implementing legislation and fiscal measures to promote better health, directing individuals to be aware of the health consequences of their decisions and to accept their responsibility for health.

Question 32

What are examples of building healthy public policy?

Answer 32

• High tax on cigarettes
• Plain and graphic packaging
• PBS co-payment programs

Question 33

How does high tax on cigarettes build healthy public policy?

Answer 33

The 65% tax is aimed at new smokers to prevent them from furthering their addiction, changing their attitude towards smoking.

Question 34

How do high taxes on cigarettes address social justice principles?

Answer 34

It creates an environment that supports individuals to make healthy choices.

Question 34

How does plain and graphic packaging build healthy public policy?

Answer 34

Prevents people from marketing cigarettes while also informing people on the dangers of smoking thus preventing its use (addresses diversity)

Question 35

How do PBS co-payment programs build healthy public policy and close the gap?

Answer 35

Designed to increase the access ATSI individuals have to afford medicines used to treat chronic illnesses

ATSI will now only be required to pay the concessional rate for pbs co-payment and those who pay the concessional rate normally will receive medicine for free

Question 36

How do PBS co-payments address social justice principles?

Answer 36

Supports equity by providing the ATSI population with cheaper access to medicine, due to their higher need compared to the rest of the population (vertical equity)