Ottawa Charter

Question 1

How many Ottawa charter recommendations are there?

Answer 1

5

Question 2

Build Healthy Public Policy’s

Answer 2

This action area puts health on the agenda of policy makers and helps citizen lead healthy lives by legislating healthy behaviours or banning healthy ones.

Question 3

Create supportive environments

Answer 3

The approach to health promotion calls upon us “to take care of each other, our communities and our natural environment

Question 4

Strengthen community action

Answer 4

Community development draws on existing human and material resources in the community to enhance self-help and social support, and to develop flexible systems for strengthening public participation in and direction of health matters.

Question 5

Develop Personal Skills

Answer 5

Enabling people to learn, throughout life, to prepare themselves for all of its stages and to cope with chronic illness and injuries is essential.

Question 6

Reorient Health Services

Answer 6

calls upon the health sector to become involved in health promotion initiatives that seek to prevent illness, improve health and avoid disease.