Ottawa Charter inc. STRATEGIES

Question 1

Ottawa Charter strategy M

Answer 1

Mediate

Question 2

Ottawa Charter strategy A

Answer 2

Advocate

Question 3

Ottawa Charter strategy E

Answer 3

Enable

Question 4

Describe OC strategy ‘enable’

Answer 4

Relates to a focus on achieving equity in health; aims to ensure the availability of equal opportunities and resources to enable all people to achieve optimal health and wellbeing/their full health potential by empowering people to control the factors that determine their health.

Question 5

Describe OC strategy ‘advocate’

Answer 5

Actions designed to gain support from governments and societies that are necessary to improve health and wellbeing for everyone by outlining the importance of good health to involve health considerations in decision making.

Question 6

Describe OC strategy ‘mediate’

Answer 6

Relates to helping different groups/sectors resolve conflict regarding competing priorities (e.g. funding, legislation, policies, business, politics) to produce outcomes that promote health and wellbeing

Question 7

Describe the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion

Answer 7

‘An approach to health developed by the WHO that aims to reduce inequalities in health. It reflects the Social Model of Health and provides five actions areas that can be used as a basis for improving health status, all of which are centred around three strategies for health promotion which are enabling, mediating and advocacy’

Question 8

Define ‘health promotion’

Answer 8

“process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health”