Week 8 - Reading: Okanagan Charter

Question 1

What do health promoting universities and colleges aim to transform?

Answer 1

• Societies

Question 2

How do health promoting universities and colleges aim to transform societies?

Answer 2

• Integrate health into operations, practices, and academic mandates

Question 3

What do health promoting universities and colleges seek to foster?

Answer 3

• Campus cultures focused on well-being, equity, and social justice

Question 4

What do health promoting universities and colleges aim to enhance?

Answer 4

• Sustainability of communities and wider society

Question 5

What does the Okanagan Charter aim to guide?

Answer 5

• Action

Question 6

What does the Okanagan Charter aim to generate?

Answer 6

• Dialogue and research

Question 7

What does the Okanagan Charter aim to mobilize?

Answer 7

• International, cross-sector collaboration

Question 8

What does the Okanagan Charter aim to advance?

Answer 8

• Health promotion in higher education

Question 9

What does the Okanagan Charter build upon?

Answer 9

• The 2005 Edmonton Charter

Question 10

What does the Okanagan Charter provide?

Answer 10

• Framework for promoting health in universities and colleges

Question 11

What does health promotion emphasize?

Answer 11

• The interconnectedness between individuals and their environments

Question 12

What does health promotion advocate for?

Answer 12

• Proactive approach beyond individual behaviour, engaging social and environmental interventions to address health determinants

Question 13

Who is responsible for health promotion?

Answer 13

• All Sectors

Question 14

What does health promotion emphasize?

Answer 14

• Health
• Equity
• Social Justice
• Sustainability

Question 15

Who plays a central role in promoting health and well-being locally and globally?

Answer 15

• Higher education institutions

Question 16

What are the 2 calls for action from the Okanagan Charter?

Answer 16

• Embed health into all aspects of campus culture
• Lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally

Question 17

What are the 6 Guiding Principles of the Okanagan Charter?

Answer 17

• holistic approaches
• Engage stakeholders
• collaborations
• evidence-informed action
• Value local and indigenous communities’ contexts and priorities
• right to health, social justice and equity

Question 18

What international organizations were a part of the Okanagan Charter?

Answer 18

• WHO
• PAHO
• UNESCO

Question 19

Researchers, practitioners, administrators, students, and policymakers from how many countries informed the development of the Okanagan Charter?

Answer 19

• 45

Question 20

What does the Okanagan Charter aim to do?

Answer 20

• Inspire further action towards creating health promoting universities and colleges

Question 21

How does the Okanagan Charter aim to inspire further action towards creating health promoting universities and colleges?

Answer 21

• Through dissemination, network building, and future conferences

Question 22

What is the adoption and implementation of the Okanagan Charter internationally expected to do?

Answer 22

• Advance health promotion efforts in higher education