Week 8 - Reading: Okanagan Charter Flashcards
What do health promoting universities and colleges aim to transform?
- Societies
How do health promoting universities and colleges aim to transform societies?
- Integrate health into operations, practices, and academic mandates
What do health promoting universities and colleges seek to foster?
- Campus cultures focused on well-being, equity, and social justice
What do health promoting universities and colleges aim to enhance?
- Sustainability of communities and wider society
What does the Okanagan Charter aim to guide?
- Action
What does the Okanagan Charter aim to generate?
- Dialogue and research
What does the Okanagan Charter aim to mobilize?
- International, cross-sector collaboration
What does the Okanagan Charter aim to advance?
- Health promotion in higher education
What does the Okanagan Charter build upon?
- The 2005 Edmonton Charter
What does the Okanagan Charter provide?
- Framework for promoting health in universities and colleges
What does health promotion emphasize?
- The interconnectedness between individuals and their environments
What does health promotion advocate for?
- Proactive approach beyond individual behaviour, engaging social and environmental interventions to address health determinants
Who is responsible for health promotion?
- All Sectors
What does health promotion emphasize?
- Health
- Equity
- Social Justice
- Sustainability
Who plays a central role in promoting health and well-being locally and globally?
- Higher education institutions
What are the 2 calls for action from the Okanagan Charter?
- Embed health into all aspects of campus culture
- Lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally
What are the 6 Guiding Principles of the Okanagan Charter?
- holistic approaches
- Engage stakeholders
- collaborations
- evidence-informed action
- Value local and indigenous communities’ contexts and priorities
- right to health, social justice and equity
What international organizations were a part of the Okanagan Charter?
- WHO
- PAHO
- UNESCO
Researchers, practitioners, administrators, students, and policymakers from how many countries informed the development of the Okanagan Charter?
- 45
What does the Okanagan Charter aim to do?
- Inspire further action towards creating health promoting universities and colleges
How does the Okanagan Charter aim to inspire further action towards creating health promoting universities and colleges?
- Through dissemination, network building, and future conferences
What is the adoption and implementation of the Okanagan Charter internationally expected to do?
- Advance health promotion efforts in higher education
