What actions are needed to address Australia's health priorities?

Question 1

What are the areas of the Ottawa charter?

Answer 1

Developing personal skills - Information, education, life skills

Creating supportive environments - Link between people’s health and environment

Strengthening community action - Communities involvement setting priorities, making decisions, planning strategies and implementing them to improve health

Reorienting health services - Shift systems to improve health outcomes

Building healthy public policy - Policy development to promote health.

Question 2

What is government responsibility?

Answer 2

• Creating and maintaining policies
• Planning and implementation of policies
• Engage with communities
• Develop polices and funding
• Fund and research reorientation of policies

Question 3

What are community responsibilities?

Answer 3

• Contribute towards development of policies
• Help maintain healthy and safe environments
• Run education and training programs
• Conduct research

Question 4

What are individuals responsibilities

Answer 4

• Act in accordance to policies
• Make better health choices
• Promote activities that promote health
• Develop personal health skills
• Make healthy life choices

Question 5

Benefits of health promotion based on individuals, communities and governments partnership

Answer 5

• Ensures effective improved health outcomes
• Addresses the needs of individuals and communities
• More efficient health promotion

Question 6

Closing the gap and Ottawa Charter

Answer 6

Build - Close gap of health inequities between ASTI and Non-ATSI
Strengthen - Involving ATSI community in local and regional events
Develop - Increase ATSI education levels
Reorient - Prevent and promote balance healthy lifestyle

Question 7

Ottawa charter and road safety

Answer 7

Build - Road safety courses, further testing for driver training
Create - Road crossing, speeding campaigns
Strengthening - Community based organisation to change attitudes towards speeding
Develop - Graduated Licensing Scheme improves the knowledge and driving ability of young drivers and school education programs on road safety aims to protect children and long-term safe behaviours.
Reorient- Slow down roadshow education program about consequences of speeding