PHAR4823 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Health Promotion, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Health Equity

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Health promotion describes activities designed to improve health and prevent disease, often by helping individuals and communities to increase control over the determinants of health. The who ottawa charter for health promotion recognised the role of health promotion in achieving health for all. It identified several action areas including: developing healthy public policy, for example, through legislation, taxation and organisational change, with a strong focus on achieving health equity. Reorienting health services toward health promotion rather than disease treatment. Creating physical and social environments that support and encourage good health. Strengthening community actions and developing personal skills to empower groups and individuals to take ownership of their health and act to improve it. Challenges in health promotion: key to success lies in change, need to facilitate behaviour change at many levels. A number of models or theories have been developed to help us understand how to improve public health by tackling each of these.

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