PH 265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Health Promotion, Resource Depletion

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PH 265
• Professor: Nancy Chin

Document Summary

November 1986: first international conference for health promotion. This was a response to growing expectations for a new global public health movement. Health promotion: the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health . Health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health promotion action aims at reducing differences in current health status and ensuring equal opportunities and resources to enable all people to achieve their fullest health potential. People can"t achieve their fullest health potential unless they"re able to take control over the things which determine their health. The prerequisites for health cannot be ensured by the health sector alone! These require coordinated action by governments, health and social and economic sectors, ngos, local authorities, by industry, and by the media. Health promotion policy approaches include legislation, fiscal measures, taxation, and organizational change. This coordinated action leads to health, income, and social policies that foster greater equity.