HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Health Promotion, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion
26 Jan 2016
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Emphasis on lifestyle and personal responsibility ( self-imposed risks ) Individual blame must be accepted by many for the deleterious effect on health of their respective lifestyles. Health promotion directorate opened in federal department of national health and. First bureaucratic structure devoted to health promotion in the world. Lifestyle emphasized with focus areas on smoking and nutrition. Health inequalities not being addressed or reduced. Health promotion: a process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their own healtha mediating strategy between people and their environments, combining personal choice with social responsibility for health. Prerequisites for health: peace, shelter, education, food, income, stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, equality. Outlines removing inequities between income groups as important goal of government policy. Focus on the social determinants of health. Beyond health care/health on the agenda of all policy makers in all sectors at all levels. Make the healthiest choice the easiest choice.
