HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Promotion, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Second International
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Second international conference on health promotion, adelaide, south australia, 5-9. Healthy public policy is characterized by an explicit concern for health and equity in all areas of policy and by an accountability for health impact. The main aim of health public policy is to create a supportive environment to enable people to lead healthy lives. Such a policy makes health choices possible or easier for citizens. In the pursuit of healthy public policy, government sectors concerned with agriculture, trade, education, industry, and communications need to take into account health as an essential factor when formulating policy. These sectors should be accountable for the health consequences of their policy decisions. Justice: treating people equally and fairly: use of the term model: In this chapter, the term model refers to the visual representation of an understanding of what health promotion is: the chapter presents five models that are attempts to describe and group the nature of.
