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The Ottawa Charter is a document that presents the principles and strategies for health promotion, adopted at the first international conference on health promotion in 1986. It defines health as a positive concept that involves individual, social and environmental factors, and advocates for health equity and participation.
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Jun 16, 2012 · Overview. More than 200 participants from 38 countries met in November 1986 in Ottawa to exchange experiences and share knowledge of health promotion. The conference stimulated an open dialogue among health workers. politicians, academics and representatives of governmental. voluntary and community organizations.
The Ottawa Charter is a document that presents the principles and strategies for health promotion, adopted by the first International Conference on Health Promotion in 1986. It emphasizes the need for action by all sectors and levels to create healthy public policy, environments, communities, and individuals.
The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is the name of an international agreement signed at the First International Conference on Health Promotion, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and held in Ottawa, Canada, in November 1986.
A document from the first International Conference on Health Promotion in 1986, presenting a charter for action to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond. The charter outlines five key concepts for health promotion: strengthening community action, creating supportive environments, developing personal skills, reorienting health services, and building healthy public policies.
The basic strategies for health promotion identified in the Ottawa Charter were: advocate (to boost the factors which encourage health), enable (allowing all people to achieve health equity) and mediate (through collaboration across all sectors).
Dec 12, 2021 · The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provided a template that has fundamentally re-shaped public health practice in the past 35 years ( WHO, 1986 ).
