It incorporates five key action areas in Health Promotion (build healthy public policy, create supportive environments for health, strengthen community action for health, develop personal skills, and re-orient health services) and three basic HP strategies (to enable, mediate, and advocate).

What are the 5 strategies of the Ottawa Charter examples?

Health Promotion (Ottawa Charter)

  • Developing Personal Skills.
  • Reorienting Health Services.
  • Strengthen Community Action.
  • Creating Supportive Environments.
  • Building Healthy Public Policy.

How do I reference the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion?

World Health Organization. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 1986 Nov 21 Available from:

How does health promotion based on the Ottawa Charter promote equity?

By having access to medical care, it allows socioeconomically disadvantaged people to make healthy choices, therefore promoting equity. Another example is government legislations, such as smoking restrictions in public areas, which assist people make positive health choices.

What are the 3 pillars of health promotion According to who?

The settings approach has roots in the WHO Health for All strategy and, more specifically, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Healthy Settings key principles include community participation, partnership, empowerment and equity.

What are the different types of health promotion?

Examples of effective health promotion activities for child and family health

  • Promoting breastfeeding.
  • Promoting child and family nutrition.
  • SIDS prevention and education [72]
  • Injury prevention [73]
  • Promoting physical activity.
  • Smoking cessation programs such as ‘quit’ activities and ‘brief interventions’