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Health Promotion Program
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Introduction
Health promotion programs aim to inspire people to take control of their lives and
improve their health. The Ottawa Charter is one kind of international agreement for Health
Promotion that was organized by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1986, held in
Ottawa, Canada. The chosen program which follows the Ottawa Charter Action is Obesity
Prevention and Prevention Lifestyle (OPAL) in South Australia. This program was aimed to
engage in healthy eating and increase physical activity among children to prevent obesity.
This essay aims to evaluate an existing health promotion plan,that is OPAL program,
targeting obesity in the population of interest, that is, 12 to 18 year olds who are over the
normal weight.
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion Action Areas
The main objective of the Ottawa Charter Health Promotion was to find out action to
accomplish the goals of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health for all. This
conference was initially held to meet the growing needs of a new public health programme
worldwide. It has six priority action areas in order to evaluate and structure health promotion
plans. This action area works on the three basic strategies that are advocate, enable and
mediate for promoting a new health programme (WHO | The Ottawa Charter for Health
Promotion, 2020).
Build Healthy Public Policy
This priority action area is related to proposing policies and making people aware
with the help of legislation, organizational change and others. Health promotion policy is
required to detect the obstruction to the adaptation of healthy public guidelines in the non-
government or rural community region. This also identifies the ways to minimize the
problem. The Health Promotion Program chosen for the investigation in this case is the

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Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle (OPAL) Program in South Australia, targeting children
between 0 to 18 years of age (Government of South Australia, 2020). The OPAL program
delivered their public health plans under the South Australian Public Health Act 2011. The
goals were focused on healthy food habits and the being active, which included the
availability of healthier food options at the restaurants and markets, as well as program to
encourage physical activities and use of parks. It includes planning of an educational program
that includes obesity-focused questions. A series of clinical counselling in the primary health
services can help the children to advocate about the matter (Kar, Dube & Kar, 2014). This, in
turn, will increase the percentage of health literacy amongst the population. Overall scenario
will provide empowerment to the people as they will be conscious about their health. As a
consequence, it will be helpful to promote a new health program that is targeted to them.
Create Supportive Environments
This entails encouraging the community to take care of each other towards a healthier
lifestyle. The OPAL program encouraged everyone to take care of each other by creating a
supportive environment in the states that took up the program (OPAL:SA health, 2020). The
EWBA Community Programs were introduced that were associated with pre-schools and
school going children for prevention of obesity in South Australia. After that, the
Government initiated the OPAL program that focused on community-based childhood
prevention session. This program aimed to enhance the healthy eating and physical activity
among the families as well as societies. These activities also concentrated on the deprived
populations that also helped to create a supportive environment to promote a health plan. A
social ecological framework was selected that is connected to various kinds of environments
such as societies, institutions, families (Bell et al., 2019). This program will enhance to
understand the matter more deeply not only by education but also the people can empower
themselves cognitively. The implementation of the OPAL program will increase the parents’