Health Promotion and Illness Prevention

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HEALTH PROMOTION AND ILLNESS PREVENTION
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Introduction
Ottawa Charter is a milestone for the global healthcare professionals and organizations
that are planning to conduct healthcare promotional activities and works as a reference for global
healthcare professionals. This charter was passed in the first international conference for health
promotion, in Ottawa on 21st November, 1986 (World Health Organization, 2019). The primary
aim of charter was to provide the global healthcare domain with sixkey action areas, through
which the organizations could create supportive environments, develop personal skills of
professionals, build and comply with public health policies, strengthen the communication
between community, and provide preventive and effective care to the patients and ensure
such complication does not arise in the future (World Health Organization, 2019).
As per this charter, (name of the program) is the healthcare promotional program which
have been proposed to apply in the City of Cardiana for pakehnam community as it has been
known from the demographic statistics that majority of the female in the community is
suffering from obesity concerns. Hence, though this essay, the application of Ottawa charter
and its 5 key action areas for the health promotional program for obesity in the women of
pakenham community would be provided. Further, through this essay, the competency of
healthcare promotional program with Ottawa charter and its importance for global healthcare
process will be discussed.
Discussion
While conducting healthcare promotional program, as per Lobo, Petrich and
Burns(2014), it is important to comply to the Ottawa charter so that the healthcare promotional
program for the females of pakehnam community affected with obesity could include the

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social health, physical health, emotional health with the personal values and goals of the people
of tat community. The following sections would provide the details of sixcore key actions that
the (name of the program) healthcare promotional program should include.
Building healthy public policy
The first action for the public healthcare program would be developing healthcare public
policy so that with excellent health, equity in policy related aspects could also be developed.
Further, through this program, the social and physical environment of the healthcare is developed
so that they could enhance the healthcare of the population is focus (Carter, 2014). As per
Persson and Haraldsson(2017), healthcare policy is the way through which the international and
national governments could focus critically on the healthcare needs of the people and they could
also become aware of the healthcare concerns the communities are facing. In this healthcare
promotional program for pakehnam community women affected with obesity while
determining the policy of the program, the financial and fiscal measures, the local and national
governmental legislations, the culture of the organization conducting the care promotional
program would be implemented (Hou, 2014). So that prior to the promotional program, obesity
related primary concern of the community, application of ethical considerations, taxation and
other important fiscal aspects could be finalized and safe and accurate care process could be
provided to the participants. Further, as per this action, it would be important to identify the
social, political and environmental barriers which could affect the service of the care promotional
program (Eldredge et al., 2016).