Health Promotion

Running Head: HEALTH PROMOTION
Health Promotion
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Health Promotion
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Ottawa Charter.................................................................................................................................3
TePaeMahutonga Model..................................................................................................................5
Health Inequity/Disparity................................................................................................................6
Socio-ecological Considerations.....................................................................................................7
The Social Determinants of Health..................................................................................................8
Opportunities and Challenges for Health Promotion in New Zealand............................................9
Challenges....................................................................................................................................9
Opportunities..............................................................................................................................10
Conclusions....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
Health promotion among different communities in Aotearoa New Zealand has become an
important approach addressing the health inequalities in different communities. Health
promotion entails the empowerment of individuals to manage their lives in methods that are
adaptive, dependable, fulfilling, as well as rewarding. Maori (the indigenous populace) have the
poorest health outcomes, as well as the shortest life expectancy of all ethnicities in New Zealand.
The promotion of health in Aotearoa New Zealand recognizes the rights along with the wants of
Maori. Pacific people have an exceptional association with the state where this exceptional
affiliation results in an ethical responsibility on the component of the state to progress the
welfare and needs of Pacific peoples (Cumming, Mays & Gribben, 2008). Specifically, the
government addresses their socio-economic requirements plus the requirement to uphold their
own cultures. This means that the Pacific peoples’ perspectives, as well as needs, must be
reflected in each aspect of health promotion practice. The paper will argue that the
accomplishment of healthy communities plus healthy lifestyles via health promotion is an
attainable objective in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ottawa Charter
The historical importance of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion starts with the
primary meeting. The Ottawa Charter simplifies the organization that it is designed to
characterize; however, it does demonstrate that all-inclusive health promotion in the community
should undertake more than personal risk factors. Thus, the charter advocates for more dynamic
contribution from the users along with the stakeholders. This kind of contribution is important

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towards the planning along with the implementation stages of health promotion research.
According to Dooris 2009), the charter has been greatly significant in influencing the “new”
public health. The charter focuses on helpful settings, pioneered in the Sundsvall Statement,
established on stress in the “old” public health on guaranteeing clean, as well as secure settings
(Dooris, 2009).
The health promotion crusade, as mirrored in the charter adequately acknowledges the
significance of ecosystems along with sustainable resources towards improving the health of the
communities. The charter was significant in encouraging a shift towards a further holistic
strategy to wellbeing, using entire systems thinking, as well as stressing the incorporation of an
assurance to wellbeing into the structure of culture, social structures, procedures, plus custom life
in human societies, especially among the Maori in New Zealand. The model is consistent of
socio-ecological approach that concentrates more on social, organizational, as well as cultural
elements of the environment. The Ottawa Charter acknowledges the fact that the human health is
a multifaceted due to a complex along with an active set of interactions amid social, people plus
economic conditions, culture, as well as the natural setting (Poland, Dooris & Haluza-Delay,
2011).
The charter offered much of the impetus for the change towards the use of a socio-
ecological strategy for health promotion along with health education in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Ottawa Charter acknowledged that primary health attainments were connected not to so
much to developments in medical know-how as to increases in wages along with the living
standards and to public health programs initiated by policy changes at community and
government levels. The Ottawa Charter recognizes nine extensive prerequisites for promoting