Health Promotional Program Assignment

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HEALTH PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM ASSIGNMENT
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Introduction
Ottawa charter is an international guideline for the health promotion programs
throughout the world which was signed in 1986, November 21st, in the Ottawa city of Canada.
The charter consists of six core competencies, achieving which any healthcare promotional
program could achieve higher effectiveness and provide support to majority of the community.
As per the World Health Organization (2019), the six competencies of Ottawa charter are
building health policies for the communities, creating environments to support their health
promotion, strengthening the communities and related actions, developing different personal
skills, reorientation of the health services to increase its application, and developing the
future scope for the people.
Health promotional programs are means using which organizations could develop the
educational knowledge of any community suffering from chronic conditions. Further, it helps to
empower them to take control of their own health and improve their condition (Hou, 2014).
Hence, in this assignment, discussion about the health promotional program “Healthy kids,
happy kids” would be discussed that targets the nutrition in kinder and primary school
children in Donald (town) of Victoria, Australia. Further, the ways, using which the
competencies would be achieved will be discussed in the assignment.
Discussion
While conducting healthcare promotional program for the kinder and primary school
children for their nutritional interventions, it would be important to implement the Ottawa charter
competencies so that a holistic and developmental promotional program could be developed for
the children, suffering from nutritional issues. In the following sections, the competencies

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required for the implementation of successful health promotion and the way these competencies
would be addressed would be provided.
Building health policies for the communities
While conducting healthcare promotional program, it is important for the organizers to
develop some policies, which complies with the guidelines of the international policy or national
healthcare priorities (Sallis et al., 2015). These policies and guidelines are important to be
followed extensively so that through the development of physical and social environment,
children and their malnutrition condition could be observed and then interventions could be
applied for the achievement of favorable outcome (Dodson, Good& Osborne, 2015). Besides
this, as per Alley et al. (2016), by complying with the policies, the national and local
governments are able to understand the needs of the population and apply interventions for the
health improvement of the community. In this promotional program decided for the kids for their
nutritional development, while developing the policies, all the financial measures, ethical
considerations, consent from the parents, and code of conduct of the organization developing the
program would be implemented (Fertman & Allensworth, 2016). Further, through these,
development of ethically enabled care program, fiscal determinants and assessment of parents
and their knowledge about the importance of nutrition for the growth and development of
children in their early stages would be determined. Hence, this way, complying with this core
competency, the ‘Healthy kids, happy kids’ promotional program would become politically,
socially and ethically competent to improve the condition of the children in Donald (town) in
Victoria, Australia (Dodson, Good & Osborne, 2015).