Assignment on Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion Strategy

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Assessment Task 1
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Introduction
The foundation of Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion in the year 1986 lead to the
beginning of the change in a manner through which the healthcare professionals empower
and educate the individuals and other community members (World Health Organization or
WHO, 2019). The following essay aims to demonstrate by personal understandings of how
the Australian National Diabetes Strategy is addressing the principal action areas of the
Ottawa Charter health promotion strategy in regards to the Aboriginals and Torres Strait
Islander (ATSI) population. The essay will also focus on how health literacy, health
education and health promotion help in empowering the ATSI population and the role of
nurse in healthcare service user’s empowerment.
Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion Strategy
According to the Ottawa Charter for the Health Promotion (OCHP), health promotion
is defined as a process that helps people to increase their control over their health status and
thereby helping to improve their overall health-related quality of life. The main action areas
of the OCHP include: health advocacy, ensuring equal opportunities in healthcare,
mediated co-ordinated actions by the other stakeholder of health, building public health
policy, creation of supportive environment, strengthening community-based actions,
development of the personal skills and re-orientation of the healthcare services (WHO,
2019).
Australian National Diabetes Strategy (ANDS) and OCHP
Australian National Diabetes Strategy mainly aims of outline the national response of
Australia toward effective prevention of diabetes and at the same time helps to inform the
importance of the existing healthcare resources in order to promote comprehensive health

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promotion. One of the principal goals of the ANDS includes reduction of the diabetes among
the ATSI population (Australian Government Department of Health, 2016). The first goal
includes development and implementation of the community-based health promotion plan hat
is culturally competent. The development of the culturally competent community-based
health promotion plan helps in ensuring equal opportunities in healthcare among the
aboriginal population (Australian Government Department of Health, 2016). Hill et al. (2017)
stated that the ATSI population in Australia suffer from significant level of health-inequality
and one of the prime reasons behind this is they suffer from communication and cultural gap
that create barriers in the comprehensive healthcare access. Gap in healthcare access
increases the health inequality. Culturally competent community-level health promotion plan
that is brimmed with the nursing professional from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Background (CLAD) helps in comprehensive health participation and reducing health
inequalities (Amery, 2017). Under this community-based health promotion plan, the CLAD
nurses or the aboriginal nurses conduct community-based health education in a culturally
competent manner and this helps in the promotion of health advocacy. Numerous
stakeholders of the health-promotion and advocacy include the family members of the
affected individuals and the health promotion and health-advocacy towards diabetes
management also include the family members of the ATSI population and thus promoting
comprehensive health-related awareness. Morse and Lau (2018) state that, including family
members in the health promotion plan increase the level of support coming from the family
members and thus increasing therapy adherence. The presence of the family members and
aboriginal nurses who are trained to educate and support CLAD population help in the
generation of a comfortable environment and promotes increase in the level of the healthcare
access and this might be another reason behind the significant reduction in the health-
inequality among the ATSI population of Australia. Strengthening community based actions