Comparative Analysis of Key Health Promotion Documents: Canada Context

This report offers a comprehensive analysis of three pivotal health promotion documents: the Lalonde Report, the Epp Report, and the Ottawa Charter, all focusing on improving the health of Canadians. The analysis explores the key messages, concepts, and frameworks of each document, highlighting their similarities and differences. The Lalonde Report introduced the concept of the health field, while the Epp Report emphasized service, social, and individual health goals. The Ottawa Charter, developed by the WHO, identified key approaches for health promotion. The report also examines the timing, context, audience, and purpose of each document, including their impact on health promotion strategies. The conclusion emphasizes the collective focus of these documents on improving health conditions within the Canadian population, referencing key publications for further context.

Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION DOCUMENTS
Analysis of Health Promotion Documents
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Introduction
Health promotion is a process that enables the common people to increase control over
their health. The prime target of health promotion strategies is to positively impact the health of
the communities and the individuals positively and also influence the health and working
condition of the working people (World Health Organization, 2018). This study is based on the
comparison of three key historical health promotion documents of Lalonde Report, the Epp
Report, and the Ottawa Charter.
Key messages and concepts
The Lalonde Report- this report is based on the concept of health field, which identifies
two health related objectives: the health care system, and promotion of better health and at the
same time prevention of the health related problems. The report is considered to the first
document that shed light on the fact that emphasizing on the biomedical health is wrong (Sarker
& Joarder, 2012).
Epp Report- This report emphasizes on a framework, which describes the health
promotion in terms of the service goal (increasing prevention), social goal (inequality reduction),
individual level goal (enhance coping). The health promotion report differentiates the
intervention channels from the implementation strategies (MacDonald et al., 2013).
Ottawa Charter- this charter was both developed and adopted in an international
conference organized by WHO. The charter recognized the basic approaches and strategies of
health promotion which is considered to be vital for the progress in health (World Health
Organization, 2018).
Similarities and differences among frameworks
The similarity between all the three reports or documents is that, they all focus on the
health promotion of the Canadians. The approaches taken up by both the Ottawa charter and the
Epp report is also similar. While there exists a difference in the health promotion strategy taken
up by the Lalonde report in comparison to the other two documents.

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Audience
In all the three documents or the reports of health promotion, the targeted audience are
the Canadians.
Timing and context
The Lalonde Report- this report was launched by the former Canadian health minister
Marc Lalonde. This report was named as New perspective in the Health of Canadians in the
year 1973. This effectively initiated the population health movement (Sarker & Joarder, 2012).
Epp Report- this report was launched by the former Canadian minister of national health
and welfare named Jake Epp. This report was named as Achieving health for all A framework
for health promotion in the year 1986 (MacDonald et al., 2013).
Ottawa Charter- this is a charter adopted in an international conference of health
promotion organized by World Health Organization in the year 1986. The charter was named as
Ottawa Charter for Health promotion (World Health Organization, 2018).
Purpose and impact
The main purpose of the Ottawa charter is to achieve equity in health. The purpose of the
Epp report is to reduce inequalities, raise the prevention efforts, enhancing the capacity of people
to cope with the chronic conditions. While the main purpose of the Lalonde report is to
amalgamate the four interdependent fields (biology, lifestyle, environment, healthcare
organization) that influences an individual’s health (Eldredge et al., 2016).
Conclusion
Therefore, from the above study, it can be concluded that health promotion documents
specifically focus on the promoting the health conditions of the Canadians that are undergoing
some deterioration in health condition. The reports like the Lanlonde report, Epp report and the
Ottawa charter all focus on the health promotion of the Canadians.

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Reference
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health promotion programs: an intervention mapping approach. John Wiley & Sons.
MacDonald, S. E., Newburn‐Cook, C. V., Allen, M., & Reutter, L. (2013). Embracing the
population health framework in nursing research. Nursing inquiry, 20(1), 30-41.
Sarker, M., & Joarder, T. (2012). Global Health Promotion.
World Health Organization. (2018). Health promotion. World Health Organization. Retrieved 12
January 2018, from http://www.who.int/topics/health_promotion/en/
World Health Organization. (2018). The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. World Health
Organization. Retrieved 12 January 2018, from
http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/previous/ottawa/en/