Health Promotion Program Analysis: Ottawa Charter and Nursing Role

This essay examines the Farmsafe Australia program within the framework of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, focusing on the Shire of Wellington as the target population. It meticulously analyzes how the program aligns with the six action areas of the charter: building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, reorienting health services, and moving into the future. The essay highlights the program's contributions to health literacy, health education, and overall health promotion, particularly within the context of empowering the chosen vulnerable group. Furthermore, it emphasizes the crucial role of nurses in supporting and educating the target population, ensuring the effective implementation of the program and the achievement of its objectives. The essay concludes that the Farmsafe Australia program is successful and well-organized, and the nurses have a well-established role in the program.

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Introduction
As of February 2015, Australia employed more than 325,300 people in agriculture,
forestry and fishery thus forming a major agricultural producer and exporter. Agriculture and
its closely associated industries gain $155 billion a year for a share of GDP of 12%. Farmers
and grazers own 135,997 properties, which account for 61 per cent of Australia's land. The
Shire of Wellington is a local government area situated in the eastern part of the state, in
Victoria, Australia. This occupies an area of 10,817 km2 (4,176 sq mi) and had a population
of 44,019 in June 2018. The local government area of the Shire of Wellington relies mainly
on dairy farming as well as other agriculture. The Ottawa Charter is an international
framework for reviewing health promotion services. This was founded by the World Health
Organization in Ottawa, Canada, in 1984. Health promotion programs are designed to enable
a particular group of people to make healthier health choices and enhance their lifestyle. The
program that has been chosen here is Farmsafe Australia that is committed to make
Australian Farms better places for jobs and living. Its aim is to enhance the welfare and
profitability of Australian agriculture by raising standards and practices on health and safety.
The targeted population of this study is Wellington Shire Council Victoria. The article aims
at reviewing the plan according to the six intervention areas of the Ottawa Health Promotion
Charter.
Discussion
The conference's main goal in Ottawa was to follow it up with the charter to meet the
world's population's growing healthcare demands. This Charter was also used to promote the
dissemination of information about health promotion programs. This has been widely used as
a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of healthcare services around the word
afterwards. In this case, the Farmsafe Initiative grew out of the development in the late '80s

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of a number of local farm safety action groups and State Farmsafe Committees and has been
evaluated as follows:
Build Healthy Public Policy
Healthcare initiatives operate beyond the ground and the policymakers' target must be
to promote health. Farmsafe Australia is the national agency that links different groups that
share a mutual interest in agricultural protection and health. Government and key
stakeholders have significant parts to play in promoting health and safety for Aussie farmers.
Farmsafe Victoria prioritized policy that had a significant impact on the targeted population.
Right to farm, Telecommunications, foreign ownership , Rural rates, Onshore gas, Fire
Services Property Levy, Native animals, road and rail, Water, Native vegetations, energy and
power, Talent and foreign investment, seasonal workers and an ethical workforce, labour
crisis- all these aimed at improving the health and safety of the Shire of Wellington. This
policy development helped the targeted population to get access to proper resources thus
deeming this system to be compatible with the field of practice (Adler & Seligman, 2016).
The role of nurses is to influence the policymaker to realize the priority of the resources and
shaping the care of the rural communities by making them aware of the policy and influence
them to utilize it for their betterment (Field et al., 2014).
Create Supportive Environment
Supportive environment is interdependent on health promotion and thus forms an
crucial part in achieving the goals of health promotion. Farmsafe is 100 % non-profit, and in
recent years we have committed considerable time and energy to raising awareness on
Australian farms of key health and safety problems through social media and interaction with
communities and stakeholders. The Farm Safety resources creates a supportive environment
by providing Farm Machinery Guarding Guide, Child Safety on Farms Guide, Grain
Handling Safety Guide, Farm Workshop Safety Guide, Safe use of Quads, Guarding Grain

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Auger Guide, Safe Tractor Operation Guide, Safe Cattle Handling Guide, and Side by Side
Vehicle Guide, Farm Safety Series: Assessing Stockyard Risks. It has also provided with
machinery guarding in improving safety-Radio community service announcements. The plan
came up with resources for the farmers like work health and safety, safety induction, farm
safety records, emergency planning and training resources (Farmsafe.org.au, 2020). This
programs are available anywhere to the farmers and her very handy thus forming a supportive
environment to the rural communities. This program provide a healthy lifestyle by preventing
them from any risks. Here the nurses play a significant role in educating the farmers and
make them understand the use of mobile induction app thus establishing health promotion
and health literacy. Patient literacy has been identified as a major contribution of the nurses to
maintain the well being of the Shire of Wellington.
Strengthen Community Action
Strengthening community action is described as increasing communities' resources
and ability to make choices and undertake cooperative action to improve their control of their
health determinants. This dimension means that the system only works when there is clear
contact in terms of goals, strategies and the overall execution (Thompson, Watson & Tilford,
2018). Farmsafe initiatives and practices are focused on the idea that individual farmers, farm
workers and their families bear primary responsibility for farm health. The broader rural
community will aid by creating a 'health culture' within those communities to promote farm
health action. Local networks of farming families, relatives, businesses and community
groups can all play a significant role in helping relieve a few of the farming life pressures. By
enhancing the flow of information on risks, risk factors and realistic safety measures, farming
communities may come together to substantially reduce the risk of agricultural production
related injury and illnesses (Farmsafe.org.au, 2020). Nurses volunteer to use their
professional know-how to support community wellbeing. The nurses can influence them for

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participation, community empowerment, community-led and social justice (Roden et al.,
2015).
Develop Personal Skills
One of the most significant part of health promotion plan is development of personal
skills. This involves educating the rural communities by mentoring and by providing training.
Agricultural safety is mainly the responsibility of individual farmers, farm families and farm
employees, so we need to enhance their awareness, understanding and implementation of
realistic protection measures to reduce the risk of death, injury and disease (Fry & Zask,
2017). Farmsafe Australia's National Farm Safety Week (July 16-22) is an initiative aimed at
increasing awareness of agricultural safety issues and encouraging safer on-farm practices
through creativity and increased focus. The nurse’s role in preventive health care is to use
evidentiary evidence and advice to improve patient safety. Via awareness, mentoring and
leadership, nurses can impassion others to participate in healthier lifestyles (Farmsafe.org.au,
2020). This program will educate the rural communities and thus increase health literacy rate
and can acts as a preventative measure. Promoting in such areas can improve the lifestyle and
enhance health well-being.
Reorient Health Services
Reorienting health systems contradicts the health-care paradigm, which treats the
body as separate components and focuses on illness and illness treatments. This means that
the health promotion system is adequately focused and advanced (Wieczorek et al., 2015).
This calls for a shift in healthcare attitude and organisation that refocuses on the overall needs
of the patient as a whole. The reorientation of health care needs a greater emphasis on health
science and reforms in vocational education and training (World Health Organization, 2020).
This will result in a change of attitude and the organisation of health care that reflects on the
general needs of the patient as a whole. Farmsafe is interested in setting up mechanisms to

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help individual farmers' efforts to enhance safety outcomes (for example, by providing quad
bike preparation and roll-over prevention rebates – as in NSW and Victoria) and by working
actively to recognise activities and items that present an unreasonable health and safety
danger. In this respect, the key role of the nurses is to ensure that the target population
benefits from the programme (Nakagasien, 2015).
Moving Into Future
This dimension of the Ottawa Charter includes the program's possibility and holism,
and how it assures the participants a better quality of life. Holism, Caring and biodiversity are
critical problems in designing health promotion strategies (AnAaker & Elf, 2014). A guiding
principle should be that in each step of the preparation, execution and assessment of health
promotion activities women and men will become equal partners. People are creating and
living health within their daily environments; where they read, work, play and love. Health is
created by taking care of oneself and others, by being able to take decisions and influence
one's circumstances in life and by ensuring that one's environment provides conditions that
allow all its members to achieve health (World Health Organization, 2020). Farmsafe
program can be successfully implemented on the Shire of Wellington. Every time, the nurses
must continue to work for the health promotion component and be persistent in achieving the
best results.
Conclusion
It can be concluded that Farmsafe Australia programme was successful on the
targeted population of the Shire of Wellington. The plan adhered closely to the Ottawa
Charter Action Areas, and can thus be viewed as a effective and well-organized plan. The
role of the nurses has been well established in the 6 action area. The key role of the nurses in
this program was to educate and support the target population when needed. This program is

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identified as a successful program which has shed light on health education, health literacy
and health promotion along with the role of the nurses in each section.

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