Health Promotion and Obesity: An Analysis of Ottawa Charter Strategies

This report delves into the application of the Ottawa Charter strategies, specifically focusing on the development of personal skills, to address the global issue of obesity. It explores the multifaceted nature of obesity, emphasizing its impact on individuals, families, communities, and the economy. The report highlights the importance of understanding the root causes of obesity, such as imbalances in energy sources, changes in food types, and decreased physical activity. It then examines the Ottawa Charter's five key strategies, with a particular emphasis on how personal skill development can empower individuals to manage their health and make informed choices regarding diet and lifestyle. The report also discusses the societal impact of obesity, including its links to chronic diseases and increased healthcare costs. It further explores various educational activities, social awareness programs, and technological advancements that can support obesity prevention and management. The conclusion reinforces the significance of the Ottawa Charter's approach and the need for collaborative efforts across various sectors to foster healthy living behaviors and combat the growing obesity epidemic. It provides references from the assignment brief.

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Introduction
Health weight is not only the concern of an individual but also the worry of maximum
families, communities, societies and our economy. The purpose of the topic is to shed light
on the development of personal skills in the management of obesity. Currently, obesity or
overweight becomes a major problem globally (Flynn, 2015). Each and every person now
wants to maintain a healthy wait for his/her well physique. However, misbalance in energy
source results the changing in food type, food availability and affordability. Because of
decreasing the level of high-energy foods, physical activity has partly declined (Bonsergent et
al., 2013). AS a result, a little bit weight loss is so much beneficial now a days. Now help
people in realizing and preparing them throughout the life, because of each type of obesities
is essential. Also, this personal development skills must be facilitated in school, college,
home, working place an society. Because of this novel reason educational, commercial,
professional and voluntary bodies are required for ultimate action. It can help individual to
practice of better regulation in their own health and also over their domains. Recently certain
obesity prevention programs and activities in community sector is trying continuously to
improve the awareness of both educated and uneducated people. These programs give both
mental as well as physical support by encouraging people for bringing change in their daily
life style and food habit (Wang et al., 2013). Generally obesity is directly proportional to the
calories consumed by individuals. In the biological terms Obesity is described as the state of
excess adipose tissue mass. Excessive intake in calories degrades the normal stage of obesity
and turned it into complex situation.

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Discussion
Ottawa Charter Strategy and Obesity
Ottawa Charter has described five simple strategies to overcome the complex
condition regarding to major or minor diseases. Among all the five theories development of
personal skill strategies are most helpful action in investigating and evaluating the relevance
and pertineny of health promotion actions to obesity (Jackson et al., 2013). Obesity can be
dominated by simple healthy weight strategies, that will help to convert a unhealthy weight
into healthy physique. Now unhealthy condition of the body generally impair the wellbeing,
ability to earn, quality of life and satisfaction on life of an individual. Obesity leads to heavy
weight, that leads to physical inactivity and lastly physical inactivity leads to poor mental
condition , chronic diseases and decrease in life expectancy (Flynn, 2015).
Effect of Obesity in the society
Obesity is not only related to the over weight of an individual but also obesity brings
the condition of certain cardiac disease and moderate blood pressure and diabetes . However,
this is more dangerous issue that the children having overweight are more prone to the
asthma, infection in bone and joint and disturbance in sleep (Desahulter, Lavie & Milani,
2014). The whole value of obesity was estimated in 2015 at $8.6 billion in US. Also, the
influence of decrement of well being and unseasonable death was calculated at $47.4 billion
in US (Yeung et al., 2017). It can be estimated from a study that one in six premature death in
Australia might be eliminated by an ideal attempt to bring back all those people within the
range of healthy physique, who were actual overweight.
Now obesity is not the same for everyone. Sociologically disadvantages area contains
76 percent more adult obesity rate compare to advantaged areas. Also, in major cities rate of

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obesity in adult are 22 percent higher in outer regional and 36 percent higher in remote
regions (Prilleltensky, 2014).
Solution of Obesity
While obesity is a tangled problem, there is no simple solution for the obesity. Policy
builders, state and local authorities, community and business leaders, school, college,
childcare and healthcare professionals and individuals should practice together to form an
atmosphere to raise genial living behaviours that obstruct obesity (Chen & Wilkosz, 2014).
Development of personal skills among students
The students should learn about all the fruit and vegetables help in maintaining
reduced weight. They must learn about healthy meals and sugary drinks. Also, they should
concern about taking the meal having low fat, low sugars and low salt and sodium. However,
vitamins, minerals an dietary fibres should be presented in the food for optimum nutrition
(Abeysekara, Turchi & O’Neil, 2014).Following all of these food charts individual can
reduce their weight. However, it is a time consuming process of losing weight.
Only the most effective way of reduced weight is proper exercise and walking and
also any other physical activities. Because physical activities are important for healthy
weight. Therefore, all students should be concerned about the rules and regulations for the
quantity of physical activities needed per day. Also, parents should be concerned about the
healthy behaviours of their children (Prilleltensky, 2014). Hence, they will must give few
valuable tips to improve the physical and mental health of their children.
Some Educational Activities and Social Awareness Programs
There are certain programs and educational activities, like The State Physical Activity
and Nutrition Program and Healthy future Technical Assistance Program. All those programs
help to improve the consumption of nutritive foods and enhance the ability to handle all the

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guidelines and policies regarding healthy physical conditions (Sobol-Goldberg, Rabinowitz &
Gross, 2013). The government should be highly conscious about successful completion of
those social obesity awareness programs by providing enough funding.
On the other hand, any type of child and care food programs provide recompose to
child care and day care programs that give healthy meals and snacks to children and adults in
care. The children from low-income families are allowed to participate in those programs. A
frequent care is provided to all those unemployed family with their children (Cai et al., 2014).
This type of obesity prevention programs also encourage the new mothers to breastfeed their
children. Here paediatric and gynaecologic provider practices are motivated to support
breastfeeding before and after birth of infants.
A “Hunger prevention and nutrition assistance program” should assure that healthy
foods, like fresh whole grain cereals and low-fat milk must be available in all zonal food cort
and food store room. Sometimes, a special program for a mother and her children on the basis
of nutritive awareness, gives supply of supplemental food, nutrition education and
counselling for the support of those mothers with health and social services (Wang et al.,
2013).
The goals of the all kind of healthy activities lead to enhancing the number of school
with healthy environment with gusty nutrition, maintaining standards for competitive foods,
strong and intelligible local school, wellness policies and extensive physical activity
programs. Reducing the number of schools that accommodate food marketing to the children.
General consideration
Apart from that an ideal approach to prevent obesities by the development of personal
skills is an increasing access to place to walk and run. Obesity is highly related to the body
fat and cholesterol. Body fat can be removed externally only by walking, running and going

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to the gym. All the three kind of activities are directly related to the sweating. Only too much
exudation of sweat from the body will be helpful in reducing the body fat (Gooding et al.,
2014). If amount of body fat is reduced, then automatically weight of the individual will be
decreased. As a result, the body mass index will be less, which will be assured that the person
is not suffering from obesity. Therefore, a legal restriction should be asked to the constructor
that, a place of walking, running and exercising should be provided by them in every building
premises. All the human being from child to old, should walk regularly at least one or half
mile in a day (Donath et al., 2013)
Daily checkups
From the maturation of the personal skills of individuals, it can be said that if any
individual undergoes in a thorough routine check up either weekly or monthly, then obesity
will be easily addressed on his/her blood report. The degree of obesity then can be measured
by the physician. As a result, there will be no headache of occurring diabetes and
cardiovascular disease from extended obesity (Sanders et al., 2014). Hence, a medical team
or volunteer team should be formed to give awareness to ach and every people that obesity
can be mitigated by the routine checkups.
Exploitation of Technology in Health Care promotion
Recently there are large varieties of mobile apps, that will monitored if the users have
obesity or not. Sometimes by using those apps one can get appointment from a specialist
doctor or he or she can take advices from that physician by using those apps. Therefore,
personal skills to fight against obesity can be generated from each and every single side of
our society (Bacigalupo et al, 2013). Only the people from each civilization must be highly
conscious and alert. The educated as well as uneducated both will be sensible in the
appearance of obesity. Increasing in the funding will help in motivating the obsessed children

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from poor family and will improve their belief that obesity can be cured. Obesity is a
significant issue, not only illiterate people even the literate people does not care about their
excessive weight (Bonsergent et al., 2013). This is a very bad habit, and the worst effect of
this bad habit will be suffered by the individual with individual’s family.
Conclusion
After detailed demonstration of all criteria and depth analysis of health promotion
theory it can be concluded that Ottawa Charter strategy of development of personal skills in
the management of obesity is sufficient for general assessment. The theory mainly focus on
the action by which self awareness will be build up. In recent days, maturity can be defined
by the level of consciousness. Theoretical knowledge from books is not sufficient at every
time to maintain peaceful life. Knowing about major strategies to overcome certain most
common disorder, like overweight and obesity will be very helpful to lead a disease free life.
Generally, obesity does not come alone, it brings certain other critical disorders, like diabetes,
Cardio vascular disease and hypertension. Hence, to achieve benefits in social life, one
should aware of all the conditions arise in any ailments. Now, in obesity large no. Of body
mass index results to have high degree of obesity, which may lead to diabetes or CVD. A
responsible individual will always concern about overweight due to excessive body fat.
Therefore, consulting with a doctor and taking proper medication including daily exercise are
essential to get rid off obesity. However, prevention of obesity is an exclusively complex
matter, needed the interplay of various sectors, from government to industry to primary care
providers. Therefore, developing personal skills not only help to withdrawal the overweight
phenomenon but also built strength in community action.

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