Health Promotion Intervention: Ottawa Charter & Children's Health

This essay critically examines a health promotion intervention in a school setting, focusing on creating awareness regarding healthy eating among children in Dartford, UK. It uses the five approaches to health promotion outlined in the Ottawa Charter, including building healthy public policy, creating supportive community actions, strengthening community actions, developing personal skills, and reorienting health services. The essay discusses the importance of behavior change approaches and identifies strategies for promoting healthy lifestyles among school children, aiming to reduce premature mortality and morbidity. The health promotion plan emphasizes the role of experts in guiding interventions and the significance of community involvement to achieve sustainable improvements in the health and well-being of school children.

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Introduction:
It is important to develop and focus on health interventions in order to bring behavioural
change in society and specifically to the low-resources population. It is needed in order to have a
better and healthy future of the nation from the overall perspective. While health intervention
may not focus on specific health interest, it is essential on an overall interest. To carry out health
promotion the most primary focus should be the setting of promotion. Therefore, in order to have
a successful health promotion, appropriate health promotion interventions should be followed.
The most popular and reliable health promotion intervention discussed in the Ottawa Charter’s
five approaches to health promotion. The paper aims to critically discuss the health promotion
intervention that is in a school to create awareness regarding healthy eating in order to help
improve their health as well as well-being. Various approaches to health promotion exist today
however, this paper will be in regard to the five approaches to health promotion presented by
Ottawa Charter. The various approaches aim to achieve the goal of healthy eating habit in the
community. It is important to understand that only through changing healthy habits, a
community can help achieve healthy living. The systematic way is to encourage the discussion
made on the health promotion that would display the ways health promotion intervention can
support school children by improving their health as well as well-being through healthy eating in
the town of Dartford.
Discussion:
The Ottawa charter health promotion intervention:
It was in Ottawa where the first international conference on health promotion took place
in the year 1986. The primary aim of the conference was to identify action and achieve Health

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for all by the end of 2000. Health promotion is the process that enables people to increase control
over their health and improve their health. Health is perceived to be the main resources for
everyday life. It is not only the responsibility of the health sector to promote health but also
every individual’s responsibility (World Health Organization 2014). Each conference aims to
strengthen health promotion principles as well as practices that involves several aspects such as
supportive environment, healthy public policy, building healthy alliance. There is a big
contribution to the health care industry which the reason the paper is dedicated on the same
aspect.
According to Ottawa Charter, health promotion is a method of controlling over health and
improves the health. For good health, the fundamental conditions and resources needed are
peace, education, shelter, food, income, sustainable resources, a stable ecosystem and social
justice and equity.
According to the Ottawa Charter, the health promotion priority action areas are as follows:
Building healthy public policy: Putting health as the priority and places it on the agenda of
policy makers in every sector at every level is the meaning of it. It directs them to be conscious
of the health consequences involving decisions and responsibilities for health. The first method
would be to create a plan of approaching schools in Dartford.
Create supportive community actions: Health is one of the important aspects of society.
Therefore, health is inseparable. It has an important impact on the links between people and their
environment. It is to create supportive environments. There will a need to create supportive
environment that will encourage the children from the schools in Dartford to know the reasons
for having healthy eating.

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Strengthen community actions: In order to promote health through community action setting
priorities, making decisions and planning strategies is the aim to achieve better health. The plans
and strategies that will be decided in order to create healthy eating habit should be sternly
followed. The actions needs to be focused as it the actions that will make the purpose of the
health promotion possible.
Develop personal skills: The link between health promotion and personal and social
development can be addressed through education, teaching life skills and providing information.
Through health promotion, personal skills can be developed which is important for better health.
To communicate with the students and bring the change in the eating healthy can be performed
through education and teaching life skills.
Reorient health services: Health promotion has the responsibility to share resources among
community, individuals and every other related person. The aim of health promotion is also to
initiate working together that would contribute to the pursuit of health. Through this approach
the children will develop not only healthy eating habits but also the importance of resources. The
resources need to be distributed equally among every children of schools in Dartford.
Moving into the future: Ecology, caring and holism are essential factors of developing health
promotion intervention since the main purpose in linked to it. Therefore, people involved needs
to take as a guiding principle that future is the main concern for which health promotion.
Planning, implementation and evaluation are something men and women should be equally
involved and be partners. This is essential to be realized while carrying out the health promotion
intervention in the schools of Dartford.

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Framework for health promotion:
Heath promotion is for individual as well as individuals and communities. It is even for
the entire population. Setting are important for brining health promotion in the place where
people tend to work, live and socialize. Any promotion involves prioritizing events and peoples
involved. Therefore, targeting health promotion will involves several aims and important points.
Best use of resources, health for all and the place where people can be reached easily. The
framework of health promotion will involve focusing on several areas of promotion. The several
areas of promotions are:
 Preventive health services
 Community based work
 Organizational development
 Healthy public policies, economic and regulatory activities
 Health educational programs
The areas that the health promotion will be carried out should be significant to be decided
carefully. The areas where the provision of food is necessary are :
 work setting
 in schools
 prisons
 building sites
 hospitals
Improvement of health is not only the physical health but also emotional health.
Emotional health involves a great part of wellbeing (Green et al. 2019.). This involves social
interaction. Opportunities to raise awareness and benefits and entitlements. Combing every point

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the right measure is identified and framework is developed (Grimm et al. 2013). In this paper the
focus is school children of Dartford
The health promotion plan:
The health promotion plan involves the different ways to create awareness and bring a
change in the behavior that will initiate healthy habits among the school children in the Dartford.
Behaviour change approach: The specific approach aims to encourage school children
in Dartford to adopt healthy behaviours and prioritise health. The approach involves
communication, education and persuasion and motivation. The process is led by an expert,
highly complex as well as multi-factorial (Hansen and Jespersen 2013).
Through the process of behaviour change the approach aims to achieve its goal of healthy
eating habits among the school children of Dartford. In order to achieve its goal, the persuasion
via one-to-one advice is the central suitable intervention such as taking a closer look at their
heart and making them understand the benefits of such a healthy approach (Michie, Atkins, and
West 2014). The method will be highly efficient in making people take responsibility for their
own health. People will be encouraged to take up a healthy lifestyle as well.
For the reason that the approach is entirely led by an expert, the dependent client and
victim ideology will be applied to the school children of Dartford. The approach becomes a
proactive one since the behaviour change is based on an individual client responsibility. The
client becomes highly prone to adopting a healthier lifestyle. The process of healthy living is a
way to save a massive sum of money that one can lose by getting operated for diseases that can
be caused due to unhealthy eating habits. Also, since the process is led by an expert, it will mean
that specialists will be given the chance to undertake the intervention’s implementation. The

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chances of making errors are very low when the experts are involved (Newton, Ewing and Finch
2013).
In the end, the result gained will be school children in Dartford changing their attitudes
and behaviour towards their way of life. Children in school will change their minds in regard to
healthy eating and probably move towards better healthy eating. The children will also reduce
the risk of obesity, heart disease and other related diseases. Better lifestyle will be observed
eliminating poverty.
Behaviour change approach is also impactful for the school children who have already
changed their behaviour as they will influence other people. Therefore, this method can run the
program as well as complete it along with affecting the larger population. School children with
changed perspective and behaviour in regard to eating habits and lifestyle will be the outcome of
the process. The approach will ensure school children in Dartford live a healthy life afar from
illness, poor eating habits and many more. Hence, it will lead to a healthy community.
The reasons for health promotion:
The reduction of premature mortality and morbidity along with ensuring illness and
disability-free is the reason for health promotion. The utilisation of medical intervention is used
for preventing premature demise and ill-health such as screening, fluoridation and immunization
(Blencowe et al. 2013). The process is depended on scientific methods lead by an expert, top-
down an emphasised on compliance (Lawn et al. 2014).
By the above discussion, it can be stated that more application to promote eating healthy
and intervention will improve school children’s health in Dartford. They will adopt healthy
eating (Ahluwalia 2015). Identification of the school children in Dartford with high-risk illness

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will to show the health profile of Dartford (COUNCIL 2014). To carry out this process, the
intervention of health remains the consultation through body mass measurements. Use expert-led
down and passive conforming clients for workers and client relationship. For example,
measuring the body mass will provide with the information of people who risk contracting
disease, and that would help to understand the healthy eating that eliminates risks of exposed
diseases (Scott et al. 2015).
Due to the fact that the relationship will be carried on by the expert, top-down, the matter
would be considered very professional. The notable risks can be recognised and treated through
healthy eating. Passive conforming will become helpful since the school children will effectively
make use of a healthy diet and eating habits. Nevertheless, the approach will provide a better and
straightforward perspective (Johnson et al. 2016). It would give a better perspective since it will
be examining the reduction in rates of mortality and illness. A direct way of evaluating this
intervention will be helping them gauge whether it was the right process or not. By any chance,
if it does not work, it would still be useful since it will give an early response before the client is
exposed to more risk. The community may alter the intervention on time in order to achieve the
goal (Siegler et al. 2014).
The main aim is to promote healthy eating among the school children is because there are
several advantages. It boosts knowledge and skills in regard to healthy lifestyles. The methods
need to be informative, and attitude exploration via small group work as well as the development
of skills. The relationship between the two members will include an expert and pretension of
negotiation as a matter of discussion.
The school children in Dartford should be aware of healthy foods that are essentially
nutritious and beneficial to the body. Another advantage is through the men health groups, the

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information on health especially focusing on the men would develop skills that are necessary for
healthy living. The process is of advantage in many circumstances. It is the women who prepare
the food, therefore when the focus is on women the entire family is beneficial (Feola 2015). The
experts have been successful in finding the attitudes to healthy eating and based on the same
information, the discussion and solution are made. While the bad habits or attitudes are removed
from the good ones, it is easy to figure out ways to include more effective steps. The process is
only beneficial when the approach will be taken with acute consideration and which involves
better involved and educated.
Promoting and improving health through communication and public health
campaign.
Communication is eventually the most important part of transmitting information.
Through this process education is transferred. The aim of using mass media is to show the role
that the health promoter plays in this setting as a facilitator and an analyst (McMillan et al.
2013).
Using of mass media is inclusive in the process or the intervention involving advocacy
and development. While promotion the attention is given to a single person at a time. The action
of health practitioner that influence and shape the decision with the decision making and policy
making is called the health advocacy (Springett 2001). It has certain control over the resources
that can influence or impact on matters related to health. The evaluation that is gained through
this process of empowerment is strict to mention specifically and quantify. However, it is
important to note that the outcome of the evaluation is based on the amount of degree to which
aims are already met. A person or community that have been empowered for this particular
intervention is the focus of the intervention (Arthur et al. 2013). The communication and health

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promotion campaign can use certain factors before making the decision of using mass media,
such as:
 Where there is a need for wide exposure
 When there is urgent time frame
 When public discussion is likely to facilitate the process of education.
 There is a need of support from media on an issue.
 Availability of local and community resources
 Budget is available
 The behavioral goal is simple
 There is an involvement of public relation (Naidoo and Wills 2016).
It is also important to know that it is not necessarily always successful. Strategies plays
vital role. Although all strategies are potentially beneficial, combining strategies are likely to
produce the best of results. The strategies that have too many objectives are risky. Therefore, it is
important to pay attention before choosing strategies and taking the decision of approaching
mass media.
Concussion:
In the end, the five approaches that are present to health promotions includes medical,
behaviour change, social change, empowerment as well as educational. Various approaches to
health promotion exist today such as educational, behaviour change, empowerment and social
change. They are presented and referenced deeply to showcase the ways health promotion can be
done among the school children of Dartford. The goal of the five approaches is to achieve the
habit of healthy eating. It helps in having a healthy population in Dartford. It is also believed that
by implementing this health promotion intervention, people becoming vulnerable to illness will

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only become a history. The result obtained from it would be a community that is backed up
sufficiently to make health better ways. Well-being would be accomplished by adopting healthy
eating in the community making a healthy lifestyle.

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