Ottawa Charter's Impact on Family Violence Health Programs

This essay examines the Victorian projects for the primary prevention of violence against women, a health promotion program addressing family violence, guided by the Ottawa Charter. The essay analyzes how the program utilizes the six action areas of the Ottawa Charter: Build Healthy Public Policy, Create Supportive Environments, Strengthen Community Action, Develop Personal Skills, Reorient Health Services, and Moving into the Future. It explores the concepts of health literacy, health education, and health promotion in empowering vulnerable groups, primarily women and children affected by domestic violence. The discussion highlights the nurse's role in this program, emphasizing their involvement in providing support, education, and advocacy. The essay also examines the program's effectiveness and future directions, underlining the significance of community engagement, policy interventions, and individual empowerment in combating family violence and promoting overall well-being. The essay concludes by emphasizing the program's alignment with the Ottawa Charter's principles and its potential for continued success and expansion to address emerging challenges and reach a wider audience.

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Introduction:
Family violence encompasses a variety of actions that an individual has committed
towards a family member. All conduct aims at controlling a family member through fear, and
includes sexual abuse, physical abuse, spiritual violence, emotional and mental abuse,
deliberately destroying any property of the family member, or conducting anything that can
question the safety or safe feelings of the family member (Espelage et al., 2014). Family
violence has the ability to cause physical and mental damage. The effect is so adverse that
some children who witness family violence can become aggressive teenagers because of
learned behavior since they feel like their environment requires control. Family violence, like
homelessness, can impact physical and psychological health and contribute to community
related and/or social problems (Reyes et al., 2015).
The First Global Health Promotion Conference was organized in November 1986, in Ottawa,
Canada. The conference was mainly a reaction to rising demands around the globe for a
global public health movement. Discussions centered on requirements within developed
nations, however in all other areas specific issues were taken into account. Health promotion
is the mechanism that individuals can gain influence of their wellbeing and strengthen it.
Health promotion is viewed as a daily tool, and not limited to only the lifestyle (World Health
Organization, 2020).
Discussion:
The key health-influencing concerns include food, housing, security, employment,
education, a healthy environment, good natural capital, social justice, and equality are
affirmed as primary human rights as per Ottawa charter. The Ottawa Charter has identified
three specific strategies to be effective in promoting health and these are advocacy for health,

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next is the circumstances enable both individuals to know their complete wellbeing potential,
and lastly mediating between the various classes and the promotion of wellbeing
(Euro.who.int, 2020).
Build Healthy Public Policy:
The health care program are rooted to the ground and stresses upon the policymaker
to promote the plans. The plurality of joint efforts examined involved service provision that
served as the beginning point for involvement in the police and courts structures. . Victorian
projects for the primary prevention of violence against women worked to build a paradigm
that would deliver comprehensive criminal justice framework and domestic abuse
intervention programs. Victorian projects for the primary prevention of violence against
women recognized service delivery gaps through interviewing the service users as well as
service providers (Gillum, 2014). The plan develop training sessions were held on the basis
of defined service issues, innovative service implementation approaches are evaluated and the
goal of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was obtained. Comprehensive interagency
operating protocols and a variety of services have signed them including the detailed integrity
of MOU guidelines. Obstacles to this form of system were detected as the myths about
the domestic violence, service limits, security issues especially due to rural environment and
changes in staffing (Demas, 2014).
Create Supportive Environments:
Health is not an isolated from than the other priorities of community and so the
provision of welcoming conditions in a health promotion program is necessary (Tacconelli et
al., 2018). The Victorian projects for the primary prevention of violence against women
followed the guidelines framed by Ottawa Charter health promotion, 1986. Two of the five
focus areas defined by the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is the development of
welcoming environments. Positive and supportive environments provide security to

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an individuals from causes that may endanger their health. This encourage health engagement
and enable people to develop their expertise and personal self-reliance. This aspect is also
important for a pragmatic approach to health focused on the patient professionally called
person centered care. Supportive environment are also considered as supportive settings.
Settings apply to self developing environments such as classrooms, clinics, offices and cities
to stay, study, function, and play (Thompson, Watson & Tilford, 2018).
Strengthen Community Action:
This approach mobilizes and encourages groups to tackle societal expectations in their
cultures that make violence against women (VAW ) appropriate. This plan also
increases neighbourhood exposure to social services and tackle broader group-level factors
that lead to VAW, such as elevated early school leaving levels or regional aggressive peer
cultures. Sustained contact, multi-strategy, and social media strategies can be successful
when paired with individual interaction or community education. It covers visual media,
radio, printed media, access to internet, and social networking. This also include community
arts targeted at increasing VAW awareness and questioning perceptions, habits and societal
standards. Communications can contain clear and reliable primary messaging customized to
specific target groups (Omorogiuwa, 2017).
Develop Personal Skills:
The acquisition of personal skills involves the improvement of health consciousness,
essential motor skills and an awareness of the links between harmful habits and lifestyle
disorders. This encourages healthy practices and offers the opportunity to access
of healthy environment and evaluate people’s knowledge objectively. It concerns such things
that give definition about balanced diet. The plan should stress upon giving knowledge that
can interpret dietary facts on food labelling, road safety, awareness and skills in mental and
sexual wellbeing. Nevertheless, learning personal skills is beyond to that limit about physical

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health-specific skills and expertise, although both are included. It provides a wider viewpoint,
which aims to promote healthy learning that encourages people to be involved across all
health aspects and maintain optimal health. This implies experience and expertise in social
environments, family dynamics, moral issues, purpose of life, mental and emotional health
both are associated to professional skill growth. Promising approaches include technical
acquisition and corporate capability for personal skill development as well as VAW gender
equity and awareness community serves as the personal development of an individual. The
leadership services recognizing and assisting prominent, non-violent people to
endorse gender equity and VAW protection (Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 2020).
Reorient Health Services:
Health services reorientation is mainly around the health system moving from
concentrating solely on medicinal and curative programs to concentrating predominantly on
health promotion as well as prevention. This is the field of practice to reorient health systems
in order to incorporate and broaden their role in supporting preventive health. As per Ottawa
Charter Health services should adopt an extend of responsive mandate that identifies cultural
priorities. The initiative would meet peoples and societies' interest to live a healthy life, and
expand pathways across the health system and wider components of the societal, physical
economic and cultural factors. Reorienting health services contradicts the clinical-care
strategy, which treats the body as different components and relies on disease and disease
therapies. This allows for a changes in behaviour and organisation in community care that
refocuses on the individual's overall interests as a whole. The central ideology considers the
health consequences of all the determinants and defines wellbeing as not limited to the lack
of illness, but a productive condition that can be achieved spontaneously. Depending on all
the factors Ottawa Charter calls for the health industry to engage in health promotion
programs aimed at reducing disease, enhancing safety and minimizing illness. These

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strategies include health services such as immunization services, cancer prevention, mental
health counselling and stop smoking programs, and weight loss. In Australia some of
Medicare's extension provides a protection for physiotherapist, and physiologist therapy is
heading towards this strategy. The Victorian projects for the primary prevention of violence
against women project incorporate counselling, community services, recreation centre, sports
and art culture programs to ensure the overall well-being of the individual, especially
targeting people who suffered severe trauma of violence. The children who are victim of
family violence are also applicable to get such services to cure themselves. Moreover,
government support and the organizational funding also used for the therapeutic treatment of
chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, obesity and so on in this plan (World Health
Organization, 2016).
Moving into the Future:
Health is produced and experienced in the environments of their daily lives of
individuals. Health is generated by self-care or getting cared by anyone, the empowerment of
making decision and having control of all the positive or negative episodes in life, and
promoting the residential environment to be able to provide structures that enable all its
participants to pursue wellbeing. Caring behaviour, altruism and biodiversity are critical
problems when designing health promotion policies. The concerns also can be counted as a
driving standard that women and men would play as equal participants in all the steps of the
preparation, delivery, and assessment of health promotion programs. This dimension of the
Ottawa Charter includes the program's probability and holism, and the mechanism it assures
the attendees a healthier standard of living. This comprehensive project, which took effect
during 2013 and 2017, was widely considered a successful. The continuation motivate the
Victorian projects for the primary prevention of violence against women to incorporate more
advanced program to eliminate all the trace of violence from the society. The VAW program

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is still ongoing and in future it will gain more popularity by engaging more participants and
covering more area of problems (World Health Organization, 2020).
Conclusion:
It can be concluded from the above study that the Victorian projects for the primary
prevention of violence against women is targeted towards the woman that are facing violence
every day or had a history of violence. The plan applied majorly for domestic violence as the
women are the primary victim of the family violence. The program is strongly guided by
Ottawa Charter Action Areas and can be considered as an successful and effective program to
stop domestic violence.

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