Health Promotion

The Ottawa Charter:

• Is based on a biomedical approach to health

• Is outdated and rarely used by health promoters

• Promotes the orientation of health services towards curative medicine

• Is known as the comprehensive action framework for health promotion

The proximal determinants of health are addressed via which Ottawa Charter strategy?

• Building Healthy Public Policy

• Strengthening Community Action

• Developing Personal Skills

• Reorienting Health Services

The Bangkok Charter (2005) recognised that changing global circumstances impacted on a population’s ability to be healthy.  These included:

• a. Complex determinants of health

• b. The threat of war and terrorism

• c. Both a and b

• d. Neither a or b

In addressing the growing obesity issue in children in Australia, most school tuck shops offer healthy food choices to “make the healthier choice the easier choice” for children.  This is an example of:

• Creating Supportive Environments

• Strengthening Community Action

• Developing Personal Skills

• The Ottawa Charter

Building healthy public policy recognises that most private and public policies that affect health lie outside of the traditional health sector.

• True

• False