KK3: Prerequisites

• Prerequisites of the Ottawa Charter

  
  

  Shelter

  A stable ecosystem

  Food

  Education

  Peace

  Income

  Sustainable resources

  Social justice

  Equity
• The Ottawa Charter for health promotion

  • In 1986 the World Health Organisation (WHO) held an international health conference in Ottawa, Canada
  • Key objective: To provide guidance to governments and other groups on how to improve the health and wellbeing of all people worldwide
  • Resulting document is known as the Ottawa Charter, includes 9 prerequisites
• Shelter - A physical structure that provides protection from the outside environment
• Prerequisite: Shelter

  • Adequate shelter protects individuals from exposure to elements (wind/snow/rain) - reduces the individual's risk of developing conditions such as hypothermia (physical H&W)
  • Adequate shelter promotes feelings of privacy, safety and security by having doors and windows that lock, reducing the ability of others breaking in, reducing stress and anxiety (mental H&W)
• A stable ecosystem - The balance between the landscape and species (both plants and animals) that live in an environment
• Prerequisite: A stable ecosystem

  The ecosystem provides many resources for health, including food, water and air.

  A balanced ecosystem means that these resources are available for human use and can regenerate as quickly as they are used.
• Prerequisite: A stable ecosystem

  • Results in plant species being readily available to provide supplies of active ingredients used in medicine such as aspirin, can reduce pain and inflammation in an individual and increase their ability to complete physical tasks adequately (physical H&W)
  • Natural environments (e.g. forests) may be used as a refuge to escape from stresses of urban life and allow an individual to feel a sense of connectedness/belonging to the world (spiritual H&W)
• Sustainable resources - Refer to ensuring that the resources used to promote health and wellbeing in the present are available for future generations, so they too can experience a good quality of life
• Social justice - Can be defined in a number of ways, but the common underlying theme is equal rights for all, regardless of personal traits such as sex, class and income, ethnicity, religion, age or sexual orientation
• Equity - Disadvantaged groups are targeted to improve their quality of life and achieve minimum standards of living