Transcript Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion

Applying the
Ottawa Charter
to Climate Change
Trevor Hancock, UVic | Jodi Mucha, BC Healthy Communities Society
PHABC Summer School
July 11, 2016
Ottawa Charter Strategies
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Establish healthy public policies,
Create supportive environments,
Strengthen community action,
Develop personal skills, and
Reorient health services
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986
Birth of Healthy Communities Movement
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Born out of Ottawa Charter (1986)
Focus on empowerment of citizens, communities & cities;
Place-based approaches to health and well-being;
Health promotion as a set of processes that raise awareness,
mobilize community participation, and develop the roles of
local government in public health.
• Population Health Lens: Focus on social and environmental
conditions that make some people healthy and others not .
• Social, Economic and Environmental Determinants of Health
Ottawa Charter: Top Down + Bottom Up
Top Down:
• Policy interventions
• Municipal bylaws
and policies
• Community Plans
Bottom Up:
• Participation
from engaged,
mobilized and
knowledgeable
communities
and citizens.
• In 1980’s focus on individual lifestyle changes on aggregate
scale.
• In 1990’s public health field evolved to focus more on social
and environmental conditions that influence health
behaviours and choices
Establishing healthy public policies
Creating supportive environments
Empowering community action
Developing personal skills
Reorienting health services
5 Pillars of Healthy Communities
Success Factors for Healthy Communities
Initiatives:
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Community Engagement
Multi-Sector Collaboration
Political Commitment
Healthy Public Policy
Asset-based Community Development