The Ottawa Charter

Since the first conference in Ottawa, it’s evident in the Jakarta Charter that the priorities for health promotion have been changed and refined to suit the changing and developing health systems (WHO 2014). When the Ottawa Charter was declared, the goal was to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond (WHO 2014). The Jakarta Conference was held in 1997, and therefore the goal must’ve been somewhat close or evident that many attempts were put in to achieve Health for All. These areas will be explored and argued, comparing both declarations.
The Ottawa Charter was designed in and used as a building block to establish strategies to improve health on a global scale (WHO 2014). The Ottawa Chart displays three basic prerequisites in its logo which includes: advocate, enable and mediate (WHO 2014). It is stated that a stable foundation of these three prerequisites will allow individuals to improve their health (WHO 2014). The basic fundamental resource and conditions to maintain health remains unchanged since the Ottawa and Jakarta conference; this indicates that the knowledge on creating a healthy community is there however, strategies must be formed to take action (WHO 2014). The Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion was built

WHO (2014) states that the inextricable links between people and their environment constitutes the basis for a socioecological approach to health. There has been research conducted regarding the uses of the Ottawa Charter’s five health promoting strategies which aimed to improve the health of the community as well as to develop the health promotion centre (Lee et al. 2009, pp.83-84). In order to create a supportive environment for the community health promotion centers, awareness was raised through various ways where television, newspaper and the internet were most effective (Lee et al. 2009, pp.87 &