Foundations Of Health Promotion
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Promoting Health: The Basics
Empowerment is a strategy that gives people more control over choices and actions that impact their health.
People who actively participate in decision-making are said to be participative.
Holistic means considering all factors that may impact health, including their interactions.
Equitable means ensuring that service users receive fair results.
Intersectoral means collaborating with other pertinent agencies or organizations.
Sustainable means ensuring the effects of health promotion initiatives can be maintained over time.
Multi-Strategy: working on several areas of strategy, such as policies and programs.
With the publication of the Ottawa Charter in 1986, the World Health Organization assumed a leading position in efforts to promote health in the 1980s. According to this, health promotion takes place at five critical levels.
Achieving Personal Growth
Developing Comfortable Environments
Increasing Community Engagement
the creation of public policy
shifting the focus of health services.
Applying the Ottawa Charter to the Field of Youth Work – Educating young people about health
Achieving Personal Growth
Youth organizations positively impact the development of personal skills, such as self-esteem, self-efficacy, communication, negotiation, life skills, and motivation, through the wide range of programs and activities they provide to young people, including health education and health information. The improvement of these abilities benefits one’s health.
Developing Comfortable Environments
Youth organizations support health education and “making the healthier choice, the easier choice” by providing young people and staff with opportunities to discuss and explore health issues and practice health-enhancing behaviors. For instance, providing healthy food options in the tuck shop, providing healthy snacks for after-school clubs, providing a smoke-free environment, and implementing an anti-bully policy are just a few examples of how youth organizations create safe and secure physical and social environments.
Boost Community Engagement
Youth organizations can increase capacity and positively impact community health by forming partnerships and alliances with other organizations and sectors in the area. This will allow them to continue to support the health of their target populations who live in the area, for example, by delivering parent programs and collaborating with healthy towns initiatives.
Providing Public Health Policy
Youth organizations demonstrate evidence-based practice by developing health-related policies internally. These policies, such as those on substance use and sexual health, should be in place to support training. To support their work related to health and the health of their target groups, youth organizations also have a critical role in raising awareness and advocating for public policy development and change, such as national alcohol policy.
Refocus the healthcare industry
Youth organizations play a critical role in promoting the creation and delivery of health services that can meet the needs of young people. For instance, youth organizations can raise awareness of the need for and promote providing adolescent-friendly health services for young people.
Foundations Of Health Promotion
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