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Ottawa Charter in Action – National Chronic Disease Strategy
The National Chronic Disease Strategy is a great example of the Ottawa Charter in Action. The National Chronic Disease Strategy “seeks to improve health outcomes and reduce the impact of chronic disease by providing a framework of agreed national directions for improving chronic disease prevention and care across Australia.” (PDHPE Support doc)
The five action areas of the Ottawa Charter are: building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and reorienting health services. The National Chronic Disease Strategy was launched in 2005 and has grown since, and is a perfect health promotion initiative to link with the Ottawa Charter in action.
Examples of links to action areas of the Ottawa Charter
Build healthy public policy
The National Chronic Disease Strategy seeks to build workforce capacity in terms of availability and skills of nurses, doctors, and other health professions in addressing chronic disease. The National Chronic Disease Strategy seeks to reduce health inequalities by focusing on the needs of population groups disproportionately affected by chronic disease, and provide a flexible health system that can coordinate care planning across services, settings and sectors.
Create supportive environments
With the support of health care providers, the National Chronic Disease Strategy seeks to enhance people’s ability to make informed decisions and undertake the health actions necessary to maximise their wellbeing and quality of life. Under The National Chronic Disease Strategy the government has developed infrastructure and information technology support. And facilities have combined to provide care for people with chronic disease using a multidisciplinary approach. This includes GPs, community health centres, hospitals, and more.
Strengthen community actions
The National Chronic Disease Strategy seeks to provide culturally safe and appropriate approaches ain both prevention and care. The National Chronic Disease Strategy supports the contribution of family and carers, and encourage collaboration between health services, patients, families and carers. Furthermore, the National Chronic Disease Strategy seeks to empower population people groups to take control of their health status, specifically those disproportionately affected by chronic disease (ATSI, aged, socioeconomically disadvantaged, people with physical and mental disabilities).
Develop personal skills
The National Chronic Disease Strategy seeks to provide health promotion for the whole population, and provide training in skills to enhance a person’s capacity to take responsibility for their own health by reducing risk behaviours and promoting protective behaviours
Reorient health services
The National Chronic Disease Strategy provides significant, targeted and coordinated action focused on the reduction of risk behaviours. The government has increased funding in effective health promotion and risk reduction interventions, and has identified and implemented evidence-based and cost-effective approaches to early detection and treatment.
This summary is an example of the Ottawa Charter in action, focusing on the key action areas of the Ottawa Charter. It is worth mentioning that the Australian Government’s Department of Health has this year begun to develop The National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions in order to replace the National Chronic Disease Strategy as it is now 10 years old.
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*This post is based heavily on the pdhpe support document. You can also watch the HSC PDHPE youtube clip on the Tobacco Strategy below for another example.
