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Ottawa Charter, Disease Progression, and Prevention Levels

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Summary

Health promotion helps people and communities gain greater control over the factors that influence their health. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, adopted in 1986, provides a widely used framework for this work. Nurses can apply its ideas in clinical care, community programs, and population-level policy efforts.

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was created at the first International Conference on Health Promotion in Ottawa, Canada, in 1986. It established a shared direction for health promotion and emphasized that health is shaped not only by health services, but also by social, economic, and environmental conditions.

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What is health promotion?
Enabling people to increase control over and improve their health, while supporting personal abilities and improving the conditions that influence health.
What are the Ottawa Charter’s five action areas?
Build healthy public policy; create supportive environments; strengthen community action; develop personal skills; and reorient health services.
What are the five stages in the natural history of disease?
Underlying, susceptible, subclinical, clinical, and recovery, disability, or death.
How do primary and secondary prevention differ?
Primary prevention aims to prevent disease before it occurs; secondary prevention aims to detect disease early.
What is quaternary prevention?
Protecting people from medical interventions that are unlikely to help and may cause more harm than good.

Quiz questions

  1. In which stage of the natural history of disease is disease present without recognizable clinical findings?Answer: Subclinical
  2. What is the main target of primordial prevention?Answer: Conditions that could give rise to risk factors
  3. Which prevention level aims to reduce complications and disability from established disease?Answer: Tertiary prevention
  4. Which approach applies a prevention strategy broadly, including to people who may not be at high risk?Answer: Population approach
  5. A nurse coordinates among schools, community organizations, and health providers around a health concern. Which Ottawa Charter strategy is this?Answer: Mediate

Based on Population Health for Nurses by Jessica Ochs, Sherry L. Roper, Susan M. Schwartz (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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