Key Components Of The Ottawa Charter

Developed on 21st November 1986, the Ottawa Charter aims to improve global health and health promotion through five key areas; develop personal skills, create supportive environments, strengthen community action, reorient health services and build healthy public policy. By working within these five areas, the National Tobacco Strategy has proven to be successful in the cession of smoking.
A key component of the Ottawa Charter, develop person skills enables people to make informed and educated decisions surrounding their health. It promotes, advertises and informs of healthy choices, and educates and warns against health risks. The National Tobacco Strategy fulfils this requirement in many ways. In their collection of “Every Cigarette is Doing
This requires community, residential, educational and employment areas to support and influence good health. Accessible from anywhere in Australia at most hours of the day and night, Quitline is a free, confidential and individually tailored service that is proven to double the chances of quitting smoking. Their ability to provide advice, information, encouragement, support and strategies supports smokers in their difficult battle with the addiction. It allows them to have help in their journey with ease from any environment in their life style. For those not comfortable with that service or finding it to not work, QuitCoach is also available. While less personal, it helps to encourage, organise, educate and support smokers in their process to quit. As a phone and online service, it is also accessible in a variety of areas, thus making them more supportive. Implemented in 2000, the Smoke-free Environment act bans smoking in enclosed public places and certain outdoor public areas, protecting people from harmful second hand tobacco smoke. The areas include within 10 metres of children’s play equipment in outdoor public places, public swimming pools, spectator areas at sports grounds or other recreational areas used for organised sporting events, public transport stops and platforms; including ferry wharves and taxi ranks and within 4 metres of a pedestrian access point to a public building. This act not only protects non-smokers, but helps to encourage smokers to quit and support others in the process of quitting by separating them from smoke. Through supportive environments, attempts to quit smoking can be much more successful and