Ottawa Charter

How the Ottawa Charter is evident in Health Promotion Strategies Strategy | Build healthy public policy | Create supportive environments | Strengthen community action | Develop personal skills | Reorients health service | QUIT | laws relating to smoking in public places, tobacco advertising, the display of cigarettes in retail outlets, tobacco packaging and tobacco taxes. | Providing personalised counselling for those wanting to stop smoking - Quitline, a telephone service that people can ring to receive advice and support when quitting smoking. | Assisting health professionals, community groups and various population groups to develop anti-smoking strategiesProvides specialist training for health professionals and funding for community and population groups to aid with decreasing smoking prevalence. E.g. Quit funds the Aboriginal Tobacco Control Coordinator position. Allows communities to get together to make other members aware of smoking. | Provides information in relation to the risk associated with smoking and the benefits associated with not smoking. Through this, people are educated about the risks and why to quit.Helps people develop skills and strategies to actually quit smoking, such as inhibiting their cravings. | Invests money into smoking prevention research. This is effective as the research then provides the best ways to reduce the amount of people starting to smoke and therefore reduce prevalence of illnesses associated with smoking such as cardiovascular disease and various types of cancers. | SunSmart | SunSmart has developed a range of public health policies that can be adapted to individual child care centres, kindergartens, schools and workplaces. The “no hat no play policy”. Therefore students are less likely to be sunburnt, reducing skin cancer risk. | Improving environmental protection strategies, such as shade audits, options for built and natural shade and promoting the SunSmart UV AlertProvide buildings and areas with