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HMS, HIC EQ-Bank 4 MC

A local council supported residents to establish community gardens and cooking programs to improve food security and nutrition in their neighborhood.

Which action area of the Ottawa Charter is this strategy an example of?

  1. Building healthy public policy
  2. Creating supportive environments
  3. Developing personal skills
  4. Strengthening community action
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\( D\)

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Consider option D:  Strengthening community action

    • Initiative empowers residents to take collective action for their own health outcomes
    • Shows community ownership and participation in identifying and addressing local health needs
    • Demonstrates community capacity building through shared gardens and programs
    • Council acts as facilitator while community leads and implements the health initiative
    • Focus is on collective community action rather than individual skills, policy or environment changes

\(\Rightarrow D\)

HMS, HIC EQ-Bank 3 MC

A hospital introduced Aboriginal Health Workers and cultural awareness training for staff to improve health outcomes for First Nations patients.

Which action area of the Ottawa Charter is this strategy an example of?

  1. Building healthy public policy
  2. Reorienting health services
  3. Developing personal skills
  4. Strengthening community action
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\( B\)

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Consider option B: Reorienting health services

→ Involves changing the way healthcare is organised and delivered to better meet population needs

→ The introduction of Aboriginal Health Workers represents a structural change to how hospital services are delivered

→ Cultural awareness training for staff is changing the way health professionals provide care to make it more culturally appropriate and responsive

→ The focus is on the healthcare organisation itself making changes to how it delivers services, which is a defining feature of reorienting health services

\(\Rightarrow B\)

HMS, HIC 2022 HSC 2 MC

To reduce the number of young people smoking, the sale of tobacco products to people under 18 years of age was made illegal.

Which action area of the Ottawa Charter is this strategy an example of?

  1. Developing personal skills
  2. Reorienting health services
  3. Building healthy public policy
  4. Strengthening community action
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\( C\)

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Consider option C: Building healthy public policy

A legislative measure:

    • Implemented through government policy.
    • Creates systemic change through regulation.
    • Uses laws to promote health.
    • Enforced at a governmental level not through individual skills, healthcare services, or community action.

\(\Rightarrow C\)