Jakarta declaration on Health promotion.pptx

Presented By:
Babita Shrestha
MPH II semester, SAHS

 Background
 Introduction
 Need of Jakarta Declaration
 Five priority areas
 Priorities for the alliance
 Conclusion
 References

 The Fourth International Conference on Health Promotion.
 International agreement that was signed at the World Health Organization
(WHO).
 Held on 21-25th July, 1997 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
 1st conference to be held in developing countries.
 It has provided an opportunity to re-examine the determinants of health,
and to identify the directions and strategies that must be adopted to
address the challenges of promoting health in the 21st century.
 Held 20 years after Alma Ata conference (1978) and 11 years after Ottawa
declaration (1986).

 Involved private sectors in supporting health promotion.
 Theme of Declaration: “New players of new era, leading health promotion
in 21st century”.
 It reflects the firm commitment of participants in the Fourth International
Conference on Health Promotion to draw upon the widest possible range
of resources to tackle health determinants in the 21st century.
Determinants of health: new challenges.

• “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase
control over, and to improve their health.”(A/c to WHO)
• Health promotion is the science and art of helping people change
their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.
(American Journal of heath promotion, 1989)

The declarations for action for health promotion for 21St century are:
1. Health promotion is a key investment:
Identified direction and strategies required to address challenges of promoting
health in 21st century to increase health expectancy between countries and
groups.
2. New responses are needed
 To address emerging threats to health; new forms of action are needed.
 Use of health promotion to its potential in many sectors, i.e among local
communities within families, etc.
 Cooperation is essential; creating a new partnership sectors at all levels of
governance in society.

3. Health promotion makes a difference:
 Health promotion strategies can develop and change lifestyle and have an
impact on social, economic and environmental conditions determining
health.
 It’s a practical approach to achieve greater equity in health.
 Priority action areas of Ottawa charter need to be considered for success
of health promotion (Build healthy public policy, create supportive
environments, strengthen community action, develop personal skills,
reorient health services)

4. Health promotion is a valuable investment
 Health is a basic human right and essential for social and economic
development.
 The Jakarta Declaration on health promotion offers a vision and focus for
health promotion into the next century.
 It reflects the firm commitment of participants at the 4th International
Conference on Health Promotion to draw upon the widest range of
resources to tackle health determinants in the 21st century.

5. Determinants of health: new challenges
Demographic trends such as:
Urbanization, an increase in the number of older people, and the
prevalence of chronic diseases pose new problems in all countries. Other
social, behavioral, and biological changes such as increased sedentary
behavior, resistance to antibiotics, increased drug abuse, and civil and
domestic violence, threaten the health and well-being of hundreds of
millions of people.

Promote social responsibility for health
(public and private).
Increase investment for health
development.
Consolidate (unite and expand partnership
for health).
Increase community capacity and empower
individual.
Secure an infrastructure for health
promotion

 Decision makers must be firmly committed to social responsibility.
Following policies and practices need to be considered by both; public and
private sectors to promote health:
Avoid harming the health of other individual.
Protect environment and ensure sustainable use of resources.
Restrict production and trade of harmful goods such as tobacco, as well as
discourage unhealthy marketing practices.
Safeguard both the citizen in the marketplace and the individual in the
workplace.
Include equity-focused health impact assessments.

 In many countries (e.g. : Nepal, India..), current investment in health is
inadequate and often ineffective.
 Multi- sectoral investment approach in health promotion, within or among
countries for increasing of the investment.
 Additional resources in education, housing and in health sector.
 Investment should reflect needs of particular groups such as women,
children, older people, and indigenous, poor and marginalized
populations.
 Greater investment for health and reorientation of existing investments,
both within and among countries, has the potential to achieve significant
advances in human development, health and quality of life.

 Partnership should be strengthened between different sectors for health
and social development.
 Existing partnerships need to be strengthened and new partnerships must
be explored.
 Partnership allows mutual benefit for health among different sectors in
terms of sharing expertise, skill and resources.

 Health promotion means: “by and with the people” NOT “on or to the
people”
 Health promotion improves: Ability of individual, capacity of groups,
organization or communities to influence the determinants of health.
 Improving the capacity of communities for health promotion requires
practical education, leadership training, and access to resources.
 Empowering individuals demands more consistent, reliable access to the
decision-making process and the skills and knowledge essential to effect
change.

 To secure an infrastructure for health promotion, new mechanisms for
funding it locally, nationally and globally must be found.
 New health challenges mean that new and diverse networks need to be
created to achieve inter sectoral collaboration.
 All country should develop the appropriate political/legal, educational,
social and economic environment required to support health promotion.
 Incentives should be developed to influence the actions of governments,
nongovernmental organizations, educational institutions and the private
sector to make sure that resource mobilization for health promotion is
maximized.

 Raising awareness about the changing determinants of health; Supporting
the development of collaboration and networks for health development;
 Mobilization of resources for health promotion;
 Accumulating knowledge on best practice;
 Enabling shared learning;
 Promoting solidarity in action;
 Fostering transparency and public accountability in health promotion.

Jakarta declaration of health promotion were covered in a
broad and nonspecific manner, in relation to what they
represented within the scenario of globalized societies and
how they could contribute effectively toward promoting
social equity and health for all.
This declaration majorly emphasized the importance of social
responsibility, increased investments, partnerships, and
community empowerment for health promotion.

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