Retorno a Ottawa 1986

Ottawa 1986: back to the future.

When Ottawa’s starting pistol was fired in the snow blizzards of November 1986, who would have thought that the health promotion race would have sped so long and so hard without roads? Across the world, there are government health promotion strategies and reviews, statutory authorities and foundations, consumer interest groups, professional associations and journals. University departments and ...

1986 , Volume , Issue Apr-1986

A salutogenic interpretation of the Ottawa Charter.

Twenty years have passed since the philosophy and principals were formulated in the Ottawa Charter for health promotion. A critical reflection of the content and success of the Ottawa Charter was published before the IUHPE World Conference in Vancover in June 2007. This paper contextualizes and discusses Salutogenesis and Antonovsky in the development of health promotion practice and research a...

The Ottawa Charter at 25.

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion was created 25 years--a whole generation--ago, and this tribute to the Charter and some of its key authors was given at the CPHA Conference in June 2011. The Charter placed on the agenda for health promotion and public health a set of issues and challenges that we are still a long way from fully addressing. Among the key ideas and values in the Charter ar...

The Ottawa patient decision aids.

CONTEXT Shared decision-making programs, or patient decision aids, have been developed for difficult decisions in which patients need to consider benefits versus risks. PRACTICE PATTERN EXAMINED Decision aids currently used in practice in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. DATA SOURCES Published studies of patients faced with decisions about hormone therapy, prenatal testing, lung cancer treatments, ...