The 1997 Jakarta Declaration reaffirms the principles of the Ottawa charter and urges health promotion to build on and expand partnerships for health with all sectors of the community. It promotes social responsibility for health, the provision of supportive environments and a settings approach for the promotion of health. Examples of community involvement with initiatives include Stop Revive Survive; rather then imposing on them the community is working with together. There is also a greater responsibility for individuals towards their health to change behaviours example: ‘Active Australia’ and ‘Exercise. You only have to take it regularly, not seriously’ encourages physical recreation.
Jacarta points---
1. Promote social responsibility for health. This priority urged public and private sectors to promote health by pursuing polices and practices tat:
+avoid harming the health of individuals
+protect the environment and ensure sustainable use of resources
+restrict production of, and trade in, inherently harmful goods and substances such as tobacco and armaments, as well as discouraging unhealthy marketing practices.
+safeguard both the citizen in the marketplace and the individual in the workplace
2. Increase investments for health development in all sectors
3. Consolidate and expand partnerships for health
4. Increase community capacity and empower the individual. This priority stresses that health promotion is carried out by and with people, not on or to people. It improves both the ability of individuals to take action and the capacity of groups, organisations or communities to influence the determinants of health.
5. Secure an infrastructure for health promotion. To secure such an infrastructure, new mechanisms for funding health promotion should be found from governments, non-gov organisations, educational institutes and the private sector.
