Development of a community health promotion center based on the World Health Organization's Ottawa Charter health promotion strategies.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the development process of nursing school-led community health promotion centers (CHPC) to improve the health of the surrounding communities.


METHODS
This study design was a research and development study. (i) Assessment of health needs by interviewing 359 people in the community to select health programs for the community health promotion center. (ii) Five health promotion strategies from the Ottawa Charter were applied to develop the community health promotion center for a city community.


RESULTS
(i) The people in the community had higher socioeconomic status levels and better health behaviors compared to the general Korean population, and they also listed chronic health problem management as their first priority health service. (ii) Development of the community health promotion center was done based on the five World Health Organization's Ottawa Charter Health Promotion Strategies: build healthy public policy, create supportive environments, strengthen community actions, develop personal skills, and reorient health services.


CONCLUSIONS
The present study showed that the WHO's five Ottawa Charter Health Promotion Strategies were useful for developing health promotion centers in the community.
Lee
Chung Yul
CY
College of Nursing, Yonsei University, Nursing Policy Research Institute, Seoul, Korea.
Kim
Hee Soon
HS
Ahn
Yang Hee
YH
Ko
Il Sun
IS
Cho
Yoon Hee
YH
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014944:World Health Organization