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Jakarta Declaration

Jakarta Declaration is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Jakarta Declaration rather than just read about it. In short: The Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century, officially the Fourth International Conference on Health Promotion: New Players for a New Era – Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century, was a meeting on health promotion held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 21–25 July 1997 that resulted in the signing of an international declaration on health by member states of the World Health Organizati…

Key takeaways

Jakarta Declaration belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Jakarta Declaration to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Jakarta Declaration from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century, officially the Fourth International Conference on Health Promotion: New Players for a New Era – Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century, was a meeting on health promotion held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 21–25 July 1997 that resulted in the signing of an international declaration on health by member states of the World Health Organization (WHO). The Jakarta Declaration followed and built off previous global health agreements, including previous International Conferences on Health Promotion held in Ottawa in 1986, Adelaide in 1988 and Sundsvall in 1991. The declaration reiterated the importance of agreements made in the Ottawa Charter, and added emphasis to certain aspects of health promotion. The Ottawa Charter defines health promotion as the "process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health" with the ultimate goal of increasing health expectancy and narrowing health expectancy gaps between different groups and countries. The main purpose of the Jakarta Declaration was to build off the original strategies set out by the Ottawa Charter to meet emerging threats to health in the 21st century. As such, it included five priorities for future health promotion: promoting social responsibility, increasing investments for health developments, consolidating and expanding health partnerships, increase community capacity and empowering individuals, and securing the proper infrastructure for health promotion.

About the Declaration The Jakarta Declaration included the following five "priorities for health promotion in the 21st century":

1. "Promote social responsibility for health" 2. "Increase investments for health development" 3. "Consolidate and expand partnerships for health" 4. "increase community capacity and empower the individual" 5. "Secure an infrastructure for health promotion" The declaration recognizes that":

Participation is necessary for change. Health literacy is essential for participation – emphasizes the need for access to education and information and hence, the empowerment of individuals and communities. Combinations of five strategies for health promotion – "build healthy public policy", "create supportive environments", "strengthen community action", "develop personal skills", and "reorient health services"—are more effective than "single-track approaches".

Promotion of the Declaration In the United Kingdom, the central message of the Jakarta declaration is similar to the government's current health policy. That is the emphasis on infrastructure and investment, with the hope of empowering the service user with choice.

See also Health promotion Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World Healthy city Alliance for Healthy Cities Primary health care Public health World Health Organization

References

Further reading Ewles L, Simnett I (2003) Promoting health: a practical guide. London: Baillière Tindall. 5th ed. ISBN 0-7020-2663-8.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Jakarta Declaration

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Jakarta Declaration claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Jakarta Declaration before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Jakarta Declaration ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Jakarta Declaration

In research: Jakarta Declaration appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Jakarta Declaration in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Jakarta Declaration is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Health promotion, World Health Organization, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Jakarta Declaration outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Jakarta Declaration in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Jakarta Declaration means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Jakarta Declaration out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Jakarta Declaration matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Jakarta Declaration?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Jakarta Declaration.