Which Ottawa Charter action area focuses on empowering individuals with information and lifelong learning to improve health?

• A. Build Healthy Public Policy
• B. Develop Personal Skills
• C. Reorient Health Services
• D. Strengthen Community Action

Answer: (B)

Develop Personal Skills is about empowering people with information and lifelong learning to improve their health. It emphasizes education, skill-building, and access to information that enable individuals to take control of their health decisions now and throughout life. This includes things like health education programs, improving health literacy, and resources that help people understand risks and adopt healthier behaviors over time. The other action areas focus more on changing policies, shaping how services are delivered, or mobilizing communities, rather than on individual empowerment through education and ongoing learning.