H&S Week 5

Question 1

What are the commonest causes of injury/death in children in Australia?

Answer 1

• Falls
• Drowning
• Burns
• Button batteries
• Hot cars (Tesla)
• Driveway runovers

Question 2

What is health advocacy?

Answer 2

Trying to influence policy and practices to improve the health of the population, including changing upstream factors like laws, regulations, and funding.

Question 3

What are the basic steps in health advocacy?

Answer 3

• What’s the issue?
• What’s the solution? (product)
• Who are we selling to? (avatar)
• Is societial timing right? (market)
• Are there smaller steps? (validation)
• Personal cost?

(basically marketing)