Programs Flashcards
Name program aimed at improving health outcomes of Indigenous Australians
Baby One
Aboriginal Quitline
Aim of Baby One?
To close the gap re health of Indigenous babies and toddlers to support improved health outcomes as they grow older.
Who does Baby One Target and where?
- Targets Indigenous pregnant women in remote Cape York.
Implementation of Baby One?
- Provides at home visits by Indigenous health care workers throughout pregnancy until a baby is 1000 days old.
- Incentives e.g. baby baskets, fruit and vegetable vouchers for being involved.
- Health workers share timely health promotion messages to educate families e.g. the importance of immunisations, the risk of smoking during pregnancy and around children, breastfeeding and the introduction of solids.
How Baby One reflects Create Supportive Environments?
- Culturally appropriate as led by Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander health workers
- Home visit = safe and satisfying as people visited in comfort of own home.
How Baby One reflects Strengthen Community Action?
Local community members run the program which provides job opportunities and builds links between individuals and community; also ownership over the effectiveness of program in their own community
How Baby One reflects Develop Personal Skills?
Education = home visits by healthcare workers to teach knowledge and skills re pregnancy and smoking, immunisations, breastfeeding, solid foods, etc.
How Baby One reflects Reorient Health Services?
Healthcare workers providing education for prevention e.g. no smoking during pregnancy to prevent low birth weight babies rather than biomedical interventions needed e.g. special care for low-birth-weight babies
Aim of Aboriginal Quitline?
To provide Indigenous smokers with customised assistance to help with attempts to quit smoking.
Effective features of Aboriginal Quitline?
Culturally appropriate as it uses counsellors trained in how to provide a ‘culturally safe environment’ therefore increasing the willingness of callers to engage with quitting smoking.
Accessible because it is a free telephone line and those in regional and remote areas can gain access to it therefore increasing engagement.
Evidence of success as it has ‘increased the success of quitting by up to 5%’ therefore proving it is working towards its aim of supporting Indigenous Australians to quit smoking
Suggestion for improvement (increase effectiveness) for Aboriginal Quitline?
However, to further increase its capacity the AQ could secure funding allowing it to run 24hrs a day therefore reaching more Indigenous Australians who would like to quit
Name program targeting smoking in Australia
My Quit Buddy
Aboriginal Quitline
Why is smoking targeted by health promotion in Australia?
B/C smoking a high contributor to burden of disease (morbidity and mortality rates)
B/C smoking has high economic and social (including health) costs e..g loss of productivity, public healthcare costs which can be reduced as conditions linked to smoking are largely preventable.
B/C smoking impacts on vulnerable population groups disproportionally e.g. Low SES, those living in regional and remote locations and Indigenous populations
Aim of My Quit Buddy
To help people quit smoking and stay smoke free
Implementation of My Quit Buddy
Free mobile phone app that targets those wanting to quit or planning to quit smoking in the future.
- Distractions e.g. games for when they experience cravings and nominating danger times for smoking when the app will send messages of support to keep people on track.
- Online community of other people quitting smoking where participants can send and receive messages of support.
- Educational providing information about how quitting smoking can benefit the body e.g. lower stroke risk.
It shows total money saved since not buying cigarettes and time elapsed since last cigarette to keep individuals motivated.
