What actions are needed to address Australia's health priorities? Flashcards
The benefits of partnership in health promotion
- Increase capacity to improve health for all
- ensures cost-effectiveness
- able to combine knowledge and skill sets
- greater understanding of health needs e.g governments collect epidemiological data to identify priority health issues
- A prime example of collaboration is health organisations and the school sector: Healthy Harold, healthy school canteens, school fun runs
The Ottawa charter action areas
- developing personal skills
- knowledge that empowers individuals to make healthy life choices - creating supportive environments
- addresses the influence of a person’s environment on health - strengthening community action
- empowers communities to implement action to address their specific health needs - reorienting health services
- shifting the focus to prevention rather than cure - building healthy public policy
- developing and implementing preventative health legislation and policies
The Ottawa charter action areas
- developing personal skills
- knowledge that empowers individuals to make healthy life choices - creating supportive environments
- addresses the influence of a person’s environment on health - strengthening community action
- empowers communities to implement action to address their specific health needs - reorienting health services
- shifting the focus to prevention rather than cure - building healthy public policy
- developing and implementing preventative health legislation and policies
The Ottawa charter aims
Advocate:
- Major resource for social, economic, and personal development and an important dimension of quality of life
- Political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioural and biological factors can all favour/harm health
- Health promotion makes these conditions favourable through advocacy for health
Enable:
- achieving equity in health
- aims at reducing differences in current health status
and ensuring equal opportunities and resources to everyone to reach full health potential
mediate:
- Health promotion demands coordinated action by all concerned»_space; governments, health + other social and economic sectors, non-governmental and voluntary organisations, by industry and by the media
- Major responsibility to mediate between differing interests in society for the pursuit of health
Developing personal skills
- Developing the skills of individuals to support * their own social + personal development and * enhance their health
- e.g. compulsory pdhpe k-10
creating supportive environments
- Making the places people live, work + play e.g. * workplaces, support groups, schools, the sources * of good health
- e.g. Quitline and alcohol free zones
Reorient health services
- Moving away from the ‘clinical and curative’ * services approach to a more ‘preventative’ approach, including stronger attention to * research and professional training
- e.g. first aid training, free mammograms for women aged 50-69
Building healthy public policy
- Ensuring that decisions made at all levels of * government + organisations are made so that * they work towards health improvement
- “no hat no play”
- high tax on tobacco products
strengthening community action
- Giving communities the power to identify their * own health priorities + then take action, in partnership with other agencies, to address them
- world no tobacco day
- free breath testing at pubs + large events
Levels of responsibility Building healthy public policy
Governments:
All levels of government are responsible for the creation and maintenance of policies that aim to improve health.
e.g. the close the gap statement of intent
communities:
Contribute towards the development of health policies and are involved in caring the policies out.
e.g ATSI community involvement in the development and implementation of ‘close the gap’
Individuals:
Act in accord with the policies delivered.
e.g. not smoking in public areas
Levels of responsibility creating supportive environments
governments:
Responsible for the planning, implementation and management of infrastructure.
e.g. location of hospitals, parks, community centres. Council approve developments, remove waste etc
communities:
Help maintain healthy environments and promote healthy behaviours.
e.g. clean up Australia day, fun runs, maintain parks, fields and ovals, YMCA gyms etc
individuals:
Make better health choices using and maintaining the environment.
e.g. putting rubbish in the bins provided.
Levels of responsibility Strengthen community action
Government:
Engage with community groups in the creation of policies.
e.g. allowing communities to provide feedback on policies before signing them
communities:
Contribute to and take ownership of policies being empowered to act and implement them.
e.g. Aboriginal community controlled health services
individuals:
Promote community activities that promote health, be involved in community actions.
e.g. promote fun runs, engage in community discussions around health
Levels of responsibility develop personal skills
Governments:
Develop policies and provide funding towards developing personal skills.
Eg) K-10 PDHPE compulsory, advertisements (2 & 5) etc
communities:
Run education and training programs to develop personal skills in relation to health.
e.g community health centre education (pre-natal classes, brochures etc) school education system, Quit helpline etc
individuals:
Seek to develop their own skills in relation to health. Enabled to take charge of their own health
e.g. research behavioural choices for health, act on advice from GPs and health practitioners, enrol in community programs etc
Levels of responsibility re-orient health services
Government:
Fund, research and create policies around prevention and health promotion. Looking at all the determinants of health and not just curative services.
e.g. tv advertisements, training of primary health sector to promote health as well as cure.
communities:
Conduct research, and be involved in the promotion of health. e.g. cancer council conducts research around cancer, but also promotes better health choices in relation to the prevention of cancer.
individuals:
Seek to make healthy life choices, and help others to do the same, including participation in health promotion.
Eg) participating in jump- rope-for-heart or getting advice from a GP on quitting smoking
How Ottawa charter promotes social justice Supportive environments
- This principle recognises the significant impact that the environment in which a person lives, works, and socialises can have on an individual’s level of health and their ability to make changes to their level of health.
- Health promotion seeks to create environments that are safe, supportive and encourage people to
make positive health choices.
