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Your role in Health Promotion
Mitchell Bowden
Health Promotion Program Officer, South Eastern Melbourne Medicare Local
Introducing Health Promotion
http://youtu.be/y9THQTEqMaU
Social Determinants of Health
Geography
Education
Culture/Religion
Background
Income Employment
Social class
Housing
Health Literacy
Gender
Access to service
What is Health Promotion?
What my partner thinks
What the public thinks
What my family thinks
What my friends think
What my colleagues think
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
1. Build Healthy Public Policy2. Create Supportive Environments3. Strengthen Community Action4. Develop Personal Skills5. Reorient Health Services
What Health Promotion really is
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control, and improve their health (WHO)
Health Promotion defined
World Health Organisation. Health Promotion http://www.who.int/topics/health_promotion/en/
Upstream or downstream?
Why Health Promotion?
Health Promotion in your practice
Develop Personal Skills
Reorient Health Services
Examples of Health Promotion in your practice?
Develop Personal Skills
Develop Personal Skills – Health education and empowerment
LiveLighter website
https://livelighter.com.au/
Develop Personal Skills – Health education and empowerment
QUIT website
http://quit.org.au/
Health education and empowerment for all
http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/
Reorient Health Services
Reorient Health Service – from treatment to prevention and promotion
LIFE Program
http://www.lifeprogram.org.au/about-the-life-program
Reorient Health Service – from treatment to prevention and promotion
http://starttheconversation.org.au/
Referring to programs and supports
Chronic disease LIFE programhttp://www.lifeprogram.org.au/for-health-professionals Heart Foundation Walking Groupshttp://www.heartfoundation.org.au/active-living/walking/Pages/welcome.aspx DCAS (SEMML Program)http://www.semml.com.au/programs/diabetes-program
Cancer Screening https://
www.breastscreen.org.au/Professionals/Featured-Clinics/Screening-age-target-to-include-women-aged-50-to-7
Smoking cessation Quitlinehttp://www.quit.org.au/resource-centre/training/professional-training-programs/smoking-cessation-referral
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Closing the Gap (SEMML program)http://www.semml.com.au/programs/aboriginaltorres-strait-islander-health
Mental Health Beyond Blue supporthttp://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/get-immediate-support ATAPS (SEMML Program)http://www.semml.com.au/programs/mental-health Partners in Recovery (SEMML program)http://www.semml.com.au/programs/sempir
Referring to programs and supports
Planning Health Promotion in your practice
Department of Health – calendar of events
http://www.health.gov.au/calendar
Questions??
