Your role in Health Promotion Mitchell Bowden Health Promotion Program Officer, South Eastern Melbourne Medicare Local
Introducing Health Promotion
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 Policy 2. Create Supportive Environments 3. Strengthen Community Action 4. Develop Personal Skills 5. 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
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
Develop Personal Skills – Health education and empowerment QUIT website
Health education and empowerment for all
Reorient Health Services
Reorient Health Service – from treatment to prevention and promotion LIFE Program
Reorient Health Service – from treatment to prevention and promotion
Referring to programs and supports Chronic disease LIFE program Heart Foundation Walking Groups living/walking/Pages/welcome.aspx DCAS (SEMML Program) Cancer Screening Clinics/Screening-age-target-to-include-women-aged-50-to-7 Clinics/Screening-age-target-to-include-women-aged-50-to-7 Smoking cessation Quitline programs/smoking-cessation-referral
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Closing the Gap (SEMML program) strait-islander-health Mental Health Beyond Blue support immediate-support ATAPS (SEMML Program) Partners in Recovery (SEMML program) Referring to programs and supports
Planning Health Promotion in your practice Department of Health – calendar of events
Mitchell Bowden
Questions??