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Your role in Health Promotion Mitchell Bowden Health Promotion Program Officer, South Eastern Melbourne Medicare Local
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Introducing Health Promotion http://youtu.be/y9THQTEqMaU http://youtu.be/y9THQTEqMaU
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Social Determinants of Health Geography Education Culture/Religion Background Income Employment Social class Housing Health Literacy Gender Access to service
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What is Health Promotion? What my partner thinks What the public thinks What my family thinks What my friends think What my colleagues think
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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
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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/http://www.who.int/topics/health_promotion/en/
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Upstream or downstream? Why Health Promotion?
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Health Promotion in your practice Develop Personal Skills Reorient Health Services
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Examples of Health Promotion in your practice?
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Develop Personal Skills
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Develop Personal Skills – Health education and empowerment LiveLighter website https://livelighter.com.au/
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Develop Personal Skills – Health education and empowerment QUIT website http://quit.org.au/
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Health education and empowerment for all http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/
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Reorient Health Services
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Reorient Health Service – from treatment to prevention and promotion LIFE Program http://www.lifeprogram.org.au/about-the-life-program
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Reorient Health Service – from treatment to prevention and promotion http://starttheconversation.org.au/
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Referring to programs and supports Chronic disease LIFE program http://www.lifeprogram.org.au/for-health-professionals Heart Foundation Walking Groups http://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 https://www.breastscreen.org.au/Professionals/Featured- Clinics/Screening-age-target-to-include-women-aged-50-to-7 Smoking cessation Quitline http://www.quit.org.au/resource-centre/training/professional-training- programs/smoking-cessation-referral
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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 support http://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
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Planning Health Promotion in your practice Department of Health – calendar of events http://www.health.gov.au/calendar
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Mitchell Bowden m.bowden@semml.com.au m.bowden@semml.com.au
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