Health Promotion and Health Promotion Strategy DHCS NT

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Health Promotion and Health Promotion Strategy
DHCS NT
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Health Promotion Strategy

• HPSU
• A small team within the Health Development and
  Oral Health Branch, with staff located in Darwin
  and Alice Springs
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• Health Promotion Strategy Unit Staff include
• Manager
• Senior Indigenous Policy Officer
• Policy Officer
• Training and Development Coordinators in the Top
  End and Central Australia
• Administrative Officer
• Project Officers and students
• From the restructure in 2004,health promotion
  specialists are now found in the Preventive
  Chronic Disease and Maternal Child Youth Health
  program areas in locations across the NT

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Health Promotion Strategy NT

• HPSU is responsible for
• 1) supporting good health promotion practice in
  the NT that is
• evidence based and measurable
• integrated into core business
• coordinated to reduce duplication
• 2) to support staff to do their work and support
  the health promotion specialists in the program
  areas  

• The 4 Key program areas are
• Mental Health
• Alcohol and other Drugs
• Preventable Chronic Disease
• Maternal Child Youth Health
• The 4 key Health Issues are Smoking
  cessationAlcoholPhysical Activity Depression
  (mental health and wellbeing)

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health promotion ..?

• - is the process of enabling people to increase
  control over and to improve their health (Ottawa
  Charter 1986)
• - involves the facilitation of skills in
  individuals and change in environments which
  impact positively on health (VicHealth 2005)
•  - is everyones business (CEO DHCS 2004)
• The Ottawa Charter and the Jakarta Declaration
  can be downloaded from the following
  siteswww.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/ottawa_charter_hp.
  pdf
• www.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/jakarta_declaration_en.p
  df

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10 Key Action Areas for Health Promotion (Ottawa
Charter and Jakarta Declaration)

• Build healthy public policy
• Create supportive environments
• Strengthen community action
• Develop personal skills
• Reorient health services towards primary health
  health care
• Promote social responsibility for health
• Increase investment for health development to
  address social inequalities leading to poor
  health
• Consolidate and expand partnerships for health
• Strengthen communities and increase community
  capacity to empower the individual
• Secure an infrastructure for health promotion

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Indigenous health promotion

• The Certificate 4 in AHW training now includes an
  elective module on Health Promotion
• For information about courses on Indigenous
  health go to Healthinfonet
• www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/html/html_ourservices
  /pourservices_courses.htm
• Australian Indigenous Health Promotion network
• www.indigenoushealth.med.usyd.edu.au/education.htm
  

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Planning and evaluation

• Plan from start to finish
• What do I/the community want to address and what
  is the evidence to support this?
• How should I approach the issue based on the
  evidence for best practice?
• How will I know whether I have been effective?
• Public Health Bush Book (written for the NT
  context)
• http//www.nt.gov.au/health/healthdev/health_promo
  tion/bushbook/bushbook_toc.shtml
• HPSU web pages for resources and tools for
  planning and evaluation
• http//www.nt.gov.au/health/healthdev/health_promo
  tion/promotion_main.shtml

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Public Health Bush Book

•          Volume 2
• Alcohol other drugs
• Environmental Health
• Food and nutrition
• To order call [phone] or get it on
  line at http//www.nt.gov.au/health/healthdev/heal
  th_promotion/bushbook/bushbook_toc.shtml

•        Volume 1
• Education for Health
• Sharing Health Information
• Strategies for health promotion
• Planning and evaluating a health promotion
  project
• Towards a healthy health centre
• Glossary
• Evaluation

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Spectrum of health promotion interventions

• NT has adopted the Victorian Government DHS
  categories of health promotion interventions
• Screening, individual risk assessment and
  immunisation
• Social marketing/health information
• Health education and skill development
• Community action
• Settings and supportive environments
• These form the spectrum of health promotion
  interventions
• from the individual to population level
  interventions
• Using smoking cessation as an example and going
  from the individual to the population level,
  health promotion action can range from brief
  interventions and advice to community based
  health promotion and social marketing (media etc)
  to policy and legislation such as smoke free
  areas and access to purchasing

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NT Health Promotion Storybook

• The NT Health Promotion Storybook will provide a
  medium for sharing stories about good practice in
  health promotion in the NT.
• Health promotion practitioners have reported
  that the Storybook increased their awareness of a
  wide range of health promotion projects and put
  practitioners in contact with each other to share
  ideas and build on each others practice.
• Go online and tell us your story details at
• http//www.nt.gov.au/health/healthdev/health_promo
  tion/promotion_main.shtml

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Working in PartnershipsWorking together toward
shared objectives

• Networking
• exchange of information, updates and meetings
• Coordinating
• exchange information and change activities fro a
  common purpose
• Cooperating
• exchange info, change activities and share
  resources. Involves more time and high level of
  trust eg pool resources to run a health week to
  address an issue
• Collaborating
• all of the above, plus build the capacity of the
  other partner for mutual benefit and common
  purpose eg provide funds, staff, facility or
  other resources
• (source VicHealth MH Promotion short course)

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Health Promotion Strategy Unit DHCS NT

• Contact us
• http//www.nt.gov.au/health/healthdev/health_promo
  tion/promotion_main.shtml
• Healthpromotionstrategy_at_nt.gov.au
• [phone]
• [phone] fax
• Box 40596 Casuarina NT 0811
• Darwin NT