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| The VIctorian Health Promotion Foundation was established in 1987 under the Tobacco Act. It is a statutory authority, that is, it is independent from the health board but still reports to the government. |
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+ Health is a fundamental human right
+ It is everyones responsibility to promote health
+ All benefit from better health outcomes. |
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+ To create social, economic, cultural and physical environments that promote health
+ To strengthen the skills of Victorians in managing their own health |
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| 3 WHO Determinants of Health |
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+ Improve daily living conditions
+ Tackle inequitable distribution of power, money and resources
+ Measure and understand the problem and assess impact |
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| 5 Spectrums of health interventions |
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| Promotion, Prevention, Early treatment, Treatment, Rehabilitation |
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| VicHealths 6 Priority Areas |
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+ Reducing smoking
+ Improving nutrition
+ Reducing harm from alcohol
+ Increasing physical activity
+ Increasing social & economic participation
+ Reducing UV exposure |
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| Professionals who specialise in understanding the relationships between environmental, behavioural and psychological factors in physical health and illness. Practice through health promotion and clinical health. |
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| 4 Goals of Health psychology |
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+ Promote and maintain health
+ Prevent and treat illness
+ Determine behavioural and psychological correlates of illness
+ Improve the health care system and health policy |
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| Australia's 7 National Health Priorities |
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| CVD, cancer (greatest burden of disease), mental health, injury, asthma, diabetes & musculoskeletal disease. |
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| 3 Phases of health promotion |
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1. Development
2. Implementation
3. Evaluation |
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| Discovered lifestyle change and self help therapies had a large impact on MS outcomes. |
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| Environment, evidence, enabling, encouragement, example & evaluate. |
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| Labonte's 3 approaches to HP |
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| Medical, behavioural and socio-economical. |
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| Program achieves its objective in a research setting |
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| Program achieves its objectives in a field setting. $50,000 per DALY averted is considered reasonable. |
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| "Who wins? Who loses? Who pays? Who chooses?" |
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