CHAPTER 3
Strategies for Health Promotion

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About this chapter

What is 'health'

Health promotion

The five action areas for health promotion

Build healthy public policy

Create supportive environments

Strengthen community action

Develop personal skills

Reorient health services

The Jakarta Declaration on Health Promotion into the 21st Century

The health promoting way of working

Health promotion strategies overview

Things to think about when choosing strategies

Contact list: Health Promotion Units

Working with individuals

Using individual approaches

Models of individual health behaviour change

Brief interventions

Brief intervention: a definition

Features of brief interventions

Why do brief interventions

Who can do brief interventions

When to do brief interventions

How to do brief interventions

Training and support

The Stages of Behaviour Change

Four Step Guide to doing brief interventions

How to do brief interventions with precontemplators

How to do brief interventions with contemplators

How to do brief interventions with people preparing for and taking action

How to do brief interventions to maintain the change

How to support people who have lapsed or relapsed

Motivational interviewing as a brief intervention

Guide to motivational interviewing

Stories about interventions

Working with groups

Working with groups in health promotion

Advantages of working in groups on projects

Characteristics of an effective group

Guide for conducting education sessions with small groups

Strategies for working with family groups

Family health

Reasons for working closely with family groups

Working with communities

What is a 'community'

What is 'community development'

The community development process

Community participation

Working together: partnerships

The context of community development in communities

Working with other organisations and THS programs

Principles and guidelines for THS staff working in communities

Changing the wider environment

Modifications to the environment

Policy and Legislation

Technical interventions

Organisational interventions

The use of incentives and disincentives

Social advocacy and lobbying

Using media

Limited reach media

Making health education and health promotion resources

Evaluating health education and health promotion resources

Aboriginal Health Education Resources Database

Mass media

Using screening

What is screening?

Types of screening

Using screening as a health promotion strategy

Why screen

Criteria for screening

Community health surveys

Screening in the Northern Territory

Consent

Screening resources 3-81

Bibliography

General

Working with Individuals

Working with Groups and Communities

Using Media

Using Screening

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