Health Promotion Poster

THE NECESSITY AND IMPORTANCE OF

HEALTH PROMOTION

BUILD HEALTH PUBLIC POLICY

• Promote and Increase mental health services
• Establish Anti-Discrimination laws to minimize mental health disorder occurence (WHO, 1998)

CREATE SUPPOTIVE ENVIRONMENTS

• Provide Mental Health Support groups (Black Dog Institute, n.d)
• Mental Health Promotional Activites in Schools

STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY ACTIONS

• Establish Mental Health Awareness Campaigns

DEVELOP PERSONAL SKILLS

• Provide mental health related courses available and accessible to anyone
• Develop healthy coping mechanisms with suitable self-care

REORIENT HEALTH SERVICES

• Provide helpline for people to contact
• Provide Psychology Screenings for mental health disorder diagnosis

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"The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health" (World Health Organization [WHO], 1998)

WHAT IS HEALTH PROMOTION?

FRAMEWORKS AND ACTION AREAS

Mental Health

"A state of well-being in which an individual realizes their own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of their lives, can work productively, and is able to make a contribution to their community" (WHO, 2018)

OTTAWA CHARTER ACTION AREAS

792 million

people had been diagnosed with a mental health disorder by 2017. The most prevalent cases include anxiety and depression disorders (Richie, H. & Roser, M., 2018).

75%

health promotion aims to:

Mediate

Communicating, cooperating, and collaborating between the government, health services and the community in order to achieve the best resultrs possible when helping one another

Enable

Allowing people to be informed of the health disorder and have access to the appropriate health services regardless of their socio-economic status

Advocate

Supporting those who suffer from illnesses and spreading awareness to everyone else for better understanding of health

50%

of the total Australian population had experienced a mental health disorder in their lifetime (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, [AIHW], 2020)

Australians received mental health disorder-related prescription medicine in 2017 (AIHW, 2017)

4.3 million

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downstream

Biological Factors - Micro Levels

• Visiting a mental health specialist, e.g. Therapist, Psychologist
• Taking prescriptions for mental health disorder

Midstream

Behavioural Factors - Intermediate Levels

• Exercising and keeping physically healthy
• Healthy and close relationships
• Learning healthy coping mechanisms with stress

upstream

Social Factors - Macro Levels

• Create anti-discrimination policies
• Create mental health support groups
• Easy access to medical and social mental health support

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