Action areas

Developing personal skills
Creating supportive environments
Strengthening Community action
Reorienting health services
Building public health policy
Personal and social development occurs through the provision of information for health and the enhancement of life skills
This increases options in the control over your own health e.g planning, problem solving, goal setting etc
These skills lead to:
Develops a greater capacity to respond to changes and adjustments that occur in health.
The ability to seek information
Individual enpowerment
Autonomy
Focuses on the places where people live, work and play.
The ability to make decisions within these settings
Example: Healthy school canteens
Alcohol free zones within the community
Focus is on the empowerment of communities to identify and implement actions to address their health concerns.
Communities need to work together to set health priorities, make decisions, plan strategies and implement them leading to greater ownership and control over health promotion services
Example: Schools, workplaces and local government (NSW government, live life well campaign).
Focuses on the well being of the whole person - promotion health, preventing ill health and supporting well being.
Reorienting-adjusting the direction/focus of a service to create a fresh approach.
Example: Health professionals working with and supporting schools in health promotion initiatives such as jump rope for heart.
Relates to decisions made at all levels of government and by organisations that work towards health improvement.
Goes beyond the health sector - includes legislation, policies, taxes and organisational change in areas such as education, welfare, recreation etc.
Co-ordinated action helps to make healthier choices in our working and living environments
Example: Food packaging labels, legislation on smoking in public places, school policy in relation to sun safety.

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