Health and Human SAC 4

Enables people to take responsibility and have control over their own health.

**OTTAWA HEALTH CHARTER**

• - adequate funding
• - affordable for participants
• - culturally appropriate
• - local people have a say
• - empower people
• - allow for feedback
• - geographically accessible
• - reaching those most in need
• - involve partnerships

• - single most preventable cause of ill-health and death in Australia
• - very strong addiction
• - responsible for 9% if the total burden of disease and injury
• - high impact on healthcare system

• QUIT (quitline, quitcoach, myquitbuddy app, quit media campaigns)
• - aims to encourage support and promote people
• - funded by CancerCouncil, theHeartFoundation, VicHealth, and the Department of Health

• Build healthy public policies - ban tobacco advertising, ban smoking in public places, increased taxation on tobacco products
• Create supportive environments - supportive social environment
• Strengthen community action - works with range of groups such as state gov. to change legislation, and Vichealth to develop strong health-promotion initiatives 
• Develop personal skills - myQuitbuddy app, Quit website provides advice
• Reorient Health services - provides range of face to face learning services for health professionals to support their patients

• Aboriginal Road to good health
• - aims to prevent diabetes and improve the health and wellbeing of Indigenous families and communities 
• - free service run by Aboriginal health workers 
• - provides nutrition information
• Learn Earn Legend!
• - aims to empower, encourage and support Indigenous Australian teenagers to stay at school and get a job to support themselves and their families/communities. 
• - utilises role model and mentoring (academic, career, and emotional support)

• Develop Personal skills - 
• Create Supportive environments - 

• Strengthen Community action - works with Victorian Aboriginal Health Service 6 week challenge to prevent diabetes
• Develop Personal skills - taught how different goods affect their health, etc. 
• Create supportive environments - providing support, running a group session, able to create supportive social environments 
• Reorient health services - provides support to health professionals to prevent diabetes (and heart disease)

• Guideline One:
• To achieve and maintain a healthy weight, to be physically active and choose amounts of nutritious food and drinks to meet energy needs
• Guideline Two: (Australian guide to healthy eating)
• Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods from these 5 groups everyday
• - vegetables
• - fruits
• - grains
• - lean meats
• - dairy
• Guideline Three:
• Limit intake of foods containing saturated fat, added sugar, and added salts and alcohol
• Guideline Four:
• Encourage, promote and support breastfeeding
• Guideline Five:
• Care for your food, prepare and store it safely

The Australian guide to healthy eating is a pie-shaped food selection guide which visually represents the proportion of the five food groups recommended for consumption each day.

Provides scientifically-based nutrition information to encourage all Australians to achieve optimal health and wellbeing through food variety and physical activity

• promotes health and wellbeing of australians
• NGO, non-profit and community based

• - the healthy eating pyramid
• - menu assessments
• - numerous programs
• - latest info on nutrition research and current food and health trends

iconic guide to a healthy diet, simple conceptual model representing basic foods, categorises food and provides portion sizing

advantages	disadvantages
visual model	serving sizes for composite foods are not included
shows variety of foods	no mention of saturated fat or alcohol
shows people should limit intake of salt and added sugar	vegetables and fruits are on same level but should be consumed in different amounts

• Similarities:
• representing 5 food groups in correct proportions
• both visual representations
• encourages consumption of water

• Differences:
• one is pie chart, one is 4 layer pyramid

• personal taste preferences
• food availability
• income
• food security
• education
• family and peers

• - affordability of interventions
• - targeting change in children's dietary intake
• - helping the unmotivated

mortality, morbidity, prevalance, incidence, life expectancy

physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social

do we need to know a smoking initiative other than QUIT?