ANALYSIS OF HEALTHCARE MODELS part 2

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Develop Personal Skills: The Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek, Slide advertising campaign is teaching people strategies to decrease their risk of developing skin cancer.

Reorient Health Services: Working with a variety of groups and individuals across the health sector improves knowledge and skills that people have for reducing UV exposure.

Other programs that incorporate the Ottawa Charter priority / action areas include the “Swap it, Don’t stop it” initiative, the Quit campaign and the Closing the gap campaign.

An acronym to assist remembering the first word of each Ottawa Charter action area is “Bad Cats Smell Dead Ratsâ”.

VicHealth

The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, more commonly referred to as VicHealth was established in 1987 and works in partnership with organisations, communities and individuals to make health a central part of daily living. The focus of VicHealth is primarily on health promotion and prevention of health conditions for Victorians. VicHealth does not implement programs but advocates and financially support health promotion initiatives.

The mission of VicHealth is to build the capabilities of organisations, communities and individuals in ways that:

change social, economic, cultural and physical environments to improve health for all Victorians;

strengthen the understanding and the skills of individuals in ways that support their efforts to achieve and maintain health.

The mission of VicHealth guides the selection of the organisations strategic priorities, which reflect the Tobacco Act 1987 and are founded on principles of equity. The priorities for focus in the VicHealth strategic framework are:

Reducing smoking

Improving nutrition

Reducing harm from alcohol

Increasing physical activity

Increasing social and economic participation

Reducing harm from UV exposure.

VicHealth reflects the social model of health by participating in business activities that draw on the Ottawa Charter. Health promotion actions that VicHealth are involved in are activities that:

Create and use knowledge acquired through research and eval