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Highlights
Action Means | Build healthy public policy |
Create supportive environments | |
Strengthen community action | |
Develop personal skills | |
Re-orientate health services |
2. Health promotion models
Health Belief Model | individual perceptions – perceived severity; perceived susceptibility |
modifying factors – cues to action; demographic, socio-psychological and structural factors | |
likelihood of action – perceived benefits; perceived barriers | |
Stages of Change Model | pre-contemplation |
contemplation | |
preparation/determination | |
action | |
maintenance |
3. Health and safety in different settings
Workplace | occupational health |
School | protection against harassment, e.g. sexual harassment / bullying others: e.g. hygiene, healthy lunch, peer relationship |
Sports and leisure | health and safety practices in sports lifestyle changes and new leisure activities create new risks |
Travel abroad | health risk assessment, vaccinations and medication that travellers may need while travelling abroad |
Home | e.g. safety use of equipment or aids for safety |
Healthy city | Guiding principles – community participation, health promotion, primary health care, equity in health, inter-sectoral collaboration, effective use of resources |
4. Emergency Management
Risk | Hazard | Source |
Injuries | Mechanical | contact with moving parts of machinery or equipment |
Physical | obstacles on the ground (wet or damaged flooring), poor visibility | |
Poisoning | Chemical | hazardous chemical substances |
Electrical | contact with live parts at even normal mains voltage | |
Physical illness | Biological | environmental conditions allow the rapid growths of micro-organisms |
Lifestyle | risk behaviours such as smoking, alcohol addiction, drug abuse, unprotected sex, unhygienic practices | |
Mental illness | Stress | work or life events |