Health care

Choose one of these articles or videos that looks interesting to you and one you would like to focus on in depth. Now, reflect on the video or reading: What did you find interesting? write a summary of what was covered, but rather what you got out of it. - What issues did it raise? - What do you agree with, or not agree with? - How do they affect you and your work? Why? Empowering people to be healthier: Public health nutrition through the Ottawa Charter (Flynn, 2015) The WHO’s Ottawa Charter highlights five priority areas for taking action in public health. Only one of them is at the individual level as action at more upstream intervention levels, such as community or policy levels, is critical for enabling individuals to succeed. The objective of the present paper is to give insight into the many complex processes involved in public health nutrition by describing the Ottawa Charter’s five priority areas for taking action using public health nutrition initiatives I have been involved in. Evidence-based guide- lines for healthy eating and infant feeding provide an essential basis for individuals to ‘develop personal skills’ (Action Area 1). ‘Re-orienting health services’ (Action Area 2) can address the needs of vulnerable population subgroups, such as the culturally sensitive diabetes prevention programme established for an Indo-Asian community in Canada. Identifying geographic areas at high risk of childhood obesity enables better strategic planning and targeting of resources to ‘strengthen community action’ (Action Area 3). Calorie menu labelling can ‘create supportive environments’ (Action Area 4) through encouraging a demand for less energy-dense, healthier food options. ‘Building healthy public policy’ (Action Area 5) to implement mandatory folic acid food fortification for prevention of birth defects has many advantages over a voluntary approach. In conclusion, evaluation and evidence-based decision-making needs to take account of different strategies used to take action in each of these priority areas. Building of the global movement for health equity: from Santiago to Rio and beyond (Marmot, Allen, Bell & Goldblatt, 2012) Health inequalities are present throughout the world, both within and between countries. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health drew attention to dramatic social gradients in health within most countries and made proposals for action. These inequalities are not inevitable. The purpose of this article is to report on activity that has taken place worldwide after the report by the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. First, we summarise the global situation. Second, we summarise an interim report of the emerging findings from an independent review of social determinants and the health divide, which was commissioned by the WHO European region. The world conference on social determinants of health will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October, 2011. This summit provides an opportunity to galvanise support, prioritise action, and respond to the call by the Commission on Social Determinants of Health for social justice as a route to a fair distribution of health. Building belonging and connection for children with disability and their families: A co-designed research and community development project in a regional community (Robinson & Notara, 2015) Belonging and connection of children with disability and their families are contested and fragile in many regional communities. This article reports on a project that aimed to better understand and strengthen belonging and connection for young children with disability and their families within a regional Australian community. The project involved a series of community capacity building initiatives which were grounded in participatory research about facilitators and barriers to belonging and connection. It used co-design principles to involve children and their families in the research design and collection of information, and in the direction of project resources post-research. This article describes the research, reviews the effectiveness of the methods used to facilitate involvement of children with disability and family members at a range of points in the project, and discusses the innovative way the project extends participatory methods used in research into project management and community development with a group not often included in either participatory research or community development. The journey from Ottawa to Health 2020 This clip, The journey from Ottawa to Health 2020, discusses the influence that the Ottawa Charter has had on how we think about health and wellbeing in a globalised world. In particular, it examines how the Ottawa Charter and subsequent health promotion conferences underpinned the new common European Health Policy: Health 2020. Billboard Bandits (Video) This clip, Billboard bandits, is about the establishment of BUGA UP, a good example of community action. The activists involved in the BUGA UP campaign directly talk about how their actions were a form of health promotion and how their lobbying had an impact on changing tobacco legislation in Australia. HIV – how to fight an epidemic of bad laws (Video) This TED talk, HIV – how to fight an epidemic of bad laws, looks at how legislation in a number of countries influences the experience of people living with HIV and those most at risk. Shereen El-Feki argues that these laws, which are based in stigma, do not help curb the spread of HIV, but rather assist its spread.