U3AOS2A Action Areas/Social/Biomed

Build Healthy Public Policy

creating laws, policies and regulations that promote health and protect people from health risks

Creating Supportive Environments

focuses on the broader determinants of health outcomes and aim to promote healthy physical and sociocultural environments for communities

Strengthen Community Action

building connections between individuals and communities and focuses around communities working together to achieve a common goal

Developing Personal Skills

providing people with knowledge, skills and confidence to make healthier choices and manage their own health.

Reorient Health Services

changing health systems so they promote health and wellbeing rather than just diagnosing/treating.

Biomedical Approach

focuses physical and biological aspects of disease and focuses mainly on the use of technology to diagnose, treat and cure disease

Social Model of Health

directs its focus on addressing the physical, social and political environments of health that have an impact on individuals/population groups and focus on prevention rather than cure.

Social Model of Health Examples

Ottowa Charter & Health Promotion — help educate people and implement long term solutions rather than short term

Biomedical Approach Examples

Medicine, Surgery and Medical Technologies

OPH - Mass Immunisation

vaccinations help immune systems become more tolerant to (disease), decreasing the incidence of (disease)

OPH - Public Health Campaigns

were established to raise awareness around (disease), enabling people to prevent it, decreasing prevalence if (disease)

OPH - Clean Drinking Water

allow for clean drinking water, and as Australians are no longer drinking water with harmful pathogens, the incidence of diarrhea decreases

S/D AGTHE & ATSI GTHE

S: both visual representations of 5 food groups and proportions, both have discretionary foods in the bottom left corner

D: one has traditional foods, and one is very culturally relevant whereas the other one is more generic for the Australian population