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Essay question
Are the ‘healthy settings’ and a ‘health in all policies’ approaches useful to assist a population sub-group –
that tends to experience poorer health in the Australian context – to achieve an important health goal?
Approaching the task:
Due to a range of factors, several population groups in Australia have poorer health than the general population, namely:
Indigenous Australians
people living in rural and remote areas
people living in socioeconomically
disadvantaged communities
veterans
prisoners
people born overseas (AIHW, 2016).
From among these population groups, select the one of most interest to you and relevance to your
professional work. As integrated health promotion can be highly context specific, it is recommended that
you focus on a sub-population within the broader population group you choose. For example, it may be
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women prisoners in rural Victorian jails, or South Sudanese refugees aged 12-18 years who have recently arrived
in Melbourne, or older Indigenous Australians living in Gippsland.
Then, identify a health goal that would be relevant to your chosen sub-population – for example, for the
selected sub-population to develop more regular participation in physical activity; be non-smokers; increase social connectedness; sustain routine habits that help them to optimally manage a
chronic condition (mental or physical).
In your essay, make sure these points are covered:
a) Brief description of the selected population sub-group and health goal
b) How “integrated health promotion”, “heathy settings” and “health in all policies” are defined and what they mean
c) How and why you would use a “healthy settings” approach as part of an integrated health promotion strategy to help achieve the health goal
d) How and why you would use a “health in all policies” approach as part of an integrated health promotion strategy to help achieve the health goal
e) How “heathy settings” and “health in all policies” approaches work in support of each other in an integrated health promotion strategy