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09 Building a Healthy City

 

 

Health promotion
The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
  • Action Means
    • Build healthy public policy
    • Create supportive environments
    • Strengthen community action
    • Develop personal skills
    • Re-orientate health services
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
  • (termination)
Health promotion in Hong Kong
Health and safety promotion, such as anti-smoking campaigns, personal hygiene campaigns

 

 

Health and Safety
Concepts
  • risk and safety
  • risk assessment
  • health management
Health and safety in different settings Health and safety at work
occupational health
Health and safety at school
  • protection against harassment, e.g. sexual harassment / bullying
  • others: e.g. hygiene, healthy lunch, peer relationship
Health and safety in sports and leisure
  • health and safety practices in sports
  • lifestyle changes and new leisure activities create new risks
Health and safety abroad
  • health risk assessment, vaccinations and medication that travellers may need while travelling abroad
Health and safety at home
e.g. safety aids, use of equipment
‘Healthy city’
Guiding principles - community participation, health promotion, primary health care, equity in health, inter-sectoral collaboration, effective use of resources
Emergency Management
  • Accidents in schools, on the road, at home
  • Ways of reporting or obtaining assistance when faced with unsafe situations or accidents
  • Corrective action e.g. first-aid skills

 

 

Risk

Hazards
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 Related to life events

Latest Update: October 2019

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Assessing my learning

What is health promotion?
What the similarities and differences between health education and health promotion?
How can we maintain health and safety at different settings

Note-taking Tools

One Note
Docs

My Data Bank

One Drive
Google Drive

Collaboration Platform

Google Sites
schoology

Presentation Tools

Google Slides
Sway
Some examples of self-study tools for studying HMSC are listed above. They are not learning materials. Users need to upload relevant content to the relevant learning platforms for self-study purposes.