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Close the gap - Coggle Diagram
Close the gap
Reorienting health services
Seek to make healthy life choices, and help others to do the same, including participation in health promotion.
E.g. participating in jump-rope-for-heart or getting advice from a GP on quitting smoking
Closing the gap - Healthy for life program, increase access to early dectection and management of chronic diseases
Equity
The remote area health corps RAHC is designed at increasing the number of health professionals including GPs, dentists and registered nurses to work in remote i n areas in the northern territory.
Diversity
The western NSW aboriginal driver licensing program is an initiative supported transport for NSW which is funded to ABSTI people. This initiative gives them a chance to overcome language barriers, learn skills, obtain their learner license, provides them with road supervision to gain provisional license
Supportive environment
Transport for NSW reorients funding to transport access program TAP. TAP aims to enhance public transport/infrastructure, reducing the number of vehicle on the road thus fewer accidents
Developing Personal Skills
•Seek to develop their own skills in relation to health. Enabled to take charge of their own health. Individuals are empowered with greater health literacy skills to make better health choices.
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E.g. research behavioral choices for health, act on advice from GP's and health practitioners, enroll in community programs etc
examples from closing the gap
The road my mob and me - road safety program for preschool children
SWAB the MOB program - coronavirus public health hygiene messages and vaccination information in indigenous language
Equity
All children have opportunity to attend school
PE=mandatory for K-10
RESULT = when all young people leave school, they have had to explicit opportunities to develop broad range of health knowledge/skills
Diversity
All aussies have the right to access health care through Medicare
Community-based programs that support indigenous to process Medicare and provide docs in different languages to help access health service despite language barrier
Supportive environment
Media campaigns on specifc health conditions raise awareness of preventative approaches to help people to identify signs/symptoms
Building healthy public policy:
-Close the gap- Policy and funding to all levels of government to facilitate the partnerships with ATSI communities in in closing the gap initiatives
-Close the gap- 6th community pharmacy agreement- increases access to pharmaceutical benefits scheme medications
-Increasing the knowledge, understanding and skills of individuals to take greater control over their health
-Individuals are empowered with greater health literacy skills to make better health choices
Equity
bulk billing medicare reduce barrier
diversity
road safety buy improving infrastrucutre in rural areas to decrease deaths from road accidents
supportive environments
road safetyy education programs for young males
Creating supportive environments
Allowing individuals to easily make positive health choices based on the social or physical environment they are in
Supportive environments can be created through structures, resources in the media and in workplaces, schools and families
Close the gap- 1 million meals providing wholesome meals to ATSI communities with food insecurity
-making health services more culturally appropriate and pathways for ATSI to work in
Diversity
aboriginal outline phone service provides a free confidential telephone service with customized and specifically designed assistance to help Aboriginal and Torres strait islander people quit smoking. This service encompasses a culturally sensitive approach which aids in Aboriginal and Torres strait islander people in designing a quit plan, managing cravings and accessing information
Equity
pharmaceutical benefits scheme combined with bulk billing and advocacy of NRT from GPs. provides a supportive environment to smokers and smokers of SES backgrounds. .
Supportive environment
legislation banning smoking in public decrease smoking rates - passive smoking, closing the gap between health risks
strengthening community action
empowering communities to be involved in making decisions and implementing actions inrelation to the healths needs of the community
closing the gap - L2P learner driver mentor program - members of the community mentor young ATSI to gain license and decrease road accidents/injuries
E.g. promote fun runs, engage in community discussions around health
Equity
Volunteers setting up Driver reviver stations offer free coffee for drivers to stop and rest. This targets fatigue on roads while the initiatives also seeks to provide more revive stations in rural and remote areas due to higher fatigue related crash prevalence
Diversity
On the road program assist ABTSI people in the north coast of NSW to obtain a drivers license, supports ABSTI as their cultural and language diversity can make it difficult for them to understand length license agreements
Supportive environment
Lobbying councils, police and other orgs can lead to health enhancing changes eg lighting improved facilities, increased police patrols.