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W13 Mind Map - Future of Health Promotion in Canada - Coggle Diagram
W13 Mind Map - Future of Health Promotion
in Canada
1) While health promotion in Canada has evolved over the past 30 years, there is still a lot of work to be done that requires transformative approaches.
1.1) Several health concerns in recent years have highlighted the need for innovation in health promotion.
b) Migrant Crisis (Northern Africa, the Middle East, Europe)
c) Pandemics (Zika virus, COVID-19. Lyme disease, West Nile Virus etc)
a) Climate change
d) Social- and anti-racist advocacy (Black Lives Matter, Murdered and Missing Indigenous women and girls)
2) Health concerns like the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the importance of health promotion measures globally
2.1) There are several factors that COVID-19 has highlighted for improved health promotion strategies in preparation of future concerns/pandemics
b) Acknowledging the role of health literacy and information bias that influences how information is found, understood, and evaluated, and used to manage their health
dc) Empowerment of organizations and communities and creating environments of trust for protective behaviour adoption
a) Improving preventive behaviour change measures based on feedback from community members
d) Learning from crisis to inform health promotion and prepare for future responses
3) There are several approaches that can be used for transformative approaches and visioning health promotion response before, during, and after health emergencies.
3.3) The doughnut of social and planetary boundaries that captures access to 12 social foundations are met without overshooting any of the nine ecological ceilings.
b) education
c) income/work
d) peace and justice
e) political voice
f) social equity
g) gender equality
h) housing
i) networks
j) energy
k) water
l) food
3.1) Embracing complexity to better understand the collective behaviour of social and economic organizations and impact on health.
b) Acknowledging interface of factors such as the distribution of wealth, knowledge and life chances
c) Need for long term policies for well being developed with community collaboration
a) Acknowledging the interconnectedness of health equity and the sustainability challenge
d) Need to address new problems not conceptualized by SDoH such as the impact of the digital transformation on health and wellbeing
3.2) Transformative metrics of wellbeing that people experience in the context of everyday life along with sustainability (natural, economic, human and social capital).
b) Work-life balance
c) Education and skills
d) Social connections
e) Civic engagement and governance
f) Environmental quality
g) Personal security
h) Subjective well-being
i) Income and wealth
j) Jobs and earnings
k) Housing
a) Health status
3.4) Transformative design of ‘supportive environments’ (physical and social) to promote health and wellbeing
b) Co-designing social environments that engage people through active activities that can positively influence behaviours and aspirations in everyday life
c) addresses the commercial determinants of health use of social media in the digital environment
a) Acknowledging the strong interface between mind and body and, between ourselves and the natural and built environments we live in
d) Social empowerment of young people for human and planetary health
e) Developing strategies that include new tools and technology to combines health literacy, digital literacy and civic literacy
5) Health promotion practitioners need to incorporate transformative approaches into public health interventions for further innovation and improvement of health promotion in Canada.
5.1) Strategies for implementing transformative health promotion
e) Policy makers at multiple levels need to develop health promotion strategies targeted and tailored to meet the unique needs of an increasingly diverse populations
d) collaboration with researchers to research in effectiveness of health in all policies and population health intervention research
c) Informing citizens about the political and economic forces that shape the health of a society
b) Continue efforts to undertake comprehensive evaluations of ecological programs and knowledge transfer and exchange activities
f) engaging with issues related to the planet’s environment encouraging more interdisciplinary work
a) Collaboration with other sectors (engineering, environmental science, education, economics, political science, social welfare)
g) Acknowledging Indigenous history, concepts, contexts, and processes, as well as establishing consent with Indigenous communities when undertaking Indigenous health promotion work
4) Decolonizing health promotion requires acknowledgement of colonial influences on our past and current health system and health promotion.
4.1) There are several factors to consider when thinking about existing colonial influences in health promotion.
c) Meaningful collaboration and involvement with Indigenous and minority communities
d) De-centering whiteness and challenging Western mainstream notions of what is considered “quality” research or politics that work toward racial equity
b) Reflecting on how we organize ourselves within institutions (political, economic etc) embedded in colonialism
e) Reflecting on our positionality as settlers and how we can elevate the needs and priorities of communities as allies
a) Acknowledging colonial traditions and perspectives of how we see the world