MD 1010:12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Health Literacy, Support Group, Safe Sex
EH1 –7. Community Health Organisations
Learning Outcome
1. Briefly describe the range of common community health services available in Australia and internationally
a. Australia
b. International
2. Describe how these services fit into the health system
3. Describe how doctors work with these services
4. Determine patient supports available through community health organisations by researching options: GLS
1. What is a Community Health Organisation?
a. Organisation working in any health-related field
b. Range of funding sources (Commonwealth, State, philanthropic grants and donations)
c. ≠ ‘Community Health’: state responsibility (i.e. ‘Kirwan Campus’)
2. Cases
Health
issue
- Mental
Health
- Chronic
Disease
Social and contextual
issues
- Migration
- Defence
- Coming out
- Parenting roles
- Change of relationships
- Family conflict
- Adolescence
Support/strength
- Financial
- Housing
- Employment
- Family
- Relationship
- Support network
- Friends
- Social Capital: connection to
society
- Skills
- Education
- Linked to GP
- Health seeking behaviour
- Health literacy (wanting to
know)
- Aspirations/dreams
- Motivation to change
- Feeling a bit more in control
- Hope
- Got out of bed today for the
first time in 2 weeks
- Initiative to seek help
3. TYPE of Support required
4. TYPE of organisations
- Disease or condition specific organisation for (name of condition)
- Support group for xxx (name of condition)
- Parenting group
- Playground
- Disability services
- Employment services
- Support
- A service help
- Dealing with the issues
- Lots of stuff
- Education
- Money
- Social determinants
- They should just get a job and
stop bludging
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Document Summary
Learning outcome: briefly describe the range of common community health services available in australia and internationally, australia. Got out of bed today for the first time in 2 weeks. Initiative to seek help: type of support required. They should just get a job and stop bludging: type of organisations. Disease or condition specific organisation for (name of condition) Home help for old person/people with disability. Support group (facebook campaign to increase funding for veterans with ptsd) Work in an organisation (fpq, headspace, rfds) Be on the governance or advisory board of an organisation. Work with groups to develop advocacy tools. Service provision (= the action of providing or supplying something for use) Advocacy (=public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy) Provide direct services across the health system and community. Speaking out on behalf of a client on order for them to access services, change services, etc.
