HPE162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Designated Driver, Mind Map, Road Rage
HPE162-Lecture 4
Review Question
• Explain why early life is a social determinant.
• Explain how the stolen generation has impacted on the health of Indigenous
Australians
• Compare and contrast Nordic and Australian approaches to the early years
development, child protection and parental support.
• Which approach is more effective and why?
Risk Behaviours
Motor vehicles
Protective health behaviours
• Physical activity
• Balanced diet
• Moderate alcohol use/ non use
• Not smoking
• None or limited use of other drugs
• Safer sex
• Resilience
• Safer driving
Four things we know about health behaviours
(Spark, Edgar & Donovan, 2004)
• Health protective behaviours are strongly related to each other.
• Health protective behaviours are not controlled by a single set of response
tendencies or .
Interpersonal Factors in Health Behaviours (Spark et al., 2004)
• Whether your friends and family perform the behaviour.
• Whether you have other other and encouragement to perform the behaviour.
So health behaviours:
• Are influenced by an interaction of the social determinants and:
• Knowledge
• Beliefs and attitudes
• Values
• Peer group norms
Cultural and Social norms
• Experiences
• The media; social media
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Knowledge and the concept of Individual Risk as a deterrent to risky behaviours
The level of risk of injury or disease is a key factor influencing the individuals
response when faced with a health related decision
However a risk factor does not explain why the disease developed or why some
people exposed to the risk factor do not become ill – it ot happe to e
Eg. Smoking and cancer
Major issues (WHO, 2006)
The presence of risk in itself will not motivate health enhancing behaviour -
if it did, non of us would undertake risky health behaviours
Road - World wide how big a problem
WHO (2004) 1mill deaths, 20+mill serious injuries
Now about 9th
/10th on global public health issues but will rise to 3rd by 2020
(Johnson, 2010)
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Why is it an issue in Australia?
Road crashes cost the Australian community $40 million every day or $15 billion
every year, which is:
• Euialet to Austalias defee udget
• Thee ties Austalias highe eduatio udget
• % of Austalias Goss Doesti Podut
• Each fatal road crash costs the community more than $1.7 million (Johnson, 2010).
• The human cost in pain, suffering and personal loss from road crashes is incalculable
The good news
Road related deaths are decreasing
(Dept of Infrastructure and transport, 2011)
By State till 2010
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Document Summary
Review question: explain why early life is a social determinant, explain how the stolen generation has impacted on the health of indigenous. Protective health behaviours: physical activity, balanced diet, moderate alcohol use/ non use, not smoking, none or limited use of other drugs, safer sex, resilience, safer driving. Four things we know about health behaviours (spark, edgar & donovan, 2004: health protective behaviours are strongly related to each other, health protective behaviours are not controlled by a single set of response tendencies or . Interpersonal factors in health behaviours (spark et al. , 2004: whether your friends and family perform the behaviour, whether you have other other and encouragement to perform the behaviour. So health behaviours: are influenced by an interaction of the social determinants and, knowledge, beliefs and attitudes, values, peer group norms. Cultural and social norms: experiences, the media; social media. Knowledge and the concept of individual risk as a deterrent to risky behaviours.
