HLTH 323 Lecture Notes - Health Promotion, Sex Worker, Aids Service Organization
30 Apr 2013
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Support/education components: assistance with testing, support with family/friends. Health promotion and harm reduction principles: influences programs, requires evaluation. Harm reduction: needle exchange programs, prevent harm within that population. Giving support to make changes: minimizing hep. Kingston street health: needle exchange program. Population specific projects: focused on women. Work with women who are at risk. Education, policy development: sex worker population. Involving women sex workers in program development. Providing education and tools for sex workers to work safely. Preventing work violence: policies and agencies. Getting agencies involved: gay men work. Providing education about safety with men having sex. Building capacity in the community to be more involved. Programs will not occur without health promotion or harm reduction: hard for rural communitites, hard for communities based on abstinence. Health promotion improved program: finding ways to work together, giving people tools, focus on keeping people healthy, looking at keeping individuals healthy in order to keep everyone else healthy.
