Breaking the Stigma: Promoting Mental Health in Society

In this study, it has been observed that the mental health of an individual is influenced by various external factors such as social culture, socio-economic conditions, and stigma. The discrimination based on these factors can lead to anxiety, depression, loneliness, exposure to violence, higher stress and anxiety, and ultimately increase the suicide rate in communities. To address this issue, Beyoundblue provides clinical help and healthcare programs to spread awareness about mental health. The study concludes that accessibility to primary healthcare services is crucial for achieving a better healthy life, reducing the suicide rate of discriminated individuals, and promoting mental well-being.

Beyondblue as a Health
Promotion Program 3 million
Australians are living with
anxiety or depression

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Evaluation of Beyondblue as a Health Promotion Program...................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The Health care promotion is strengthening the individual behaviour in order to live a
healthy life and support from the social, economical, physical environment to develop healthy
environment. The people who are educated about the health issues and its prevention are
involved in utilization of insecticide treated net in home and built latrines in home. This helps in
cleanliness of the society and also better healthy environment (Lewis, 2015). The Beyoundblue
is promoting the health care system and also helping the transsexual, lesbian etc. to improve their
mental health. This essay studies about the issues related to the mental health and health care
promotional programmes.
TASK
Evaluation of Beyondblue as a Health Promotion Program
Health promotional principles: The health care promotion is spreading awareness about
the issues related to the health and how to prevent these health problem. The first health
promotional conference was held in Ottawa, 1986. This conference launched its principles of the
health promotion programme in Ottawa charter. This conference was more focused about
defining the different determinants of health issues and how to resolve them at local, national and
international level. This emphasis on the biomedical approach of dealing health related problems.
The various principles followed in Ottawa charter of the health care programme are as follows:
Build Health Public Policy: The promotional health programme is not only the
responsibility of health care sector. Its boundaries goes beyond to a particular sector. This
includes formulation of new policies in relation to increasing awareness about health issues of
public. This focuses on the policy makers strategies in all different sectors to promote health
environment in the country (Eldredge, and et.al., 2016). The policy motivates to development of
health strategies in non-health sector. This results in involvement of all sectors in generating
good healthy environment. These policies combines with the Legislation, fiscal measures,

taxation. This health programme identifies the obstacles faced by the non-health sector in
accepting health public policies.
Create supportive Environments: The health promotional programme develop a
motivating environment that emphasis on the better healthy of the community and the people of
countyr6y. These focuses on providing guidelines to the local, national and international
communities to take care of societies, protect natural environment. The people preferences are
changing with the time like work and leisure preferences, various food habits impact of the
health of individual. So the external environment should provide awareness about the various
products and practices to bring health environment in the organisation.
Strengthen Community Actions: This focuses on the building a strong community action
that enhance the effects of the promotional programme in health sector and societies. The
promotional programmes focusses on the empowerment of the communities to make their own
decisions and stand independently in the society to make important decision and strategies
related to the health problems to resolve these issues effectively (Bauman and Nutbeam, 2013).
This helps in implementation of the healthy habits in the members of the different communities.
The communities are able to reduce their waste, natural resources available in the society.
Develop Personal Skills: These focuses on developing human nature, behaviour
according to the need of the healthy environment establishment in the country. This involves
development of personal behaviour and skills in relation to managing own good health by
practising different ways to mange health effectively. This includes education of health and
developing various healthy habits in daily routine. Theses habits helps in resolving future health
problems like chronic disease, injuries, mental health issues.
Reorient Health Services: It involves the reorientation of the roles of various sectors in
developing health related strategies in all sectors. This involves integration of different sectors
with the health sector in order to achieve better healthy environment (3 million Australians are
living with anxiety or depression. 2016). The promotional scheme reorient the healthy services
and engaged in developing various promotional plans top spread awareness and providing
clinical suggestions to the issues related to health and better life. The health services are not only
constrained to the physical health it involves emotional, mental and spiritual health of individual
as well to live stress free life and motivates healthy environment in the country.

Moving into the future: With helps oh the promotional health programme individual can
[plan for better healthy future and ideas free life. This involve various plans developed by the
promotional activities to enhance the awareness and methods to resolve problems related to the
health that may occur in future. This involves moving to the future with overall development of
all sectors and communities in order to bring healthy changes in the personal behaviour and
routine life moving to healthy future.
The primary health care principles: According the WHO declaration Alma-Ata the
primary health care is the basic and core policies of the organisation. This defines basic principal
to enhance the health of individual and communities. This involves promotion of health
programme and development of var8ious strategies to enhance healthy habits in individual;
practices. In developing and developed countries the government and different private health
care organisation are focusses ion providing basic and primary health care services to reduce the
cost incurred in future chronic illness and providing a better healthy future to society (Korda and
Itani, 2013). The various principles of the primary health care that defines the different methods
to basic health issues of the society are as follows:
Accessibility: The accessibility defines the services that can be easily utilised by the
individual in need. The primary health care services should be easily accessible by the person in
need. These services should be available to all the citizens of the country irrespective of their
caste, religion, age sex. The person should not be discriminated on the basis of their gender or
age in utilisation of the basic and primary health care services. The government provides equal
chances to utilise these basic facilities related to needs of family, community and irrespective of
their capabilities to pay.
Appropriate technology: The principles related to basic health care services should make
use of new technological advancement according to the needs of person in the society (Garcia-
Dominic, and et.al., 2010). The technological implementation should be affordable, feasible and
acceptable in the community.
Increased emphasis on Health Promotion: According to the Ottwa charter the health of
the person is related to shelter, education, food, income, resources, social justice etc. The
increased emphasis on the promotional activities helps in development of better socio-economic
conditions to bring healthy habits in daily routine life.

Inter sectorial collaboration: The basic health care services are not only related to the
health care bodies. This involves collaboration of the government, international health care
agencies and other private businesses to implement health related policies and enhance the
healthy life of individual.
Public participation: This helps in recognising the health issues at root level and resolve
the problems related to the health of individual with participation of local communities, public
to bring healthy life in society.
The Beyoundblue is continuously engaged ion development of various promotional activities in
order to spread awareness about the discrimination, its ill effects on mental health and the ideas
to resolve the problems. The Beyoundblue is involved in addressing various types of mental
health issues in the countries. This is working of the people who are seeking for help and victims
of the violence and abuse in the society. This is involved in resolving health issues like anxiety,
depression, stress of victims like lesbian, gay, stigma mark, bisexual, transsexual, People There
strategies are helpful in resolving local and regional socio-economical discrimination of pole at
grass root level and helps in providing better health to individual (Secginli and Nahcivan, 2011).
This works for the national priorities as well as to decreases the suicide rate of the indigenous
and stigma mark of the society and community. The Beyondblue activities implement on the
basis of promotional principles defined in Ottawa charter. These are involved in various types of
activities to promote the community empowerment and personal skills in order to resolve health
issues like depression and anxiety of the victim of violence and discrimination in society.
The inequality in health of the indigenous and non-indigenous people of society are the
major issue in Australia. The Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander Citizens are facing
discrimination in the society. Due to determination the people are highly demotivated, more level
of anxiety and increased depression level that affects the mental health of the individual. The
Beyoundblue is engaged in various health care promotional activities to help the indigenous and
stigma people of the country. The Australia is facing large no. of mental health issue to their
history development and development of indigenous people in the community. Along with the
government bodies, local communities the Beyoundblue is engaged in providing support to
these discriminated group of people of the society for their future better health.
The mental health of the individual is affected by the various aspects of external
environment. The mental health is influenced by the social culture. The society discriminate the

people according t the stigma mark i.e. the people are rejected by the society on the basis of their
behaviour and nature. This results in anxiety and depression of the person (Neiger, and et.al.,
2012). The socio-economic conditions like opportunity restricted for a particular group,
restriction in educational opportunity etc. leads to mental issues of health in person. The
beyoudblue is continuously working for these stigma people in order to provide them healthy
environment. The discrimination of stigma mark people on the basis of socio-economic
condition results in loneliness, exposure to violence, higher stress and anxiety and depression.
This increases the suicide rate in communities in the country (Byrne and et.al., 2011). To prevent
this Beyoundblue is providing clinical help to people and carrying out various health care
program in order to deal with this problem by spreading awareness in societies.
CONCLUSION
This can be concluded from this study that the accessibility to the primary services of the
health care services is very important in order to achieve a better healthy life of individual. This
helps in reducing suicide rate of discriminated, indigenous citizens and stigma marks of the
society. The Beyoundblue is continuously providing clinical helps of these victimised people of
the society.

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<https://www.beyondblue.org.au/>. (Accessed on 26th May 2017).