Health Promotion: Creating Awareness on Depression to Prevent Suicide Rates

This presentation aims to create awareness on depression in order to prevent the increasing suicide rates. It discusses the community needs, social determinants, health promotion principles, and enacting primary health care. The presentation emphasizes the importance of spreading the word through social media platforms, general public education through billboards and mainstream media, and collaboration with stakeholders. Data collection and evaluation methods are also mentioned.

Health Promotion
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What is the goal of your health promotion
project? (What are you aiming to achieve?)
Creating awareness on depression
so as to prevent the increasing
suicide rates in the next 2 years.

Community Needs
 High rate of suicide linked to depression
 36% of people aged 18 and 24 in 2017
 Target population is young adults aged
between 18 and 25

Community Needs
 The emotional and behavioral changes
this population undergoes interferes with
how their thinking
 This population is vulnerable
 Depression interferes with their mental
health, safety and growth

Social Determinants
 Depression is as a result of changes in
previous attitudes and behaviors
 Changes in body balance of hormones and
past traumatic events are leading causes of
depression
 Depression affects self-esteem which may lead
to suicidal thoughts

Social Determinants
 Strategies to lessen impacts of
depression must be employed
 Promote help-seeking and emotional
well-being practices.
 Educational programs and meetings

Health promotion principles
 There must be strategies for this project to be
effective
 Through spreading the word in social media
platforms
 General public education through billboards
and mainstream media
 These principles reflect the health promotion
framework of Ottawa Charter

Health promotion principles
 Stakeholders include the government, target
population, community
 The government will help fund the project
 Target population will share their experiences and
stories
 The community will help in resource mobilization

Enacting Primary Health Care
 The project is based on equity, social justice
and solidarity
 Encourages accessibility of resources
 Encourages seeking necessary assistance
 The project works collaboratively with other
stakeholders
 Encourages mobilization of community efforts

Enacting Primary Health Care
 Creates emphasis on social determinants of
depression
 Actions are guided by primary healthcare principles
 Data collection to determine the effectiveness of
the project
 We will use case studies, interviews, questionnaires
diaries, press releases
 Evaluation helps keep the group focused

References
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 Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)., 2018. retrieved from
https://www.aracy.org.au/
 Lawrence, D., Johnson, S., Hafekost, J., De Haan, K.B., Sawyer, M., Ainley, J. and
Zubrick, S.R., 2015. The mental health of children and adolescents. Report on the
second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing.
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skills training reduces self-reported anxiety and depression among young adults on
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 Mayo Clinic., 2018. Teen depression Retrieved from
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/teen-depression/symptoms-causes/s
yc-20350985

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