Health Promotion Program

HEALTH PROMOTION
PROGRAM

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
2. Chosen health promotion initiative..........................................................................................1
3. Characteristics of target population.........................................................................................2
4. Explanation of program in relation to needs of population group...........................................2
5. Three or more social determinants of health that influence health of population group.........3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
6. Influence of SDH upon planning and implementation of health promotion initiative...........3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REREFENCES................................................................................................................................5

1. INTRODUCTION
Health promotion and disease prevention program are kind of programs or strategies
developed for keeping people healthy (Adler, Glymour & Fielding, 2016). There are various
kinds of health promotion programs and projects developed by government of Australia for
enhancing health and wellbeing of people of Australia. There are various kinds of health
promotion program and project from Victorian health that focuses upon different health and
wellbeing aspects of different group of people. Active Women and Girls for Health and
Wellbeing Program focuses upon women’s sports in order to ensure Participation in sport and
physical activity of women should be increased for better health and wellbeing. Women and girl
are main target population that are focused upon in this program
MAIN BODY
2. Chosen health promotion initiative
Health promotion initiative can be defied as a combined effort of government, society,
organizations etc. for bringing improvement within health and well-being of people (Hlth &
MEc, 2020). Health promotion imitative chosen is Active Women and Girls for Health and
Wellbeing Program. It is a health and wellbeing initiative for promotion of women though active
participation in sports and other kinds of physical activities. This health promotion initiative
focuses upon helping women or girls so that they can become active and enhance their overall
health in a positive manner. This health promotion initiative is for Victorian women by focusing
upon making Victorian women and girls healthy and active over the next three years. This can be
done by increasing participation of women in physical activities, sports by encouraging women
and girls to play more sports and games and enhance their health and wellbeing. VicHealth is
taking a huge initiative to boost women’s participation in sports and for this they have
announced $6.7 million funding to get more Victorian women and girls healthy and active
participation in sports and many other different kinds of activities. Achievement this output they
are focusing upon increasing number of playing fields for women, increasing new opportunities
for them especially for girl or women who have never ever played any kind of physical sports.
This initiative has been taken by government because health and wellbeing of women as
compared to men is decreasing and their participation within sports in much lower as compared
to men. This is mainly because of lower confidence level of girls and women, and due to
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