Integrated Health Promotion: Live Life Well

This presentation explores the major theoretical frameworks and key issues in integrated health promotion, with a focus on the Live Life Well initiative. It discusses the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, the strengths and weaknesses of the approach, and the theoretical frameworks underpinning its effectiveness. The presentation also addresses key issues in integrated health promotion and analyzes contemporary policy debates on health promotion.

Live Life Well (Integrated
Health Promotion)
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Scope of the Presentation
The intended outcome for the presentation include;
 Description and exploration of major theoretical
frameworks underpinning integrated health promotion
(IHP) with a focus on Live Life Well (LLW) as the chosen
initiative
 Key issues in integrated health- networks, partnerships,
and complex systems among others
 Analysis of contemporary policy debates on health
promotion

Introduction
Integrated health service have different meaning to
different people
A working definition should involve;
 Care the community needs
 Right time
 User friendly ways of service access
 Achievement of desired results
 Getting value for the resources

Definition
What is an integrated health promotion approach?
 Is a process aimed at increasing control over or improving
the health condition of an individual
 Aim: achieving a state of complete mental, physical, and
social wellbeing
Steps: identify aspirations to satisfy health needs (Steck,
2017)
Chosen Health Promotion Initiative: Live Life Well

Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion

Cont.…
Upper wing: breaks the cycle calls for action to strengthen the
changing community hence need for policy to develop to the
changes
Middle wing: shows that action is necessary to creating
supportive environments for health
Bottom Wing: action required to redefine health services
toward health promotion
 The Ottawa Charter defines integrated health
promotion as
 Working in a collaborative manner adopting
various health promotion interventions and
strategies
 Aim: addressing the priority health and wellbeing

Analysis
 Live Life Well (LLW)
 Is an integrated health promotion initiative
 Is a campaign aimed at promoting preventing
actions
 Aim:
 Promoting personal health
 Reducing the chances of chronic health
complications

Strengths and Weaknesses of the
Approach
Strengths
-It is relevant to the current health system challenges
as it adopts integrated basic tools and health
information essential for personal life style; These
involves issues like;
Nutrition
Smoking
Physical activity
Stress management
Weight management etc
-

Cont..
Weaknesses
 The quality of life for Australians face
challenges from health inequality and
increasing aging population (Ismail, 2017).
 There is lack of awareness to the public on
the benefits of the Live Life Well initiative
hence not embraced by many people
 It is expensive in terms of expertise
assistance

Theoretical Frameworks Underpinning
Effectiveness
 Achieving an effective LLW delivery, there are several
aspects that should be considered
 They often affect delivery hence underpinning
effectiveness. These include;
 Planning
 Availability of Resources
 Proper priority identification

Poor Planning
Intensification of
integration needs
proper planning
Planning covers- vision,
problem identification,
generation of solution ,
capacity building, and
evaluation
Poor planning results to
lack of flow in the above
aspects

LLW Health Promotion
- To guide planning for solution
generation
five categories involved include;
- screening relevant risk factor
assessments
- health information
- skill development thru’ health
education
- social and environmental
community action (Boninger,
2016)
- supportive environment

Availability of Resources
Resources are vital for the development in supporting
LLW (Ismail, 2017). These include;
Financial resources:
 Sufficient funding is essential for effectiveness
 Poor dissemination of funding opportunities within the
LLW agencies limits the process

Cont.…
Human Resources
 Involves human power required for different roles aimed
at supporting program development (Boninger, 2019).
 Lack of or poor training leads to poor performance due
lack of relevant LLW skills
 Every organization or agency concerned with integrated
health promotion should have proper staff training

Cont.…
Specialist Advice
 Boninger (2019) denotes that access to quality expertise is
necessary for quality promotion in line to;
Relevant health evaluation and research
Marketing and media
Workforce development
Dissemination
Documentation

Key issues in Integrated Health
Promotion
According to Ottawa Charter, achieving
effective health promotion delivery require;
 Collaboration
 Networking
 Appropriate mix Quality care promotion
 Key stakeholders and partners

Collaboration
Integration intensifies
through collaborative
partnerships
Goal: moving towards high
integration level
The progression and entry
point may vary as per;
 Community background
 Leadership
 Prior development and
capacity building
 Individual roles of the
public

Networking
Is exchanging information for a mutual benefit (Dave,
2019).
It involves exchanging health information and altering
activities to achieve a common goal
Benefits;
 It promotes sharing of information between stakeholders
 Limits service duplication
 Effective coordination of health promotion needs

Appropriate mix Quality care Promotion
Effective LLW delivery and practice need to focus on
implementing proper mix of health promotion
interventions
The mix should encompass;
 A balance of both population-wide and individual health
promotion interventions
 Strategies towards capacity building

Stakeholders and Partners
There is need for clear identification of partners and
stakeholders depending on the priority issue (Archer,
2018)
Key partners in the development of LLW include;
 Community groups and NGOs
 The health care sector (schools, recreational businesses,
etc)
 The legal government

Policy Debates
- Payment incentives are biased towards the provision of
conventional medical care
 Marginalization of alternative therapies, integrative
approaches and preventive strategies
 there is broad agreement among stakeholders that the
status quo is wasteful, dis-functional, and increasingly
intolerable (Atieo, 2017)
 These debates limits the effeteness to quality LLW

Conclusion
Health promotion is necessary for guiding integrated
health promotion planning
 Live Life Well is aimed at generating solutions to solve
health care challenges .
 It also requires one to bring in the participation of policy
makers that unites individuals and the general population.

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