The health promotion program

Running head: HEALTH PROGRAM EVALUATION
Health Program Evaluation
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Introduction
Health promotion programs aims to engage and empower the individuals and the
communities in order to follow health lifestyle habits and make significant chances in the
health behaviours in order to reduce the risk of developing both communicable and non-
communicable diseases (Australian Government 2019). The following paper is based on the
evaluation of the data collection instrument that will be used for evaluating the success of the
health promotion program. The health promotion program is based on the case study of
Young Women’s Leadership Program (YWLP) conducted in the city of Monash. The YWLP
was delivered through community-based training in order to strengthen the leadership skills
of the women while increasing the awareness towards gender inequalities and promoting
respectful relationships. Nearly 50% of the participants will be refugee women and migrants.
The overall duration of the program will be 10 weeks. The main topics that will be covered in
the program include health, confidence, leadership and business and public speaking. The
main research question that will be evaluated in this program include whether community
based training programs help in improving the level of health awareness and health
empowerment among the refugees and immigrants women in Australia.
Literature Review
The reports published by the World Health Organisations (WHO) (2018), stated that
there is a significant difference in the healthcare access and health status of the refuges or
migrants and the asylum seekers. Significant portions of the asylum seekers or migrants or
refugee residing in Australia are the victims of the significant health inequalities. For the
sustainable development goals, these health inequalities must be bridged (World Health
Organization 2018). The Australian Government Department of Health have stated that there
is a over-whelming support of evidences showing that the migrants and the indigenous

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women population in Australia have poor knowledge about health along with lack of proper
health empowerment. The lack of support coming from the partner, social exclusion, lack of
health literacy and increase in the level of domestic violence increases the health-inequalities
among the refuge and migrants women of Australia (Australian Government Department of
Health 2011). In order to reduce these health-inequalities, a comprehensive community based
health promotion programs must be designed. This health promotion programs must be
directed towards poor social determinants of health leading to the generation of poor health
empowerment (Chuah et al. 2018).
The review of the health promotion programs targeted towards the suicide prevention
among the migrants and the refuges stated that the majority of the health promotion programs
for suicide prevention are directed towards whole community based interventions that are
delivered via workshops, various cultural activities or through creative outlets. The
curriculum also includes the knowledge about the factors that increases the vulnerabilities of
the suicide, protective factors along with other signs of warnings or symptoms of the mental
health complications. However, the review highlighted that the community-based
interventions for improvement of the health literacy and empowerment are poorly
documented and the evaluation of the programs failed to incorporate the suicidal outcomes.
The majority of the study considered the process variables and the results extracted from the
available outcome evaluation highlighted that employing a community based approach and
also focusing on the belongings, connectedness and cultural heritage can prove to be
beneficial for the overall outcome of the health promotion program. Despite the underlying
challenges, there is a significant requirement for evaluation of the outcomes if the prevention
is to be progressed through community based interventions (Ridani et al. 2015). Another
study conducted over Global strategy for women’s children’s and adolescents health (2016 –
2030) highlighted that people have a significant role in improving their own health and