Report: Health Promotion Program for Women's Wellbeing in Victoria

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the Active Women and Girls for Health and Wellbeing Program, a Victorian health initiative aimed at increasing women's participation in sports and physical activities to improve their health and wellbeing. The report begins with an introduction to health promotion programs and then details the chosen initiative, including its objectives, funding, and target population, which primarily focuses on women and girls. It explores the characteristics of the target population, such as gender, age range, and location, and explains how the program addresses the needs of this group by increasing their confidence and encouraging participation in sports. Furthermore, the report identifies and discusses the influence of social determinants of health, such as family status, lifestyle, and economic situation, on women's health and their involvement in physical activities. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of considering social determinants when planning and implementing health promotion initiatives. The references include books, journals, and online resources related to health promotion and women's health.

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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pressure of society. It has been found that increasing this participation of women in physical
activities and sports can enhance their health and wellbeing as well.
3. Characteristics of target population
Target population has different kinds of characteristics on the basis of which they have
been chosen and focused upon for this health program imitative:
Gender: Gender is one of the main characteristics on the basis of which target population of this
program has been selected (Cantor & Thorpe, 2018). Target population focused upon in this
program are Female.
Age range: There is no specific age range of women and girls focused upon in this program. But
mostly women and girls who can play sports and participate in physical activities is the main
focused. So, age group of target population is 7 years plus age approximately. Each sport has
different age group criteria like touch football has 25+ years criteria, Rugby has 12 to 17 years
age criteria etc.
Location. This health promotion imitative focuses upon Women and girl of Victoria. There are
different kinds of physical activities and sports that have been focused upon for Victorian girls
only.
Availability: This health program initiative is available at many locations. Victorian women
simply need to register themselves for Vic health and then they can participate in other cities like
Melbourne as well.
4. Explanation of program in relation to needs of population group
This program majorly focuses upon increasing active participation of women and girls for
enhancement of their health and well- being. This program helps in meeting needs of population
group in many different ways. Many times, due to lack of confidence, society pressure economic
situation of family and because of many other issues, pressure upon women and girl increases
and as a result they fail to focus upon their health and wellbeing. Many times, due to these
issues’ girls fail to participate within sports or any other kinds of physical activity. Due to these
issues, Vichealth has developed health initiative program “Active Women and Girls for Health
and Wellbeing Program”. In this program different kinds of physical activities and sports have
been included and funds for each individual program has also been decided. This program has
also decided age group of different activities and sports and focuses upon encouraging women
and girls who are interested in sports and who are not so that they can get inspired and participate
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in this program. This will not only help in increasing women participation within sports but will
also help in motivating women or girls so that they can get encouraged and take an initiative and
participate within these programs
5. Three or more social determinants of health that influence health of population group
Social determinants of health are conditions in the environment in which a person is born,
live, work, learn etc. that can affect or influence their health, wellbeing and quality of life in
many different ways (Rowe & Siefken, 2016). On the basis of previous discussion of the main
social determinants of health that have been identified are: First is family status such as material
status and childbirth. It is one of the main social determinants of heath that can impact health and
wellbeing of women and can reduce their active participation in sports and physical activities.
Next social determinant of health is life style. Many times, women and girls have a luxurious or
unhealthy lifestyle because of which not only their health and wellbeing are impacted but their
activeness is also reduced as a result their participation in sports and other activities also reduces.
Economic situation or family income of women is another social determinant of health that can
impact overall health and wellbeing of women and redue their active participation within
physical activities and sports.
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6. Influence of SDH upon planning and implementation of health promotion initiative
Getting the enough of the physical activity in the daily lifestyle have been considered as
important aspect for all over development. It is very important for good health and happiness. It
is important to note that’s all women and girl are not getting the equal participation and
opportunities to get involved in different sport and physical activity is distinctive manner.
As the health entitative programme will be tasking the proper notice on participation rate
of women as comparative to men. There is various level of key barrier of the social determinants
which are impacting to have participation in different health benefit activities (Jacob, 2016).
Women have clear feeling of societal pressures and requirements of the health disciplines. So,
the important social determinant which are paid major level of focus in developing campaign are
Life style
This sector of the women is ignored as it is better to understand as the life style of women is
totally different as comparative to man and it need more special care. The women were
identified to dies dur to uncertain health condition such as heart disease, stroke, alcohol-related
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complications like increased risk of breast cancer, and mental health disorders. On the other
hand, the health status of married women and more generous as single ones. The married women
have significantly need the fairly supports and better social relationship to maintain the better
idea of self-care and physical fitness to certain extent.
Culture factor
Women who are the part of their LGBTQIA community are less liking have idea of getting
preventive screening for cancer. there are higher risk of the sexually transmitted diseases or
alcohol abuses which have access to health insurances due to legal discrimination (Alexander
and et.al., 2020). The social cultural factor has the effect on development and human body
consumption and its behaviour. So, the campaign is paying major level of emphasis of the
gender equality and more level of feasible participations into the sport benefits. The campaign
will have involvements of small local clubs which will motivate the women to have better idea
for overall development.
Economic or income group.
The women have face certain level of issue to succeed in career and maintaining the better
financial position in the society as comparative to men. This make to have ore strong struggle in
creating negative impact on overall health (Ng, Bardzell and Bardzell., 2020). The campaign is
helpful in developing the new programmes demonstration clear commitments in order to have
achieve of general balance in al public events and marketing in the organization by priority the
access to women and girls facialists they have right to use.
CONCLUSION
From the above file, it can be concluded as Health promotion and disease prevention program
focuses upon different health and wellbeing aspects of different group of people. Women and
girl are main target population for becoming active and enhance their overall health in a positive
manner. Health and wellbeing of women as compared to men is decreasing and their
participation within sports in much lower as compared to men. The married women have need
supports and social relationship to maintain the better idea of self-care and physical fitness to
certain extent.
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REREFENCES
Books and Journals
Alexander, L.L & et.al., (2020). New dimensions in women's health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Jacob, J.A., (2016). Public Health Campaign Focuses on Teen Sexual Health. Jama, 315(4),
pp.336-336.
Ng, S., Bardzell, S. & Bardzell, J., (2020). The Menstruating Entrepreneur Kickstarting a New
Politics of Women's Health. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
(TOCHI), 27(4). pp.1-25.
Hlth, G. P., & MEc, G. E. H. (2020). Promoting environmental sustainability, equity and health
in Victorian Primary Care Partnerships. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 31(2).
298-308.
Rowe, K., & Siefken, K. (2016). Sport and health promotion. Managing sport development: An
international approach, 121-134.
Adler, N. E., Glymour, M. M., & Fielding, J. (2016). Addressing social determinants of health
and health inequalities. Jama. 316(16). 1641-1642.
Cantor, M. N., & Thorpe, L. (2018). Integrating data on social determinants of health into
electronic health records. Health Affairs. 37(4). 585-590.
Online
Health initiative program. (2020). [Online]. Available though:<
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/programs-and-projects/active-women-and-girls-for-
health-and-wellbeing-program >
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