Health Promotion Strategy and Practice: Addressing Health Issues

This report provides an analysis of health promotion strategies and practices in Tasmania, focusing on addressing health and social issues, particularly inequality. It utilizes Bradshaw's taxonomy of need to identify normative, felt, and comparative needs related to health inequality determinants such as social discrimination, poverty, and inadequate housing. The report also applies the Community Assets Model framework (ABCD) to assess existing strengths within the Tasmanian community, including individuals, associations, institutions, physical assets, and connections, to manage and mitigate these health and social challenges. The study concludes that health promotion programs are essential for managing health and social well-being, emphasizing the importance of identifying health and social issues and leveraging community assets to develop effective action plans for health promotion.

Health Promotion
Strategy and Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Bradshaw's taxonomy of need................................................................................................1
Community assets model framework.....................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
References ......................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health promotion and strategies practices are involving different activities and actions in
context to the analysis of health and social issues in the specific region or group of the
population. In order to effectively address all those issues with the health promotion programs.
That is involving the early stage of planing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the
health promotion actions (Carter and Bumble,(2018) . Australia population is facing various
health and social issues in context to which effective health care promotion plans are developed
with the proper analysis and study of the health determinants. In this report analysis and
evaluation of the health and social issues is done in context to the specific population group.
Along with this analysis and identification of the community assets is done in order to address
those issues with health promotion action.
MAIN BODY
In the Australia there are the different groups of population who are collectively facing
the health and social issues of inequality. Such as the Royal society of Tasmania is the oldest
society of the Australian (Epstein, (2018). The health care system of the Tasmanian has placed
to the redevelopment of health plans in order to address the key issue of health such as
inequality. The advisory council have been reported the large gaps in context to the health and
well-being. Such as there is need to increase the awareness of the need for collaboration. The
most complex challenge of the heath and social care is issues in the health outcomes due to the
health inequalities in Tasmania. There are the various social intermits of health inequality such
as the conditions and the structural process which are distributed in the society unequally. So
there is the need of changing and modify health care settings in order to improve the population
health and social equality (Farooq, (2019). This can include modification in multiple areas such
as at the social, political, physical and economical level. The health and social issues
management approaches should focus on the up streaming of the health and social care policy's
In order to tackle the key determinants of health services inequality such as housing and poverty.
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Bradshaw's taxonomy of need
The Bradshaw's model is illustrating the four categories of needs in this taxonomy.
According to this model there are the four to five type of the social needs. Such as normative,
perceptible, comparative, expressed and technical (Leo and Swei, (2021).
Normative needs- This is involving the identification of standards needs related to the
polices and regulations, such as in context to the health and social issue of Tasmania society one
of the leading issue is inequity in health and need related to addressing its determinants is
development and modification of the health and social polices along with the consideration of
equality improvement. At this level that is important to improve the different health care
polices with the best and strong regulations regarding equal acre and treatment. There is the
need of improvement at each legislative and standard guidelines which should incorporate the
new action plans of equal health care services (Pettit and Gutierrez, (2018).
Felt needs - This is involving the identification of needs in the level of people that what
improvement is essential in context to the improvement and management of health inequality
determinants. Such as the major determinants of health inequality is social discrimination,
poverty, inappropriate housing and lack of the education. So the need of improvement is in
health education, service and local authority practices which should implement the actions of
equality and justice. There is the need of improvement in employment system, housing
facilities, health care legislation, health and social care team training and guidance regrading
equal care and treatment (Raphael, (2019). At the individual level there is is the needs of
improvement in professionals working criteria and preventing the discrimination. There is the
need of improvement at each level of the regulatory and environment system such as in political,
environmental, social and economical. Environment is one of the most essential area which
influence the health condition of peoples so in context to the effective health outcomes that is
important to manage the equality in environment along with the positivity of equal health care
services.
Comparative – This is involving the management and identification of needs for each
group of the population, such as gender, age. In-relation to the health inequity issue the major
determinants are discrimination on the basis of culture, diversity, gender and age. Which
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develop the need of improvement of health and social care polices along with actions in context
to the reference of each group (Riley, (2018).
Community assets model framework
Assets based framework is also consider as the (ABCD), assets based community
development model. This helps to localise and strengthening communities through recognising,
identification, harnessing of the existing assets. In context to the management and addressing of
the health, social issues of the population, this aid to focus on the assets based strengths. In
order to asses the existing strengths of the population in context to the satisfaction and
management of all needs related to the health and social issue determinant. Below is the brief
application of (ABCD) model.
Assets based framework is also consider as the (ABCD), assets based community
development model. This helps to localise and strengthening communities through recognising,
identification, harnessing of the existing assets. In context to the management and addressing of
the health, social issues of the population, this aid to focus on the assets based strengths. In case
of Tasmania in order to deal with the inequality the assets based framework is taken into
consideration, it mainly in five elements as highlighted below:
Individual: The individuals of the healthcare and social promoters community of
Tasmania with skills are continuously working towards reducing the inequality in the healthcare
places effectively. Each and every individual is blessed with the skills and gifts which needs to
be recognised effectively (Rossi and Jeanes, (2018).
Associations: It includes the informal groups of individual such as clubs, working with a
common interest such as the volunteers are considered to be the association in this model. The
interest groups in the healthcare work or the volunteers working towards social group Tasmania
are actively working towards reducing inequality in the healthcare places.
Institutions: It includes the group of paid individuals who are mainly considered as the
professionals, in such case the professionals of the healthcare institutes of Tasmania and the
social workers are considered to be the institute working towards the welfare of the community
and reducing inequality.
Physical assets: The physical assets includes the land, building, space, and other assets
are considered to be the physical assets in this model which plays an essential role effectively. In
case of Tasmania, the building and land of the healthcare and social institute which are
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continuously working towards reducing the inequality in the various healthcare and social place
is taken into consideration. These physical assets are continuously working towards reducing the
inequality in the social places of the Tasmania (Roxas, (2020).
Connection: The last element of the framework is the connection, this includes the
exchange among the individuals for sharing their assets effectively, connections plays an
essential role in connecting and building relations with others these are mainly done through the
creators as it mainly takes time to develop relationship with others but through building the
connection it can be done easily and effectively. The various institutes and communities build
strong relationship with each other ion order to collectively work towards achieving major goal
of reducing the inequality in the Tasmania. They are continuously working towards achieving
their goals and objective of reducing the inequality (Williams and Satgar, (2021).
From the above asset model framework it is analysed that the various institute, individual
and community of the Tasmania are continuously and actively working towards reducing the
inequality in the various health care and social places of the Tasmania (Yablonsky, (2018).
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CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been concluded that health promotion program is essential in
context to the management of good health and social well-being and for the development of best
health and social care program some of the most important activities are identification of the
health and social issue of the specific area in order to effectively address all determinants of the
issues. Such as in Australia the major issue of health and social is inequality in health care,
which is very essential to address with the effective action plans of health promotion program.
In detail this is involving the identification of needs along with every determinants and this done
with the aid of Bradshaw's taxonomy of need which is providing the supportive structure of need
identification. Then in order to identify the strength or available assets for the management of
that health and social issues one of the best model is use assets based community development
model. This helps to identify the assets based strengths related to the issues management.
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