Nursing

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  Dementia Testing and Diagnosis

  Timely recognition of dementia requires GPS and practice nurses to be aware of and to recognize the signs and symptoms in their patients.
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  Determinants of Health

  This ClickView program addresses each of the determinants of health and outlines the impact that each determinant has on an individual's health.
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  Health Inequities in Australia

  This excellent program examines the forces that shape health needs and inequities, and the strategy, directions and actions that Australia’s health services employ in an effort to bridge the gap.
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  Influences on the Health of Individuals

  Explains how health can be determined by a range of individual, social, cultural, environmental and lifestyle factors that are dynamic and interrelated.
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  Investigating Our Health Status: Facts, Causes and Solutions

  This programme examines what people are getting sick from, dying of and how age factors into health.
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  Lifestyle Factors

  This interview based programme explores the key areas of modern lifestyles that potentially can take the most toll on our health and wellbeing, including diet, exercise, smoking and other drugs, as well as stress.
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  RUDAS Video Resource (Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale)

  The Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) is a short cognitive screening instrument designed to minimise the effects of cultural learning and language diversity on the assessment of baseline cognitive performance. This video provides a guide to administration and scoring of the RUDAS.
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  Strategies to Improve Public Health in Australia

  This ClickView video examines the aims and advantages of public health, Australia's National Health Priority Areas, the principles of the Ottawa Charter and how health promotion works.
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  Strategies to Promote the Health of Individuals

  This programme provides a detailed overview of health promotion in today's society.
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  Variations in Health Status

  This programme examines the significant impact of income, region, occupation, race and gender on health, the ways in which this manifests and the implications for health.

• Health Promotion Journal of Australia

  Available from Health Collection (Informit Database)

• 1977-13th Assembly of the World Health Organisation

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  Declared that its main goal was to promote the achievement of health for all by the year 2000.
• 1978-International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata

  This conference was the first global strategic planning meeting on primary health care.
• 1981-WHO Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000

  This strategy endorsed the report and declaration made at the 1978 Alma-Ata Conference. It also invited all WHO members to individually formulate national policies, strategies and plans toward attaining Global Health for all by the year 2000.
• 1987-Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion

  This charter reaffirmed the Alma-Ata conference and determined social justice and equity as the major prerequisite for health.
• 1988-Adelaide Recommendations on Healthy Public Policy

  Reaffirmed guidelines and developed Australian strategies.
• 1997-Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century

  The Jakarta Declaration on Health Promotion offers a vision and focus for health promotion into the next century. It reflects the firm commitment of participants in the Fourth International Conference on Health Promotion to draw upon the widest possible range of resources to tackle health determinants in the 21st century. Determinants of health: new challenges
• 2000-The 5th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Mexico

  This conference built on the advances of the previous four International Health Promotion Conferences, particularly taking forward the priorities of the last International Conference on Health Promotion held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1997.
• 2005-The 6th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Bangkok

  The Bangkok Charter identifies actions, commitments and pledges required to address the determinants of health in a globalized world through health promotion.
• 2009-The 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Nairobi

  Health and development today face unprecedented threats. The financial crisis threatens the viability of national economies in general and of health systems in particular. Global warming and climate change exert a toll in human life, especially in lower income countries. Security threats create a sense of shared uncertainty for communities around the world.
• 2013-The 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Helsinki

  This conference was co-hosted by WHO and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland. The main theme of the conference was “Health in All Policies” (HiAP) and its focus was on implementation, the “how-to”.
• 2016-The 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion, Shanghai

  The Declaration highlights the need for people to be able to control their own health – to be in a position to make healthy lifestyle choices. Noting the need for political action across many different sectors and regions, it highlights the role of good governance and health literacy in improving health, as well as the critical role played by city authorities and communities.
• 2018-Declaration on Primary Health Care, Astana (10th Global Conference on Health Promotion)

  The Global Conference on Primary Health Care in Astana, Kazakhstan in October 2018 endorsed a new declaration emphasizing the critical role of primary health care around the world. The declaration aims to refocus efforts on primary health care to ensure that everyone everywhere is able to enjoy the highest possible attainable standard of health.
• Milestones in Health Promotion 1984 - 2000

  This document outlines the key milestones from global health promotion conferences.