Diabetes and Health Promotion

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Diabetes and Health Promotion
July 2006
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Health promotion

• Session outline
• A social view of health
• Health promotion a definition
• Model of health promotion Ottawa Charter
• Health promotion to prevent / delay diabetes
• Whos at risk?
• Regular exercise
• Tips for healthy eating
• Stop smoking
• Using the Ottawa Charter matrix
• Review initial ideas

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A social view of health

• What is health?
• Why are you healthy?
• What were you doing?
• What was happening around you?
• What was it that made you feel healthy?

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Health promotion

• Definition
• Process of enabling people to develop skills and
  take action to improve their health.

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A model of health promotionOttawa Charter

• Building healthy public policy
• Creating supportive environments
• Strengthening community action
• Developing personal skills
• Re-orientating health services
• (WHO, 1986)

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Ottawa Charter
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Health promotion to prevent / delay diabetes

• What is type 2 diabetes?
• Why do I need to be concerned?

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Whos at risk

• Age
• Family history
• Weight
• Lifestyle
• History of gestational diabetes
• Ethnicity

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Regular exercise

• Fitness and well-being
• Healthy weight
• Regular program
• Health check

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Tips for healthy eating

• Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods.
• Eat wholegrain breads, cereals, rice, pasta,
  noodles, vegetables (including legumes) and
  fruits.
• Choose low fat foods and cook using low fat
  cooking methods.
• Eat only a small amount of sugars and foods
  containing added sugars.
• Choose low salt foods.
• Drink plenty of water.
• If you drink alcohol, limit your intake to 1 for
  women and 2 for men standard drinks per day.

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Stop smoking

• QUIT line 13 1848
• Oral medication (Zyban)
• Nicotine replacement therapy may be helpful
• sublingual tablets
• inhalers
• chewing gums
• patches

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Example of Ottawa Charter
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Example of Ottawa Charter
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Review initial ideas

• What is possible within your ward/unit?
• What do you need, to be able to do this?