Karyn Gellie: Community Health Nurse Acknowledgment to authors of the previous edition: Elizabeth Crock, Gemma Hartmann, Vickie Knight. This section examines health promotion in the HIV nursing context. What is health promotion? Health promotion in HIV nursing practice in Australia Health promotion into the future in HIV nursing Additional resources What is health promotion? Health …
Promoting health is a significant component of HIV nursing. Nursing ‘contributes to almost all of the foundations of well-being’ including the equitable distribution of resources and capacity building (10). The Australasian Sexual Health and HIV Nurses Association (ASHHNA) identify enabling equitable and culturally appropriate access to health care, acting to eliminate stigma and discrimination, and …
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Some health promotion experts have called for approaches with increased focus on enhancing health more broadly than the risk factor approach or disease focus (3,6). The more recent focus on well-being frameworks exemplifies this (3). This does not equate to the ‘rejection’ of prevention, public health or bio-medical approaches but rather creating a balance and …
Health Equity Matters (2022) Health Workforce Toolkit: HIV and Sexual Health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2021-2031 NSW Government STI Programs Unit Queensland Health (2021) Health Equity Toolkit Reducing stigma and discrimination associated with blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections: A stigma reduction toolkit for …
World Health Organization. Health promotion [Internet]. World Health Organization online; 2024 [Cited 2024 Feb 6]. Available from: https://www.who.int/teams/health-promotion/enhanced-wellbeing/first-global-conference. World Health Organization. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion [Internet]. 1987. World Health Organization; 2012 [Cited 2024 Feb 6]. Available from: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WH-1987. Green J, Cross R, Woodall J, Tones K. Health and health promotion. In Green J, Cross …
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