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What is Health Promotion ?
Health Promotion is the provision of information and/or education to individuals, families, and communities that encourage family unity, community commitment, and traditional spirituality, that makes positive contributions to their health status. Health Promotion is also the promotion of healthy ideas and concepts to motivate individuals to adopt healthy behaviours.
Goondir Health Service identifies with and uses the Ottawa Charter’s five priority action areas as a guide for Health Promotion:
Build healthy public policy
Create supportive environments for health
Strengthen community action for health
Develop personal skills, and
Re-orient health services.
To this end Goondir has a number of programs that are running this year.
Please contact or email our service for any details you may require regarding any of these services.
Base Programs (Heading)
Links to PIS
Asthma Program (ongoing)
Diabetes Program
need commencement dates & completion dates
Living Strong + run out of St George.
Living Strong + is currently providing a healthy living lifestyle program to indigenous people in St George over 12 week periods.
Hearing Health Program
Hearing Health screenings are conducted in St George, Dalby, Miles and Oakey. Goondir Health Services is in the process of developing an MOU with the Southern Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ear Health Program to assist in providing health promotion and training to Goondir’s Hearing Health Program members.
A Substance Misuse Program is run out of our Dalby Counselling Office
Our counsellor has completed the Smoke Check training and therefore able to run small groups for people wanting to become non-Smokers. She will also be doing some training to prepare students for schoolies week in November each year.
Additional (one-off) programs
CHIC - the following programs provided by Goondir Health Services and are funded by the Dept of Queensland Health under the ‘connecting health and communities’ initiative include:
- asti wellbeing in the far south west
- living strong+
- mental health program
- excercise program
- (start/finish)Exercise Program
This is a complimentary program to the Asthma and Diabetes Program that encourages clients to participate in physical activities and healthy eating.. The criteria for participants registering in the program requires that they have been diagnosed with diabetes or asthma, are indigenous, are clients of Goondir Health Service and have a Doctor’s letter to confirm that they are able to participate in an exercise program. The project is a collaborative partnership involving Goondir, Bungeeba Sport and Recreation Centre, Community Health and LINCS (Queensland Health), with assistance provided by from QAIHC
The exercise programs will be run over twelve week periods.
Goondir’s Involvement in Research Projects
ACCESS (period of funding/research)
is a collaborative research project involving the Burnett Institute in Melbourne. The project involves research into the sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Chlamydia under the project heading ‘ The Australian Collaboration for Chlamydia Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance’ (ACCESS). Passive surveillance has indicated that Chlamydia is a significant problem, however it has not provided a systematic means of measuring any changes in testing levels by specific target groups, or assessing time trends with any confidence. The ACCESS research is aimed at eliminating these short falls, and together with passive surveillance, give Australia a robust Chlamydia surveillance system.
ACCESS involves the establishment of six separate Chlamydia sentinel surveillance
Networks each providing unique information on testing uptake and prevalence of Chlamydia infection in a range of priority populations. Indigenous people being one of the priority populations. Goondir Health Services has been selected as a research site for this project.
ACCEHR
The Centre for Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) has enabled research in the area of sexually transmissible and blood borne viral infections that will be conducted by The National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR) along with National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO). This partnership arrangement between NCHER and NACCHO was formed in April 2008.
This clinical research program will be supported by five selected ACCHS in urban and regional areas. The aim of the project is to identify the profound impacts on clinical practice and program delivery in this sector including in the areas of diagnosis, treatment and management of blood borne viral and sexually transmitted infections that will lead to better health outcomes for Aboriginal people. This new research body, together with it’s partners, is known as the Aboriginal Collaborative Center for Excellence in Health Research
Goondir’s Programs Manager has been selected as the research site investigator for this project. The University of New South Wales is a participant in this project on behalf of NCHECR. The project will run over five years from 2009 – 2013.
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