Guest speaker, Denise Kuzmic, General Manager of the Bentleigh Bayside Community Health Centre gave us some food for thought in her presentation on Health Promotion.
She attended the Health Promotion Conference in Vancouver this year. The aim of Health Promotion is to work on global health and seak equity in the industry. She said that by increasing our control and improving our own health then this would go a long way in assisting the community to take care of its health needs. “We should prevent illness than treat it,” she said. “It’s not a matter of spending all the money on hospitals and seeing the benefit of this going to a small group of people, health is a community concern,” she added.
It’s interesting to note that there’s more to health than just being sick..“Our environment plays a major impact on our health; it’s our social status; financial situation; physical health, parenting, quality of life, financial status and many other factors that determines our health state – not just the absence of disease.
More information about the Vancouver IUHPE Conference may be found at: http://www.iuhpeconference.org/en/conference/about.htm
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