Promoting and Maintaining Health and Well-being Health promotion agencies

There are a wide range of agencies that aim to promote health in Wales. These agencies will focus upon different areas of health and can be government run or voluntary organisations, such as charities. They include:

National Health Service (NHS) Public Health Wales Local Authorities, including schools National and local voluntary charitable and voluntary

organisations, such as .the Family Planning Association, British Heart Foundation, British Nutrition Foundation

NHSThe NHS covers the whole of the U.K. and has a major role in promoting the health of the population. The NHS provides diagnostic services and treatments for various health conditions. If an individual is diagnosed with a condition appropriate advice and treatment would be offered in order to try and maintain the individual’s health and well-being. The NHS also offers health promotion service (Public Health Wales) and advice to try and encourage individuals to make healthy choices and to prevent ill health. This can include advice and services about issues such as:

Mental health and well-being Health eating Sexual health Alcohol and drugs Oral health

Activity 1Use the activity 1 handout. Name some of the advice and services that The NHS health promotion offers.

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Key wordsNHS

Public Health Wales

Local Authorities

Schools

Charitable and voluntary organisations

Health and wellbeing

Local authoritiesCouncils have been given a leading role to reduce health inequalities and premature deaths, and improve health and wellbeing.

They are required to tackle to the cause of ill-health, reduce health inequalities and commission services that address the needs of the local population; particularly the health needs of the disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, as well as giving consideration to

equality issues.

The overall goal being to improve the health of all individuals, but to improve the health of the poorest.

Activity 2Use the activity 2 handout. Decide which health campaign you would run and explain which resources you would borrow and how you think they will help

SchoolsSchools promote health by providing health education through both the formal curriculum during lesson times and through the informal curriculum, such as through assemblies. Through the formal curriculum classroom -based topics that might include: healthy eating, mental health and well-being and sexual health. Through the informal curriculum topics such as road safety may be addressed, for

example having an assembly on road safety or bullying prevention.

Teachers and lecturers can encourage positive attitudes and healthy living and advise on general well-being. They can carry out classroom activities to promote health, such as projects on diet and facilitate physical education.

Public Health Wales believe that teaching and l earning can help an individual build the knowledge and skills they need to grow into health individuals through:

• Knowledge – underpinning (e.g. how the human body works; the NHS and other services: wider influences on health and wellbeing)

• Knowledge – topic or theme specific (the effect of smoking on the body; nutrition)

• Skills – cross cutting (assertiveness; conflict resolution; risk assessment and management)

• Skills – topic or theme specific (physical skills or practical food preparation)Julie Bishop – Public Health Wales

Activity 3Use the activity 32 handout. Identify which statement applies to you

Charitable organisations Charities work both on a local and national level. National charities extend their work across the whole of the U.K. Health promotion charities raise awareness about health- related conditions and provide support to and advice those that are affected. National charities that promote health include:

British Heart Foundation Cymru Dementia UK MIND Cymru Diabetes U.K. Cymru Marie Curie Mental Health Foundation Wales

Local charities work on a much smaller scale and generally focus their work within a town, city or county or country within the U.K. Their funds tend to be more limited compared to a national charity. Charities that work on a local level within Wales include:

WaMH in PC- Primary Mental Health Care and Services - Wales Gofal Hafal Latch Welsh Childrens Cancer Charity Welsh Hearts

Activity 4Use the activity 4 handout. Cut out the cards and decide whether these national charities support physical health or mental health.

Activity 1Name some of the advice and services that The NHS health promotion offers.

Activity 2Access the resources available to borrow when running health living campaigns at local authority level.

Only four resources can be borrowed at any one time.

https://bit.ly/2PzT92Z

Thinking of the issues in your local authority, decide which health campaign you would run and explain which resources you would borrow and how you think they will help.

Activity 3Public Health Wales identified the following as statements attributed to healthy and confident individuals.

For each of the statements identify which apply to you.

• I understand how my body works and how to keep it healthy.• I can form and maintain healthy relationships with others.• I understand how my behaviour and choices can affect my health and

wellbeing both now and in the future.• I can recognise and express my feelings.• I can recognise risk and think through the immediate and future

consequences of my choices.• I can find and appraise information to help me make choices about my health

and wellbeing.• I can recognise the individual, organisational, social and cultural

values/norms, which can influence my decisions.• I can resolve conflict with others and recognise where the behaviour of others

may be a sign of their unhappiness or distress.• I have the skills to look after myself and those around me.• I recognise how government and global decisions influence people’s health.• I understand when and where I can access help.• I have the confidence and skills to assert my view and make my own choices.

For those statements you have identified as not being attributed to you, how do you think school could help you develop those skills?

Activity 4Cut out the cards and sort into two piles. Decide whether these national charities support physical health or mental health.

Asthma UK Diabetes UK Marie Curie

British Heart Foundation

Red Cross Cancer Research UK

Crohn’s and Colitis UK

Macmillan Combat Stress

MIND Mental Health Foundation

Together

PANDAS Foundation

Young Minds Anxiety UK

AnswersActivity 1Mental health and well-being

Health eating

Sexual health

Alcohol and drugs

Oral health

Activity 2Physical Asthma UK

Diabetes UK

Marie Curie

British Heart Foundation

Red Cross

Cancer Research UK

Crohn’s and Colitis UK

Macmillan

MentalCombat Stress

MIND

Mental Health Foundation

Together

PANDAS Foundation

Young Minds

Anxiety UK