Jane Taylor

University of the Sunshine Coast | USC · School of Health

Objective The proposed review will describe the characteristics, enablers, and barriers to the community health and well-being assessment (CHWA) component of the health promotion practice cycle. Introduction CHWA guides health promotion action in communities and populations. A “critical” approach to CHWA can be adopted, which addresses the social,...

This chapter describes and reflects on our program of critical health promotion research. Critical health promotion is focused on social change, challenging oppressive systems, power structures, and dominant discourses (Taylor et al., 2020). It is underpinned by explicit values and principles articulated in seminal health promotion charters and dec...

Objective: This scoping review will explore how critical health promotion is characterized in the health promotion literature. Introduction: Critical health promotion has emerged as a social justice approach to health promotion to address the persistent global issue of health inequity. Whilst critical health promotion is not conceptually new and...

Introduction Mental well-being is a global public health priority with increasing mental health conditions having substantial burden on individuals, health systems and society. ‘Stepped care’, where services are provided at an intensity to meet the changing needs of the consumer, is the chosen approach to mental health service delivery in primary h...

Background The origins of health promotion are based in critical practice; however, health promotion practice is still dominated by selective biomedical and behavioral approaches, which are insufficient to reduce health inequities resulting from the inequitable distribution of structural and systemic privilege and power. The Red Lotus Critical Heal...

Introduction: Evidence-based teaching and learning strategies should underpin any educational activity. This is particularly important for interprofessional education (IPE) activities, where there is an expectation that healthcare professions are taught using best available evidence. There is a research–practice gap that this review aims to address...

Contact with natural environments is associated with good health and well-being. Although childhood nature experiences may be important in the development of an individual's relationship with nature and subsequent well-being, previous studies have tended to focus on ‘nature’ in general, and the mechanisms by which childhood experiences influence we...

Issue addressed: The Red Lotus Critical Health Promotion Model (RLCHPM) is designed to support critical health promotion practice. This study investigated the impact of the use of the RLCHPM as a pedagogical framework for competency-based university curricula on the practice of graduates from health promotion programs from an Australian regional u...

Introduction Implementation of interprofessional education (IPE) is recognised as challenging, and well-designed programs can have differing levels of success depending on implementation quality. The aim of this review was to summarise the evidence for implementation of IPE, and identify challenges and key lessons to guide faculty in IPE implementa...

Although there is growing evidence that the flipped classroom approach (FCA) positively impacts the student learning experience and outcomes, much less is known about the educator’s experience. This study aimed to explore how educators across several disciplines in a regional Australian University describe their experience of using the FCA. Qualita...

Objective: The aim of this scoping review is to identify how food literacy is characterized and measured in the context of the Pacific Islands, and describe food literacy initiatives that may inform future policy, practice, and research. Introduction: "Food literacy" is an emerging term used to describe the knowledge, skills, and behaviors requi...

Issue addressed: Ethical values underpin the health promotion discipline and profession, and competencies required for professional practice. Understanding how ethical values are translated into professional practice is critical. The aim of this exploratory sequential mixed methods study was to explore Australian health promotion stakeholder persp...

Background: Evidence supports the health and economic benefits of breastfeeding, and the positive impact of the Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) on increasing breastfeeding rates and improving breastfeeding outcomes. The BFHI is a World Health Organization and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund initiative to promote, supp...

Issue addressed: Social media, while available to parents to inform decisions about their child's health, including immunisation, is a new area of exploration in public health. To effectively source, interpret and use such information, parents need to be health literate. This pilot study explored how parents of young children under seven years of...

Objective: To explore undergraduate students self-reported learning experience in a foundation nutrition education course/unit delivered using a flipped classroom approach (FCA), which requires students to complete independent learning before and after interactive in-class learning experiences. Methods: A descriptive cohort study design used sel...

The quality curriculum assessment practice example presented in this chapter describes and reflects on the health promotion curriculum renewal journey to develop a programmatic level assessment practice aimed at: (1) improving the judgements and consistency academics make about the quality of students’ assessable work; and (2) providing greater cla...

Problem: Despite evidence that implementation of the Initiative has been effective in increasing breastfeeding rates and duration of breastfeeding worldwide; the uptake is low with only 70 Baby Friendly accredited maternity facilities across Australia (approximately 23% of facilities). Background: The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and In...

Discourse about health that focuses predominantly on body weight is referred to as the weight-centered health paradigm (WCHP). In recent years, there has been a significant increase in critical analysis of the WCHP. This has resulted in arguments for a paradigm shift away from focusing on weight and focusing instead on health and well-being. The ai...

Issue addressed Improving the health of men is a national policy priority. The Men's Shed program is one health promoting initiative that seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of men. This study assessed Men's Shed members’ perceptions of the health and wellbeing benefits of Men's Shed activity in a large regional Queensland Men's Shed. Method...

Greater support is required in health promotion for practitioners to adopt critical approaches to their practice. Despite recognition of the role that critical reflection can play in supporting critical practice, it is underdeveloped in health promotion. This pilot study aimed to explore the use of critical reflection with health promotion practiti...

Objectives The aim of the present study was to assess the extent to which publicly available legislation, policy and guidelines related to breastfeeding and the Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) underpin and support the uptake and implementation of the BFHI in Australia.Methods Altheide's document analysis model (sample, data collection, data...

This chapter describes the Sustainability Focused Community of Practice (SFCoP) at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. The SFCoP is a diverse group of academics committed to teaching and assessing a complex and contested concept. The SFCoP emerged in response to an institutional requirement that graduates from all programs needed to de...

The field of health promotion has arguably shifted over the past thirty years from being socially proactive to biomedically defensive. In many countries this has been accompanied by a gradual decline, or in some cases the almost complete removal of health promotion designated positions within Government health departments. The language or discourse...

Issue addressed: There is increasing emphasis in the health promotion literature on the ethical imperative for the profession to move towards critical practice. A key challenge for health promotion is that critical practice appears both under-developed and under-practiced. This is evident in the omission of critical reflection from Australian and...

Issue addressed: The discipline of health promotion is responsible for implementing strategies within weight-related public health initiatives (WR-PHI). It is imperative that such initiatives be subjected to critical analysis through a health promotion ethics lens to help ensure ethical health promotion practice. Methods: Multimedia critical disco...

Effective health promotion requires models that support a critical approach. The Red Lotus Health Promotion Model was the first model to go beyond the technical aspects of practice and incorporate modern health promotion philosophical and ethical values and principles, and critical reflection components. Review of the model identified the need to a...

Introduction Primary health care (PHC) practitioners engage in health promotion (HP) activity as part of their roles. The HP capacity of PHC practitioners is therefore an important consideration in the reorientation of PHC services to deliver comprehensive as distinct from selective primary health care. Professional development strategy A professio...

Issue addressed: There is increasing emphasis in the health promotion literature on the ethical imperative for the profession to move towards critical practice. A key challenge for health promotion is that critical practice appears both under developed and practiced. This is evident in the omission of critical reflection from Australian and iIntern...

Social marketing campaigns are the most visible component of the ‘war on obesity’. Recent critiques highlight the potentially damaging aspects of such campaigns, primarily focusing on the language used, and to a lesser degree the imagery. Although most people are aware of the power of imagery to convey meaning, health professionals generally receiv...

The way we name things both shapes and reflects our feelings, judgements, choices and actions. Analyses of the changing discourse in health promotion highlight a major shift from the socially proactive health promotion first elucidated in 1986 in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, to a more biomedically defensive form of health promotion. In...

Open access available from: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/974 Background In the past twenty years the discourse of the weight-centred health paradigm (WCHP) has attained almost complete dominance in the sphere of public health policy throughout the developed English speaking world. The national governm...

Issue addressed: Children's fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption in Australia is below levels recommended for optimal growth, development and health.Methods: 'Kids in the Kitchen' is a classroom-based program that engages students in preparing FV. Impact evaluation was conducted with students from Grade 1 (around 6 years old) and Grade 5 (around 11...

Obesity is high on the agenda of governments and health and welfare agencies worldwide. The placement of body weight at the centre of discourse about health is referred to as the weight-centred health paradigm (WCHP). Critical analysis of the WCHP has increased in recent years, resulting in arguments for a paradigm shift. Critique of the WCHP encom...

Health promotion is a relatively new health science discipline focused on creating health and wellbeing at individual, group and population levels through health and health related policies and programs. Addressing inequities in the health of people via policies and programs that address the milieu of interrelated cultural, social, economic, and po...

Issue: The comprehensive primary health care approach is required to address complex health issues and reduce inequities. However, there has been limited uptake of this approach by health services nationally or internationally. Reorienting health services towards becoming more health promoting provides a mechanism to support the delivery of compreh...

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With the current challenge of rapidly aging populations, practices such as yoga may help older adults stay physically active, healthy, and fulfilled. The impact of an 8-week Iyengar yoga program on the holistic health and well-being of physically inactive people aged 55 years and over was assessed. Thirty-eight older adults (mean age 73.21±8.38 yea...

With growing concern over the ‘obesity epidemic’ in children, schools have become the front line of defence in the ‘war against obesity’. However there is a growing body of evidence of unintended harm associated with school-based health education programs framed as ‘obesity prevention’, including body dissatisfaction, eating and physical activity d...

• Basic tenets of the weight-centered health paradigm include the following: weight is within the control of the individual; weight is caused by a simple imbalance between an individual’s energy intake and energy usage; methods for successful and sustained weight loss include focusing specifically on changing eating and physical activity patterns;...

Modern health promotion practice needs to respond to complex health issues that have multiple interrelated determinants. This requires an understanding of the values and principles of health promotion. A literature review was undertaken to explore the values and principles evident in current health promotion theory and practice. A broad range of va...

There is a need for a system of values and principles consistent with modern health promotion that enables practitioners to use these values and principles to understand health and in their needs assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation practice. Grounded theory, document analysis and the authors' own practice experience were used to sys...

Issue addressed: The weight-centred health paradigm is an important contributor to the broader cultural paradigm in which corpulence is eschewed in favour of leanness. The desirability to reduce body fat or weight or to prevent gaining 'excess' fat is driven by both aesthetic and health ideals. The 'war on obesity' is a broad health-based set of p...