Wellness and health

promotion
Supportive Environments for Health
Supportive environment for health

 Supportive environments foster participation

in health and offer people protection from
factors that can threaten good health.
Creating supportive environments may
include: being inclusive in planning, for
example, consulting community members to
identify the best approaches to health and
wellbeing.
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Creating supportive environments
may include: strengthening links between
health and environmental strategies, for
example, implementing walking or cycling
programs. Health promotion supports
personal and social development through
providing information, education for health,
and enhancing life skills. By so doing, it
increases the options available to people to
exercise more control over their
own health and over their environments,
and to make choices conducive to health.
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 Changing patterns of life, work and leisure
have a significant impact on health. Work
and leisure should be a source of health for
people. The way society organizes work
should help create a healthy society. Health
promotion generates living and working
conditions that are safe, stimulating,
satisfying and enjoyable.
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 Systematic assessment of the health impact
of a rapidly changing environment -
particularly in areas of technology, work,
energy production and urbanization - is
essential and must be followed by action to
ensure positive benefit to the health of the
public. The protection of the natural and
built environments and the conservation of
natural resources must be addressed in any
health promotion strategy.
Create Supportive Environments

 Our societies are complex and interrelated.

Health cannot be separated from other
goals. The overall guiding principle for the
world, nations, regions and communities
alike, is the need to encourage reciprocal
maintenance - to take care of each other,
our communities and our natural
environment. The conservation of natural
resources throughout the world should be
emphasized as a global responsibility
The benefits of a supportive
environment

 Providing a supportive environment

that enables followers to succeed in
meeting their goals and contribute to the
organization is an important element of
building a team as it helps establishes that a
leader not only values the contributions of
followers but that they are also committed to
helping them succeed.
Supportive environments is both a
principle of social justice.
 Any health promotion initiative then uses
this social justice principal as it creates
supportive environments to promote health.
Remember, supportive environments
includes the physical, social and online
environments, and seeks to create the
environment in such a way that the
healthier choice is the easier choice.
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 Schools provide outdoor areas and breaks to
help ensure the mental and social health of their
students and often engage in welfare promotion
through home groups or similar programs.
 In addition to this, we are frequently exposed to
advertisements that seek to create an
environment that encourages us to seek health.
the Swap it Don’t Stop it campaign, the Don’t
Drink and Drive advertisements, the Nothing is
Healthy About a Tan commercials and much
more seek to promote a social culture.
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 The benefits of a supportive
environment

 Providing a supportive environment

that enables followers to succeed in
meeting their goals and contribute to the
organization is an important element of
building a team as it helps establishes that a
leader not only values the contributions of
followers but that they are also committed to
helping them succeed.
 Differences between monitoring and reassessment

Monitoring Reassessment

Measures progress on the “10 Evaluates whether the hospital meets

steps” the Global Criteria for the “10 steps”

Identifies areas needing Same, but also used to decide if

improvement and helps in planning hospital should remain designated
actions “Baby-friendly”

Can be organized by the hospital or Is usually organized by the national

by the national BFHI coordination BFHI coordination group
group
Pandemic environment
 Set specific expectations
 Create reusable materials
 Take advantage of support
 Cultivate community
 Focus on what matters
 Use technology well
 Make learning manageable
 Vaccinate
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