True or false. Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
True. Australia is known as the Skin Cancer Capital of the world!
What are barriers?
Barriers stop, prevent or make it harder for someone to improve themselves or 'flourish’
A strength-based approach
The 3 types of resources are....
Personal, social and community
What is one barrier and one enabler that a teenager might face with regard to sun safety?
Example barrier: Spending lots of time in the sun at school.
Example enabler: Getting good sun safety education.
What do the 5 'S' stand for in sun safety advertising?
Slip, slop, slap, seek, slide
What are enablers?
Enablers allow, promote or encourage people to grow and develop
The river of life uses what 3 health components to move toward a position of ease or dis-ease?
resources, barriers and enablers.
The 3 key principles in the Ottawa Charter are...
Enable, mediate and advocate
For a person who lives in a rural town, what resource might become a barrier?
Access to sun safety resources, access to skin clinics, sun safety advertisements and campaigns etc.
True or false. Skin cancer is entirely preventable.
True. Using sun safety measures can help prevent skin cancer.
Access to sun safety equipment like sunscreen, hats, clothing, sunglasses and more is an example of a barrier or an enabler?
Enabler. Because these things help to prevent skin cancer/skin damage from the sun.
What moves a person toward a position of ease?
What moves a person toward a position of dis-ease?
Enablers
Barriers
The Social justice principles include...
Equity, diversity and supportive environments
Using salutogenesis, turn the following into strength-based approaches to sun safety:
●Sunburn
●Skin cancer related deaths
●Poor attitude toward sun safety behaviours like wearing sunscreen
●Lack of Vitamin D
●Sun safe equipment to stay safe from UV rays
●More skin cancer research and clinics
●Better education about skin cancer and sun safety
●Knowledge about sun safe times and hours
From the sun, what actually causes skin cancer?
UV rays
What is an example of a sun safety barrier?
Not having access to sun safety information or resources, having a negative attitude about sun safety, not interacting with any sun safety advertisements or campaigns etc.
Resources (eg. personal resource of attitude could either be a barrier [negative attitude toward sun safety] or an enabler [positive attitude toward sun safety]).
What is one data trend that can be identified from the following graphic?
The amount of money people spend on clothes has decreased over time.
What is one example for each of a personal, social and community resource for sun safety?
Personal - Positive attitude toward sun safety
Social - Having a family that supports and promotes being safe in the sun
Community - Going to a school that enforces hat wearing and has many shaded areas to play and eat lunch
Skin cancer can begin to grow in as little ...... minutes.
15 minutes!
Categorise each of the following as either a barrier or an enabler:
1. Having lots of skin cancer clinics in the region
2. Being taught about sun safety in school and at home
3. Stereotypical beliefs in Australia about the sun and tanning
1. Enabler
2. Enabler
3. Barrier
Identify how the following resources can either be barriers or enablers, be specific:
-Skin cancer clinics
-Sun safety resources (like hats and sunscreen)
Skin cancer clinics can either be a barrier (no skin cancer clinics in the region) or an enabler (access to skin cancer clinics in the region).
Sun safety resources can be a barrier (no access to or misunderstanding sun safety resources) or an enabler (access to and understanding of sun safety resources).
The 5 Ottawa Charter action areas are...
Develop healthy public policy, strengthen community action, develop personal skills, create supportive environments and reorient health services.
What is one determinant of health that could negatively impact a 65 year olds ability to move toward a position of ease with reference to sun safety?
Being born in a time when sun safety was less valued and less researched, has probably spent many years in the sun, having a lower immune system due to their age.