Sun safety
Barriers and Enablers
The River of Life
Miscellaneous
Case study
100
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!
100
What are barriers?
Barriers stop, prevent or make it harder for someone to improve themselves or 'flourish’
100
What does a salutogenesis approach mean?
A strength-based approach
100
The 3 types of resources are....
Personal, social and community
100
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.
200
What do the 5 'S' stand for in sun safety advertising?
Slip, slop, slap, seek, slide
200
What are enablers?
Enablers allow, promote or encourage people to grow and develop
200
The river of life uses what 3 health components to move toward a position of ease or dis-ease?
resources, barriers and enablers.
200
The 3 key principles in the Ottawa Charter are...
Enable, mediate and advocate
200
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.
300
True or false. Skin cancer is entirely preventable.
True. Using sun safety measures can help prevent skin cancer.
300
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.
300
What moves a person toward a position of ease?
What moves a person toward a position of dis-ease?
Enablers
Barriers
300
The Social justice principles include...
Equity, diversity and supportive environments
300
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
400
From the sun, what actually causes skin cancer?
UV rays
400
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.
400
Barriers and enablers influence our access to and correct use of what?
Resources (eg. personal resource of attitude could either be a barrier [negative attitude toward sun safety] or an enabler [positive attitude toward sun safety]).
400
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.
400
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
500
Skin cancer can begin to grow in as little ...... minutes.
15 minutes!
500
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
500
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).
500
The 5 Ottawa Charter action areas are...
Develop healthy public policy, strengthen community action, develop personal skills, create supportive environments and reorient health services.
500
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.