For Professionals
The resources on this page are to assist you with your health promotion work.
Partnerships
Partnership Plan (120kb)
This plan helps you work successfully in a health promotion partnership.
Target audience: Workers who want to work in partnership.
Dated: September 2011
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Program Planning and Evaluation
The Program Planning and Evaluation Tools can be found here.
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Quality health information
Developing Quality Health Information (248kb)
Evaluating Health Information with Consumers (104kb)
Making health information clear and readable (99kb)
These form a package of information to help you work with consumers to write quality health information that is clear and easy to read.
Target audience: Workers writing health information
Dated: December 2006, in review
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Breastfeeding
SA Breastfeeding Program Strategic and Action Plan 2007-2012 (541kb)
The plan describes the rationale, aims, objectives and strategies to implement the state-wide breastfeeding program.
Target audience: Program and policy managers and practitioners interested in strategic breastfeeding support
Dated: 2007, in review
'Skin-to-skin' - Our first moments together DVD
This DVD was developed by Lyell McEwin Hospital staff with support from the South Australian Breastfeeding Program team. It shows the benefits of 'skin-to-skin' contact in the first hour after birth and how skin-to- skin contact can be achieved in a hospital setting.
Target audience: Only available to Health Services – not for general public distribution.
Format: DVD, length 18 minutes
Dated: 2010
Access: Contact the Centre for Health Promotion SA Breastfeeding Program on (08) 81617777.
South Australian Breastfeeding Progam 2007-2012: Analysis of 5 years of population health interventions to improve breastfeeding rates – Executive summary (195)
This summary document describes the strengths of the SA Breastfeeding Program from 2007-2012 and provides recommendations for the next SA Breastfeeding Strategic and Action Plan
Target audience: Practitioners and managers interested in statewide breastfeeding promotion strategies in SA .
Dated: 2012
(breastfeeding, best-practice, population health, policy)
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Safe Infant Sleeping
SA Safe Infant Sleeping Standards, posters and pamphlets provide information needed to inform families about reducing the risks of babies dying when sleeping. The Standards are for workers and volunteers; the posters are for display in sites and pamphlets are for consumers.
Safe Infant Sleeping Standards.pdf
Target audience: Infant and maternal health workers.
Format: set of 3 A4 or A3 posters and DL trifold pamphlets.
Dated: March 2011
Access: For hard copies of the Standards contact Centre for Health Promotion on (08) 8161 7777. For posters and pamphlets contact SIDS and KIDS (08) 8369 0155.
E-Learning Package
The SA Safe Infant Sleeping e-learning package has been designed to ensure all staff and volunteers effectively promote and model safe infant sleep practices and environments, consistent with the South Australian Safe Infant Sleeping Standards, to parents and caregivers with infants under 12 months of age.
All participants successfully completing the e-learning package will receive a Certificate of Completion.
Go to: www.safesleeping.net.au/moodle/index.php
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Working with schools
Health promotion: better health better learning guidelines and checklist (310kb)
The health promotion guidelines and checklist will help you plan and implement successful health promotion project in schools using a whole school approach.
Target audience: Workers planning health promotion projects in schools.
Dated: November 2009
Absolutely Every Body: Achieving a body image friendly school community. A guide for teachers (1.5mb)
Absolutely Every Body. The tooklit (1.5mb)
These documents help school staff implement a range of healthy body image activities using a whole school approach. The guide provides information and examples and the toolkit provides useful resources.
Target audience: School staff and health workers planning healthy body image projects in schools.
Dated: 2011
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Social Media
Social media use in youth health promotion (1mb)
An analysis of the current research and trends in social media and what this means for youth health promotion in South Australia.
Target audience: Workers in youth health promotion and those who are interested in developing web-based health promotion strategies
Dated: June 2012
