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Is Fitspiration all bad? Culture and community vs public health messaging
By Shelley Ratcliffe Is Fitspiration all bad? Culture and community vs public health messaging A little bit about me… Hi everyone, my name is Shelley Ratcliffe and I’m a third year health science student, majoring in health promotion at Flinders...
eHealth Queensland Expo 2016 recap
By Claire Condon The first Queensland Health eHealth expo (held on 2nd June 2016) brought together a range of people working in the health and technology sectors to “foster collaboration, promote industry engagement and discuss opportunities & challenges in...
Anzac Day Social Media – What should our organisation post?
Are Anzac Day social media fails 'Fresh in your Memories'? Even though this epic social media fail is now many years old, it still stands to be one of the most distasteful Anzac Day posts, and PR mis-fires. If you are reading our humble little blog, there’s a good...
Social Media Case Study: Children of Parents with a Mental Illness national initiative
Huge thanks to Sarah Horwood, Online Manager, COPMI for sharing her insights with our blog readers. Background The Children of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) national initiative promotes better outcomes for children who have a parent with a mental illness. We...
Considering health equity and the digital revolution in practice (guest blog)
Guest post by Rachel Katterl Rachel Katterl is the Coordinator of Pozhet: The Heterosexual HIV Service in New South Wales and the Manager of the Women’s Health Service in the Sydney Local Health District. She has worked in public health for ten years in research,...
How to pitch an idea in 4 simple steps
Like most skills, pitching an idea is a learnable skill, not one that comes naturally. Ideas take many forms. Your idea might be: an app a resource an intervention tool a service a new position in an organisation a new policy direction. Regardless of what it is...
The Ice Bucket Challenge and what it means for health promotion
2014 brought a new social media phenomenon to the world - the ice bucket challenge. Basically it involves tipping a bucket of ice water on one's head, recording it on video and uploading to various social media platforms (typically Facebook which is the most popular...
10 tips for using social media to promote health: reflections from Fertility Week (Guest Blog)
By Rebecca Zosel, Health Promotion Advisor, Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA). I recently had the privilege of managing a national fertility awareness campaign, which gave me the opportunity to engage with social media more intimately than...
Who I follow to keep up to date on social media
Every day I read one or more recent articles, blog posts or stats about social media. Most of the time, these are written for businesses in mind who have different objectives than public health organisations. My job is to then translate social media tools and trends...
Networking and careers advice for health promotion
I recently sat on a panel for undergraduate health promotion students at the University of South Australia to provide some insight into health promotion careers and networking. Previous experience with students shows that it's best to incorporate sessions on careers...
SA Primary Health Care Practitioner Award 2014
I would like to thank the Australian Health Promotion Association and Public Health Association of Australia, SA Branches for the honour of receiving the SA Primary Health Care Practitioner Award for 2014. Both these organisations have been instrumental in my...
What do social media and moving house have in common?
We recently moved house. With two little kids. I can sense your sympathetic looks as you read this. Amid the chaos, I realised that not only do social media and health promotion have a lot in common, but so do social media and moving house. Here's why: Both cost time...
What is co-working and what could it mean for health promotion?
Have you heard about co-working? It’s where a range of professionals, in particular individuals/freelancers and small businesses work together in the same space to achieve their individual goals. There is a special kind of osmosis, collaboration, cross-pollination...
How to survive the health promotion apocalypse
It feels like we are in the midst of the health promotion apocalypse. Programs that were once supposed to be significant investments to prevention have been suddenly cut. Have zombies eaten the brains of politicians and decision makers who fail to see the benefits...
Guest blog: Ten Reasons to use Twitter by Tarun Weeramanthri
This article first appeared in 'InTouch', Newsletter of the Public Health Association of Australia, March 2014. Republished with Tarun's permission. By Tarun Weeramanthri, Executive Director, Public Health and Clinical Services Division, WA Health Twitter:...
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