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YOU MIGHT BE CONCERNED ABOUT: |
YOU CAN BE PART OF THE SOLUTION BY: |
| Church leader |
- The physical health of members of your congregation
- Costs of healthcare for your employees and members
- Showing your members you care about them personally
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- Use your church to provide health screenings such as taking blood pressures
- Teach your members life skills that can save their physical lives such as healthy and nutritious cooking methods, or how to quit smoking
- Support government policies that make your congregation healthier
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| Labor leader |
- Healthy work conditions for your members
- Members that are satisfied with your organizations services
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- Promote that all workers, including those in restaurants and bars, have a healthy, smoke-free workplace
- Support government policies that make your members healthier
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| University Administrator |
- Obtaining funds for policy relevant research
- The health of your faculty, administrators and students
- Costs associated with healthcare
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- Involve your faculty in research to understand the problem and evaluate interventions
- Include chronic disease prevention in your health science programs
- Make the university environment is a model of health promotion to be followed by other institutions
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| Educator, teacher |
- Troublesome changes in lifestyle among children and adolescents
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- Promote health in programs and by example
- Include in your programs daily physical activity
- Make available healthy foods in the cafeteria or kiosks
- Screen and refer children for obesity and high risk markers
- Declare the school smoke-free
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| Health professionals and Administrators |
- Caring for those that are sick or at high risk to become sick
- Preventing diseases
- Making healthcare available to all sectors of society at an affordable cost
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| Elected official |
- Meet your campaign promises to your voters
- Support your re-election by promoting policies that are popular with your voters
- Cost associated with providing healthcare in your country and your constituents in particular
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| Government policy maker |
- Respond to the direction of your present administration
- Promote policies that improve the lives of people in your country
- Provide healthcare within budgetary constraints
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| Business leader |
- Improve the health and productivity of your employees
- Reduce the costs of absenteeism, lower productivity and health insurance
- Show your company is socially responsible towards the community
- Show your employee you care about them and their families
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| Hospital administrator |
- Plan your institutions growth based on healthcare needs in your community and country
- Reduce your costs of providing healthcare
- Position your organization as one that cares about your patients and the community
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- Present topics that might be controversial in a balanced manner, e.g, tobacco industry strategies to support tobacco consumption
- Let your audience know about the number one cause of premature death in the Caribbean
- Hold elected officials accountable when they don’t follow through with promises regarding improving health
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| Member of the Media |
- Provide your readers and viewers with significant news that affects their health
- Improve your audience numbers with news of interest to them
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| Parent |
- The health of your family
- Accessibility of affordable healthcare and preventive services
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- Make healthy habits routine in your household
- Promote family members to control blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol by seeing a health professional and adhering to treatment
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| Urban planner, municipal authority |
- Making your city livable and appealing to its inhabitants
- Attracting tourists
- Lowering healthcare costs
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- Designing green spaces for people to enjoy, favoring physical activity
- Making cities safe to walk
- Consider “ciclovias,” closing streets to traffic so that people can enjoy walking, bicycle riding, and exercising outdoors
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| Human rights advocates |
- Human right abuses that degrade people’s lives
- The rights of the poor, women, the sick
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- Consider the right of all people to breath clean air, free of tobacco smoke (the number one indoor air pollutant)
- Support the right of people to have access to affordable healthcare
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| ALL |
- BEING AS HEALTHY AS POSSIBLE TO ENJOY LIFE
- AVOID COSTLY DISEASES THAT MIGHT AFFECT US AND OUR ENTIRE FAMILIES
- AVOID BECOMING A BURDEN TO OTHERS
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- SUPPORT GOVERNMENT POLICIES THAT MAKE THE HEALTHY CHOICE, THE EASIER CHOICE FOR ALL
- SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITIES, PLACE OF WORK, PLACE OF WORSHIP, SCHOOLS TO SUPPORT THE HEALTH OF ALL MEMBERS
- SUPPORT OUR FAMILY MEMBERS TO STAY HEALTHY
- EAT HEALTHY, BE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE, NOT USE OR BE EXPOSED TO TOBACCO, KEEP A HEALTHY WEIGHT, CONTROL HYPERTENSION, DIABETES AND DISLIPIDEMIAS. LIVE HEALTHY
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