My Heart My Family Our Culture
This project focuses on Risk Factor prevention for heart disease. It is hoped that by sharing information and raising awareness about heart disease risk factors, it will allow people to reduce their risk of chronic diseases by self management. This project follows a SELF EMPOWERMENT principle.
The needs of the health consumer are assessed and a referral is made to the appropriate service. This could be a referral to a doctor to begin NRT followed by a brief intervention program to support the client. This service is part of the ATSI cardiac rehabilitaion service implemented in WA and based at the local Aboriginal Medical Services.
Ongoing
- The coming together of health professionals both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal to give support to the design, formatting and implementation of the final .
- The ongoing support of the people and the organisations they represent to help involve Aboriginal people in their community.
Timing became an issue when there was not enough time for consultation with people and organisations in the rural and remote areas of WA, although we tried to factor their needs into the development of the resource materials
Not available yet
Evaluation will be carried out to meet the criteria for the funders. We also want to see what the outcome is from the community people to see if there has been a change in their risk factors and why or why not they had changed their life style.
Still to come. Resources will be available to other states in 2010.
Lyn Dimer
Coordinator - Aboriginal Health
My Heart My Family Our Culture
Heart Foundation WA
334 Rokeby Road, Subiaco WA 6008
Ph: (08) 9382 5924
Email: lyn.dimer@heartfoundation.org.au
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