Herewith a selection of tweets from the Australian Health Promotion Association conference in Sydney today. (You can find a more comprehensive wrap-up at this Storify from the conference organisers, @ahpa_au.)
It seems the app workshop was very popular (and we hope to report more on this later) – a reminder of the need to broaden the capacity (and perhaps definition) of the health promotion workforce.
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There was also a lot of interest in the topic of reducing sitting in the workplace, which was the subject of a few presentations.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5UiBCfn6Y[/youtube]
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Thanks to Nathan Appo, (aka @Elusive_Sausage), an Indigenous healthy lifestyle worker from Brisbane, for tweet-reporting on these health promotion initiatives.
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It seems that for some, the professional is also personal – the irony of stressful workplaces for those working in health promotion.
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There was also some professional self-reflection about the gender imbalance.
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Denise Fry (see her previous writing for Croakey on the difference between primary care and primary healthcare) also encouraged participants to reflect on their use of language – “target”, for example, does not imply two-way communication or processes.
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On a related theme – I liked this take from the Mark Dooris presentation (covered in full here). To engage the wider community in health promotion, make like a party rather than the end of the world…
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Nice to see the health promotion crowd practising what they preach.
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And also good to see some recognition for AHPA member Professor Chris Rissel (who will be well known to regular Croakey readers).
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Croakey has become used to seeing complaints from tweeters at various conferences about presenters filling their slides with small, illegible type.
So it’s nice to see some positive feedback for a presenter (the figure on the slide is for alcohol-related harm).
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Finally to end this post with the way the day began – an acknowledgement of the importance of country seems particularly important at a conference focused on the links between place and health.
And thanks to the conference tweeters, including:
@TowlLikeBowl @thedinnergirls @Tessy_P
@Sam_Raheb @zockmelon @Elusive_Sausage
@leannecraigie
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For previous coverage of #AHPA2013:
• Converging crises of environmental degradation and social injustice
• Indigenous tweeps out in force
• Conference preview by Suzanne Gleeson
In collaboration with conference organisers and tweeters, the Croakey Conference Reporting Service is providing an overview of key sessions and discussions.
