Promoting Good Health in Fiji

Student Activities

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1. 1. Find out more about heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, or illnesses caused by poor understandings of diet, exercise or careful handling of food. Many national health organisations have useful materials or guest speakers.
   2. Present your findings as colourful information pamphlets.
   
   
2. 1. Explain why the Fiji project focuses on young people and women.
   2. Why do you think Fijians are more likely to suffer from lifestyle diseases than Australians?
   3. Why do you think Fijian urban (city-dwelling) females are more likely to suffer from diabetes than Fijian rural (country-dwelling) females, Fijian males or Australian males or females?
   4. Why do you think Fijian urban females are more likely to suffer from obesity than Fijian urban males and Australian urban males and females?
   
   
3. Draw a futures wheel or flow chart, beginning with 'unwell person' showing what can happen to that person and the wider community arising from that person being unwell.
   
4. 1. Find out more about the healthy diet pyramid. Draw the pyramid on poster paper and attach examples of the different foods from colour magazines.
   2. Do you eat according to the pyramid? If not, how could you change your diet?
   
   
5. Imagine that you and perhaps a partner work either for the Centre in Fiji or a health organisation in Australia and you have been asked to work on a special project, either to help reduce the problems caused by poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, high alcohol consumption or poor handling of food, or, to focus on the lifestyle diseases of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. Select one of the following methods of presenting your 'good health' messages to your audience:
   1. write the script for a radio advertisement, an interview with a health official or a talkback program between a health official and one or more callers to the station
   2. role play and videotape a television advertisement
   3. plan and videotape an aerobics segment for either a young, old or mixed age audience
   4. design large, colourful posters for display around your school
   5. design stickers and phone card messages making good use of the limited space available
   6. make up catchy phrases and perhaps add music to make jingles about good health
   
   
6. Why do you think the Fiji Trilateral Health Promotion Project has been so successful?

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