Promoting Good Health in Fiji
Student Activities
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- Find out more about the causes and consequences of one or more of the following: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and illnesses caused by inadequate knowledge of nutrition, exercise or careful handling of food.
- Invite a guest speaker from a national health organisation to speak at your school.
- Present your findings in the form of information pamphlets.
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- What are some of the elements of western foods and lifestyles which can cause health problems?
- Why do you think that 'in many cases, Fijians are now more seriously at risk (of western foods and lifestyles) than the residents of western countries where the foods and lifestyles have originated'?
- Explain why 'the project has two particularly strong focuses' on young people and women.
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- Why do you think Fijian urban females are more likely to suffer from diabetes than Fijian rural females, Fijian males or Australian males or females?
- Why do you think Fijian urban females are more likely to suffer from obesity than Fijian urban males and Australian urban males and females?
- There are inadequate statistics for obesity in Fijian rural communities.
- Do you think rural males and females would be more or less likely to be obese than urban males and females? Explain your reasoning.
- Do you think females would be more or less likely to be obese than males in rural or urban communities? Explain your reasoning.
- Draw a futures wheel or flow chart, beginning with 'unwell person' showing the various consequences for the individual and the wider community arising from that person being unwell.
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- Find out more about the healthy diet pyramid. Draw a large representation on poster paper and perhaps attach examples of the different foods from colour magazines.
- Assess how well your lifestyle follows the model of good nutrition. Could you make any changes? If so, what?
- How at risk are you from the lifestyle diseases caused by lack of exercise, smoking or excessive alcohol consumption? Could you make any changes? If so, what?
- 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 devise a project, either to help reduce the problems caused by poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption or poor handling of food, or, to focus on the lifestyle diseases of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. Select one or more of the following methods of delivering good health messages to your audience:
- write the script for a radio advertisement, your interview of a health official or a talkback program between a health official and several callers to the station
- role play and videotape a television advertisement
- devise and videotape an aerobics segment for either a young, old or mixed age audience
- design large colourful posters for display in your school community
- design stickers and phone card messages making effective use of the limited space available
- devise catchy phrases and perhaps add music to make jingles to capture public attention
- What do you think have been the main contributing factors to the success of the Fiji Trilateral Health Promotion Project?
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