In the words of the Stanford Design Program, I would like to encourage and support health promotion professionals  "to develop new trans-disciplinary methodologies that juxtapose Design Thinking, the behavioral sciences, social economics, technology strategy, business strategy and systems analysis" in order to make health promotion a holistic process of human engagement. In a summary of key quotes from grea ...

Challenges and changing context in the 21st century Cited from " Global Health Promotion scaling up for 2015 - A brief review  of major impacts and developments over the past 20 years and challenges for 2015" 1. Changing health burden  and complex determinants of health Developing and developed countries facing a growing population of elderly, and a population with more chronic conditions and non communicab ...

The following data has been drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website on the 5th of Febuary 2013. The data was collected in 2001 during the Census. There has been no update yet or I have not been able to locate it. If you have current information please share it in the comment section below. We definitely lack the quantitative figures that  organization like the Pew Internet Research Centre are ...

The potential for gamification to be a game changer in remote aboriginal health is waiting to be explored and analysed. In the last 3 months I have learnt that aboriginal youth are similar to their non aboriginal peers, equally fascinated and interested in playing video games. Its a known fact here where I live that if the kids are not outside playing they could possibly be watching a movie or playing games ...

To blog and share my work with people from all over the world whilst living in a tiny Aboriginal community called Birritjimi in  East Arnhem Land is a dream come true. This is where the true value of technology and design based research and health promotion is put to the test. When both these fields of expertise overlap, we can bridge the health and cross cultural communication gap between Indigenous Austra ...

It’s National Transplant Week in the UK and Youth Health 2.0 is happy to help the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) raise awareness of organ donation by publishing the infographic below which focuses on issues such as waiting times for organ transplants, annual mortality rates due to lack of available organs, and the gap between people who believe that organ donation is the right thing to do versus people wh ...

HITnet - Heuristic Interactive Technology, is a social enterprise for innovation and Internet-based communication in Australia. HITnet adopts a dialectic approach to content creation (Williams 1974 and Weiner 1997) whilst finding its place in some of the remotest locations in Australia. HITnet implements a systematic but creative process of content creation and considers the ways in which the 'community' or ...

Today's article in The Age brought to my attention by @Rantz, makes apparent that services preventing youth suicide are still working out their position in the online world, as young people increasingly use social media to seek help. This is a problem that needs to be solved from a leadership and policy perspective in order for health services to become more relevant to the needs of young people. The title ...

Image by GDS Infographics via Flickr At Youth Health 2.0, I am passionate about how tools and messages are designed to inspire young people towards better health outcomes. This blog post is about us leaving something behind when we die so that someone else, whom we do not know will have a better outcome. The FilmLife Project is dedicated to increasing awareness around organ donation in conjunction with Dona ...

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