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Table 2 Responses of the participants captured through Poll Everywhere

From: Oral health academics’ conceptualisation of health promotion and perceived barriers and opportunities in dental practice: a qualitative study

Poll question

Responses (presented as they were sent into Polleverywhere)

What is health promotion?

Is multi-layered

Going beyond individual health education and looking at the influencing factors that contribute to personal health choices

changing the conditions that influence health and allow people to control their lives—culture, environments, supports, policies

Changing individual choices on behaviour related to health

Promoting healthy choices by creating an upstream approach. Creating healthy public policy to create supportive environments

Provide individuals and communities with information and the tools to improve health literacy, so they can make choices/ changes to improve over all health. Social determinants of health and the social contexts need to be considered in the development and implementation of any health promotion activities

The process of enabling people to take control over their own health

Combination of educational, political and environmental factors contributing to individual and community health. Health promotion aids to empower individuals and communities to take control of their own health. It's a multidisciplinary approach which entails social determinants of health, the common risk factor approach to health and health advocacy

Giving information to an individual or group that is relevant to improving their well being

Providing oral health messages to enable individuals and public to make informed choice about their health

Raising awareness of health and well being

sharing good health messages

providing information and strategies to enable healthy lifestyle changes to individuals and communities from best evidence based research and practice

Educating individuals, groups and the wider community on living well, improving health and making better lifestyle choices

Preventing disease at a community, not individual level. Empowering people to ensure health choices are positive

engaging with the community to deliver messages that may improve health outcomes

providing information to empower people to make healthy choices

is the action of improving individual and community health by applying measured approaches

Educating people about healthy alternatives, so they are motivated to make an informed choice about their health

A group of strategies that improve health and well being of the individual or community group

Sharing health messages with communities and groups

increasing knowledge and empowering communities to change health behaviour

Developing and delivering health messages

Delivering health messages to the community

What health promotion could we do in practice that we are not already doing?

Decent effective tailored behavioural interventions, collaborating with other health organisations to incorporate oral health, advocacy- talking up oral health

To further develop interprofessional sustainable health promotion project work

Focus more on social determinants of health and community outreach

COHA2 actively working with health professionals, integrating oral health as an underpinning thread of all health promotion … Getting back to 'we

More community awareness of healthy options. Making healthy choices more attractive. Enabling at risk groups within the communities. Interdisciplinary cooperation regarding wholistic health promotion

Working more heavily in marginalized communities, taking students out of the formal clinical environment

Try to better educate GP's

actively working with health professionals to integrate oral health as an underpinning thread of all health promotion … Getting back to 'we have

Capacity building of non-dental and non-health (e.g. Educators) professionals to deliver oral health messages

Continuing support from Local Health Districts or communities when there is lack of cohesion

In practice it is at times difficult for management to see value in a operator taking time out to provide health promotion to the community

Integrating health promotion with other faculties within the university

large scale media promotion—television/radio etc.—single, targeted, collective message

work with other allied health professionals

Universities should become health promoting environments e.g. Healthy together Victoria Achievement program

Make a video aiming it at secondary school students and ask schools to integrate it into their health promotion plans

Routine ethics approval for students projects to enable the students' research to be placed in the academic arena

Work with other groups, health and community, and deliver messages along side pre-organised events

more collaboration with other health disciplines to create an wholistic approach

Integrating oral health messages within existing primary/secondary/tertiary School curriculum

Linking health promotion strategies between BOH students and MOD students

At university we should encourage inter professional practice, mix student cohorts, integrate health students

use social media in private practice to foster community health for patients

Engaging with health services outside dental and oral health

Using social media as a platform for health promotion

Risk assessment for communities rather than individuals

Focused individual and community approaches based on accurate risk assessment

What are the barriers for health promotion implementation in practice?

Outcome measures not always tangible

Govt needs to quantify distribution of public funding

Does not have high importance in practice

Health promotion does not produce instant measurable results. Therefore unable to measure benefit

Mutually beneficial student placements

Public fear of being told off

Public not interested

Lack of understanding people's needs in order to deliver effective and appropriate oral health promotion

Clinical efficiency valued and rewarded as able to be measured

Challenges engaging communities in health promotion activities

The dominance of the bio medical model of health care

Insurance rebates for health promotion interventions

Limited public resources prioritised on treating current disease first

public perceptions of the value of preventive/health promoting interventions

Limited time and importance placed on health promotion

An inability to value the relationship building elements of good health promotion

Expectation that the OHTherapist role is in the mouth. No time allocation, no monetary rewards

Not seen by the dental profession as been 'core business'

In private practice, time spent needs to equal revenue

Private practice employers want "bums on seats" not community service

Time involved in planning and delivering health promotion activities

Lack of research demonstrating cost effectiveness

Lack of continued funding for projects

Resources AND an overload of 'health messages' generally the population become complacent

Lack of opportunities and support for clinicians to participate in health promotion activities

Health promotion is deemed as less prestigious than clinical practice

Limited time and money

Lack of continuity of care due to new organisational structures

Token gestures in practice due to lack of overall HP strategy. Need a policy making role in health administration

Pressure from employers to perform at the expense of HP.—$$$ on the table

Some students don't think it is important, focussing too on perfecting clinical surgical treatment

Time and cost

Lack of remuneration, time, confidence

High patient workloads

Cultural barriers

Private practice—cost & time

Funding systems

Cost

Knowledge gap by managers in private and public sectors. HP is not audited, poorly renumerated, poorly included in CPD course