interventions
This is were, as future health promotion practicians, can start to change the messaging around health and to stop looking for a quick fix to fool the masses that 'change' is being implemented. The 'little by little' approach, instead of an 'all or nothing' mindset needs to be pushed.
Addressing equity also requires not just addressing groups who are mostdisadvantaged but also flattening the health gradient. This means that the middle groups experiencehealth that is both closer to the top and bottom groups
Asking today's society to give up some of their 'stuff' to give it to others is a very hard sell. This type of societal change will never occur in the short term, with people's individual sense on entitlement. This will only occur when the next generation of leadership come into office, who have the courage to undertake this.
They note “Humans use differentforms of knowing and different forms ofknowledge for different purposes. There isno necessary hierarchy of knowledgeinvolved until we need to discriminate onthe basis of fitness to purpose” (Kelly et al.,2006).
This an issue in all policy that is developed out of governments, as so much work goes into it's development, the requirement for the focus to pivot, for the purposes of ensuring that it remains 'fit for purpose', trying to ensure all factors that impact social determinants of health is very complex.