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Gidgee Healing will host a Deadly Choices program in Cloncurry this month, to encourage a healthy lifestyle among local youth. Deadly Choices' is chronic disease prevention and education initiative that aims to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members to make healthy choices. The program focuses on chronic diseases and their risk factors such as: smoking, harmful substances, physical activity and nutrition. Deadly Choices Regional Manager Daniella Hinton said Gidgee Healing were excited that the program would be delivered to a number of services in Cloncurry throughout the next couple of months. “The after school Deadly Choices program based at the Neighbourhood Centre in Cloncurry commences 14th of February, it will be run from 2.30pm to 4pm each Thursday. “Individuals that enroll in the program and successfully attend a minimum of six out of eight sessions, they will be eligible to obtain a Deadly Choices shirt upon completion of the program.” Ms Hinton said the aim of the program was to increase healthy literacy and knowledge on the risk factors of chronic disease. “It aims to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to make healthy choices for themselves and their families – to stop smoking, to eat good food, and exercise daily. “Deadly Choices also encourages our people to access their local Community-Controlled Health Service, such as Gidgee Healing, and complete an annual ‘Health Check’ – not just to see the doctor when they are sick. Prevention is better than treatment.” Gidgee Healing has successfully been running the Deadly Choices program since 2015, delivering the program across a number of communities including; Mount Isa, Dajarra, Boulia, Camooweal, Cloncurry, Normanton, Burketown and Doomadgee. Ms Hinton explained how the initiative came about. “Indigenous Australians experience a disproportionately high burden of chronic disease compared to other Australians, with an age-adjusted rate of disease and injury burden in Queensland alone two times that of non-Indigenous Queenslanders. “As such, Deadly Choices, with the support of the Queensland Government, have developed the Healthy Lifestyle Campaign.” The campaign: READ ALSO: Great Western Games puts call out to sports to participate. While you are here subscribe to our weekly email delivered to your inbox at 6am every Friday.
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February 5 2019 - 12:30PM
Gidgee Healing will host a Deadly Choices program in Cloncurry this month, to encourage a healthy lifestyle among local youth.
Deadly Choices' is chronic disease prevention and education initiative that aims to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members to make healthy choices.
The program focuses on chronic diseases and their risk factors such as: smoking, harmful substances, physical activity and nutrition.
Deadly Choices Regional Manager Daniella Hinton said Gidgee Healing were excited that the program would be delivered to a number of services in Cloncurry throughout the next couple of months.
“The after school Deadly Choices program based at the Neighbourhood Centre in Cloncurry commences 14th of February, it will be run from 2.30pm to 4pm each Thursday.
“Individuals that enroll in the program and successfully attend a minimum of six out of eight sessions, they will be eligible to obtain a Deadly Choices shirt upon completion of the program.”
Ms Hinton said the aim of the program was to increase healthy literacy and knowledge on the risk factors of chronic disease.
“It aims to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to make healthy choices for themselves and their families – to stop smoking, to eat good food, and exercise daily.
“Deadly Choices also encourages our people to access their local Community-Controlled Health Service, such as Gidgee Healing, and complete an annual ‘Health Check’ – not just to see the doctor when they are sick. Prevention is better than treatment.”
Gidgee Healing has successfully been running the Deadly Choices program since 2015, delivering the program across a number of communities including; Mount Isa, Dajarra, Boulia, Camooweal, Cloncurry, Normanton, Burketown and Doomadgee.
Ms Hinton explained how the initiative came about.
“Indigenous Australians experience a disproportionately high burden of chronic disease compared to other Australians, with an age-adjusted rate of disease and injury burden in Queensland alone two times that of non-Indigenous Queenslanders.
“As such, Deadly Choices, with the support of the Queensland Government, have developed the Healthy Lifestyle Campaign.”
Addresses priorities identified in the Queensland Government’s Making Tracks toward closing the gap in health outcomes for Indigenous Queenslanders by 2033, including the leading contributors to the Indigenous burden of disease and injury in Queensland andContributes to the outcomes of, and complements, the Queensland Government’s mainstream diabetes and chronic disease program Health for Life!We want to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders eat more healthily, exercise more, and manage their chronic disease better, to help close the gap.