Susan
c.c. Peter ‘on
hols’
Mindful that the Taskforce has to
agree a “three year work program by September 2008” and perhaps the Taskforce
may be still reviewing prospective new programmes, I have been busy embellishing
my Four Interdependent Preventive Health Business Plans to make them more
navigation-able and comprehensive.
Hence, today I posted to Peter
Morris two more CDs marked “as at
3.
provide advice on the most effective strategies for targeting prevention in high
risk sub-population including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and
people living in rural and remote locations;
5.
provide advice to Government on options for better integration of Preventive
health practice into the Medicare Schedule and other existing government
programs; and
I expended about 30 more hours on
the business plans since the earlier version “as at 1 October
2008”, but I won’t try to explain the embellishments here, suffice
that the last sentence of item 4 in the above first attachment (extracted
hereunder), limit the duties of Recreational Exercise Consultants post 2012 to
the 2 below bullet points, due to voluntary Accredited
Participants Supervising
additional Abled
Interested
Adults:
“- post 2012 voluntary Accredited
Participants would replace RECs
Supervising Abled Interested
Adults thereby enabling RECs to limit their
duties to
-
* Supervising
Disabled
Interested
Adults; and
* supporting the vital
role of Community Support
Providers who are the backbone of LCCBSGs
which foster
a Sense
Of Community; and.”
Finally, whilst YELP may initially
be thought as primarily useful for reducing Diabetes, its greatest $ cost
savings would be for Climate Change, Recreational Drug Abuse and
Depression.
Re Recreational Drug Abuse, namely
alcohol and “fags”, I can readily provide the names of +20 cyclists of my circa who
previously drank a lot more alcohol, but have “eased off the
slops” due to wanting to compete with their cycling buddies. Ego is a powerful motivator. A few of theme smoked, and gave up the durries
for the same reason.
YELPs greatest benefit from my
viewpoint is reducing Depression by assisting Interested Adults to take on and
achieve lofty Challenging physical goals that they previously thought well
beyond them, which enhances self-esteem and increases self-confidence to better
handle the ‘hot kitchens of life’ (stressful situations of family and work
life). Being able to leave all the
stresses behind and cycle, hike, swim, kayak etc with your local mates on the
weekend, is a valuable “fall-back” to keeping it all together in today’s hectic
lifestyle.
Cheers
Phil
Johnston
9114.6689 0434
715.861