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Unit 4: Globalisation, Consumer and Personal Health
Quick questions on Help-seeking and accessing services: WACE Year 12 Health Studies Unit 4
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What is sources of help?Show answer
Help comes from informal and formal sources. Informal sources are the people around a person: family, friends, peers and trusted adults, who offer support, advice and encouragement and are often the first place people turn. Formal sources are services and professionals: general practitioners, counsellors and psychologists, school health staff, helplines and online services, and emergency care. Effective help-seeking often moves from informal to formal support, with a trusted person encouraging the step to professional help.
What is enablers of help-seeking?Show answer
Several factors make help-seeking more likely. Health literacy helps a person recognise a problem, know that help exists and know how to reach it. Affordable and physically accessible services lower the practical cost of seeking help. Trust in providers, confidentiality and a non-judgemental response encourage people to come forward.
What is barriers to help-seeking?Show answer
Barriers can be personal or structural. Personal barriers include stigma, embarrassment, fear of judgement, not recognising the problem, and believing help will not work. Structural barriers include cost, distance and remoteness, long waiting times, services that are not culturally safe or youth-friendly, and not knowing what is available. These barriers cluster for disadvantaged groups, so the people who most need help often face the most obstacles to reaching it.
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