Table 2.

Responses of the participants captured through Poll Everywhere

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