Which of the following is an example of Reorient Health Services practice?

• A. Doctors focusing a discussion around healthy eating rather than just medication and surgery to reduce CVD
• B. Ambulance workers providing road safety sessions for secondary school students
• C. An immunisation strategy involving media, doctors, schools and parents
• D. A community health centre running cooking classes

Answer: (C)

Reorient health services means shifting how the health system works to prioritise prevention and health promotion, and coordinating across different sectors to deliver preventive interventions. An immunisation strategy that involves media, doctors, schools and parents demonstrates this shift: it reorganises roles and partnerships so vaccination is promoted, delivered, and supported across multiple settings, aligning resources, information, and access to prevent disease rather than only treating it after it occurs.

Other options touch on health promotion or preventive work, but they don’t illustrate a system-wide change in how services are organized to prevent illness. Focusing a clinician’s discussion on healthy eating is valuable care, but it’s a change in individual practice rather than how services are structured. Ambulance staff delivering road-safety sessions is outreach and education, not a reconfiguration of service delivery. A community health centre running cooking classes is a beneficial program, but again it’s a service activity rather than reorienting the broader health system toward preventive action across sectors.