8. Reorienting Health Services Flashcards
Biomedical model
the absence of disease
Social gradient
association between an individual’s position on the social hierarchy and health
MC: The majority of health care spending in Canada is devoted to:
- Ensuring that residents do not develop future illnesses
- Curing, or attempting to cure, existing illnesses
- Educating the Canadian public about health and wellness
- Administering the health care system itself
Curing, or attempting to cure, existing illnesses
Despite position statements, espousing health promotion, disease treatment and acute care continue to represent the largest proportion of Canadian health care spending
The Settings Approach to Health
- from Ottawa Charter
- Includes external factors that impact people’s health
- The principles underlying the Health Promoting Hospital Movement provide an opportunity to engage a broad section of the community through patients and their family members as well as staff and personnel
-Ex: hosptial, school, community
T?F
In the settings approach to health, a setting is considered to be any public place that has the potential to positively or negatively impact an individual’s health behaviours
False
Within the settings approach to health, settings are defined broadly, and include any site in which we operate, including where we work, live, and participate in daily activities. Settings are not restricted to public places.
Capacity-building
is defined as the process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities, processes and resources that organizations and communities need to survive, adapt, and thrive in a fast-changing world
Health Promoting Schools Movement
- Based on the premise that health is a prerequisite for learning
- Schools are uniquely positioned to inspire action on many determinants of healthy child and adolescent development
- Includes university-based health promotion
