8.1 Fundamentals of Health Promotion Programming

Question 1

Health Promotion

Answer 1

• Focused on prevention, giving people the tools and knowledge to make healthy choices
• Health education is programs/activities conducted to improve health literacy

Question 2

Health Education

Answer 2

• Social science used to promote health and prevent disease/disability/premature death.
• Driven through voluntary behavior change activities
• Helps with mortality rates in communities

Question 3

Types of Health Education

Answer 3

Sexual Health
- Maternal health
- STI’s

Environmental Health
- Pollution/environmental waste

Mental Health Education

Workplace Health
- OSHA, HIPPA

School Health
- Physical education, sexual health classes, nutritional lunches/breakfast

Nutritional Health
- Balanced diet with protein, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, healthy foods

Question 4

STI’s

Answer 4

• 1 in 5 people have had or have an STI
• Half of all new STI’s were among ages 15-24
• Get screened every year

Question 5

Dangerous Substance List

Answer 5

• Arsenic
• Lead
• Mercury
• Vinyl Chloride
• Polychlorinated Biphenyls

Question 6

Health Promotion

Answer 6

• Enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health

Aspects
- Living with the disease
- Technologies of care
- Potential for self-care
- Family caregiver
- Psycho-spiritual dimension

Question 7

Health Education vs Health Promotion

Answer 7

Health Education
- Providing then with education on how to improve their behavior and prevent diseases

Health Promotion
- Giving them resources for how to manage or prevent disease (showing them how to do it)

Question 8

Health Promotion Components

Answer 8

Advocate

• Healthy eating
  Health education specialist hosting a low-cost healthy cooking demonstration
• Physical activity
  Health educational specialist explaining a presentation on exercises to do in the office or healthy yoga poses

Facilitate/Enable (allowing all people to achieve health equity)

• Cultural Competence
  Health education specialist creates program to help spanish speaking pregnant women with prenatal care
  Make home visits to African American families with no transportation for diabetes screenings
• Health Literacy
  Advocating for individuals who have low health literacy levels achieve a certain level of knowledge to make healthier choices

Mediate/Liaison (collaboration across all sectors)

• Public Sectors (local health departments)
• Private Sectors (hospitals and clinics)

Question 9

Low Health Literacy

Answer 9

• More likely to visit ER
• Have longer hospital stays
• Less likely to follow treatment plans
• Have higher mortality rates

Question 10

CDC Foundation

Answer 10

• Liaison
• Work with CDC and state governments in local health department
• Send people to health department to help
• In covid they hired a lot of people to help with contact tracing

Question 11

Implementation of Health Promotion Programs

Answer 11

1 - Determine purpose and scope of needs assessment
2 - Gather Data
3 - Analyze Data
4 - Identify risk factors linked to health problem
5 - Identify the problem focus
6 - Validate the prioritized need
7 - Set appropriate goals and objectives
8 - Create an intervention
9 - Implement the intervention
10 - Evaluate the results