Approaches the Health Promotion + SDoH in Dietetic Practice

Question 1

How should health be viewed?

Answer 1

It should be viewed positively as an everyday resource that everyone can benefit from, not as the object of living

Question 2

Who is responsible for health promotion?

Answer 2

Health sector plays a role but most stuff happens outside of the health sector for example:
* social services
* housing sector
* child services
* etc/

Question 3

What are the action strategies of the Ottawa charter?

Answer 3

• develop personal skills
• Create supportive environments
• strengthen community action
• build healthy public policy
• reorient health services

Question 4

What factor has a huge impact in health?

Answer 4

Where you live geographically

Question 5

What are the environments that need to be supported for health?

Answer 5

• physical environment: availability and access to food
• communication environment: marketing
• context for behaviour

Question 6

What is the target to support environmental change?

Answer 6

Community
* What we do is always in context which can be done through community action

Question 7

How can the community be strengthened?

Answer 7

Community as a:
* setting: culmination of individual change
* target: systematic changes to create health environments
* resource: increased community capacity
* agent: “start where the people are”

Question 8

How to build healthy communities

Answer 8

• target community environments
• leverage resources and rely on those already in the community
• hire community coordinators
• invest seed money