Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Define Old Public Health

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Old public health are policies and practices brought by the govt that focus on hygiene and the environment to mostly prevent infectious diseases

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Policies and Practices related to Old Public Health

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  • Governement funded sewage systems
  • Quarantine laws
  • Elimination of slums
  • Mass vaccination programs
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Define the Biomedial Approach to Health

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Focuses on the symptoms of a disease on illness and uses medical professionals to diagnose, treat and cure the disease.

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How does the biomedical approach to health treat CVD

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  • Bypass surgery for blocked coronary arteries
  • Stents to push open coronary arteries
  • “clot-busting” drugs
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How does the biomedical approach to health treat Cancer

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  • Surgery to remove tumour
  • MRI for earlier detection
  • Chemotherapy to reduce tumour
  • Radiation to kill cancer cells
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Advantages to the biomedical model of health

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  • Enables illnesses and conditons to be effectively treated
  • Extends life expectancy
  • Improves quality of life & HALE
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Disadvantages to the biomedical model of health

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  • Costly - to both govt and patients
  • Doesnt promote good h&w
  • not every condition can be treated (e.g. genetic)
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Define the Social Model of Health

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Recognises that improvements in h&w can only be achieved by directing effort towards addressing the physical, socialcultural, and political environments of health that have an impact on individuals and population groups

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Principles of the social model of health

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  • Addresses the broader determinants of health
  • Empowers individuals and communities
  • Acts to reduce social inequities
  • Acts on enable access to healthcare
  • Involves inter-sectorial collaboration
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Advantages of the social model of health

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  • Promotes good h&w
  • Less expensive than biomed approach
  • Focuses on vulnerable population groups
  • Shared responsibility of h&w
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Disadvantages of the social model of health

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  • Not every condition can be treated
  • Doesn’t promote the development of technology
  • Doesn’t address individuals h&w
  • Health promotion can be ignored
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Define health promotion

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The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.

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3 Strategies of health promotion

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  • Advocate
  • Enable
  • Mediate
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5 action areas of the ottawa charter

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  • Build healthy public policy
  • Create supportive environments
  • Strengthen community action
  • Develop personal skills
  • Reorient Health services
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