Class 4 Flashcards
The Ottawa Charter (1986)
Build Healthy Public policy
Reoriented health Services
Create supportive environment
Strengthen community actions
3 Action Pillars
Enable: strategie ensure equal opportunity to archieve health
Mediate: between diff. sector of society
Advocate: aim to make social and others conditions favorable for health
Health promotion
is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
The New (Ecological) Public Health
- Tackling infectious disease (protection)
- Tackling chronic disease (+surveillance)
- Civilization diseases (prevention)
- Health promotion(+promotion)
Health promotion is
Health education x healthy public policy
Historical approaches to health promotion
Biomedical: focus on physiological risk factors
Behavioural: focus on behavioural risk factors
Socio-ecological: socio-environmental risk factors
Keys concepts of health promotion
Empowerment
Health literacy
Quality of life
Jakarta declaration
Lead health promotion into the 21st
Population health promotion
CUBE: Social determinants of health Levels of action Action strategies Foundations
Healthy cities/communities principles
- community participation
- multi-intersectoral partnerships
- political commitment of local authorities
- implementation of healthy public policies
- asset-based community development
Upstream approach
focused on policy interventions, adressing and taking action on the root causes.
Midstream approach
Focus on behaviour change and health education.
Downstream approach
Focus on individual tx and cure.
Difference between Health education and health promotion
- Health education is a component of health promotion
- Health education is more individually focused
- Health promotion is context-dependant, mainly community and population focused.
Behavioral approach to health promotion eg.:
social marketing (participaction), health education, behavior modification.