Community and Public Nutrition Flashcards
What is public health?
Improving the health of populations; initiatives that improve the health of the whole
What are the four tenets of public health practice?
- Health promotion
- Health protection
- Health surveillance
- Prevention of death, disease, injury
What is the aim of public health practice?
prevent disease by reducing risk factors that are related to disease and altering unhealthy behaviours that can lead to disease
What is heath promotion?
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health
What do dietitians in public health nutrition do? (6)
- Create supportive environments that improve access to
affordable and healthy food - Champion public health principles, actions and interventions
- Assess program effectiveness and success in terms of
population health - Create guidelines for healthy eating
- Advocate for nutrition related issues such as food labelling guidelines, breastfeeding promotion, school and preschool nutrition policies and guidelines, and a sustainable food system.
- Use strategies focused on the social determinants of health to build healthy communities
What are the 3 buckets of prevention?
- Traditional clinical prevention
- Innovative Clinical Prevention
- Total Population or Community-Wide Prevention
How do we make the healthy choice the easy choice?
We must change the food environments (physical, social, economic, policy) in which people live
Why is the socioecological model important in. nutrition educations?
Individuals often do not choose to a eat a poor quality diet, so actions directed solely at the individual is likely not enough to change dietary behaviour
What is public health serveillance?
the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice
What is the CCHS?
Canadian Community Health Survey
What does the CCHS do?
Collect national data on health and its determinants (ex. monitoring of difference in the prevalence of a disease across socioeconomic groups informs programs, policies, and research)
What are SDoH?
Social Determinants of Health
The SDoH determine _______,
Health inequities, which are the unfair and avoidable health difference between different groups of people
The SDoH are the ______ in which _______
conditions, people are born, grow, live and age
What is policy?
a consensus on the ideas that form the basis of action and hence underline decision-making
what does public health policy focus on?
The broader structural and social determinants of health
Public health policy is the ______
laws, rules, regulations, actions, and decisions implemented within society in order to promote wellness and ensure that specific health goals are met.
Canada needs a comprehensive approach to improve healthy diets that includes ____ _____ _____
strong governmental policy
What kinds of policies can governments use to change health behaviours?
From voluntary to mandatory
What the vision of the food policy for Canada?
All people in Canada are able to access a sufficient amount of safe, nutritious, and culturally diverse food.
– Canada’s food system is resilient and innovative, sustains our environment and supports our economy.
How does the healthy eating strategy aim to make it easier for Canadians to make the healthier choice? (3)
- Improve healthy eating information
- Improving nutrition quality of foods
- protecting vulnerable populations
Why is front-of-package nutrition labelling helpful?
It allows Canadaians to quickly and easily identify foods high in saturated fat, sugars, and sodium
How is advocacy an aspect of dietetic care in public health?
Dietitians have a responsibility to exert their power and knowledge to advocate for social changes required to overcome challenges to nutritional health for the public
What does public health advocacy mean?
To influence and obtain support for action on a public health issue
Common elements of public health advocacy
Focus on changing upstream factors like:
- policies
- laws
- institutional practices
- prices
- product standards
6 Advocacy strategies
- Direct meetings with decision-makers
- Serve on a policy working group
- Prepare a policy brief or position paper that presents evidence-base for desired changes
- Strategic use of news and social media to influence health public policies through shaping debate about the topic
- Use a Twitter profile that establishes your credibility
- Write to the Editor of a Newspaper
