CORE 1

Question 1

What is health?

Answer 1

Health relates to an individuals physical and mental wellbeing, and all aspects of wellness.

Question 2

What are the dimensions of health?

Answer 2

Social, Emotional, Physical, Cognitive, Spiritual

Question 3

How is health relative and dynamic?

Answer 3

Relative- Influencing by individual perception, past experiences, knowledge etc
Dynamic- health changes over time, aging, fluid always changing through life

Question 4

What are factors that influence the perceptions of health?

Answer 4

Gender, environment, health companies, advertising, level of education, peers, community, culture, socioeconomic status, geographical location

Question 5

How is health a social construct?

Answer 5

Health is shaped and contructed by society and responsibility for health falls not upon just the individual but society as a whole.

Question 6

What influences our perceptions of health? (the determinants of health)

Answer 6

Socio-economic- money, employment, education, family wealth, location, income, job

Socio-cultural- cultural values, religion, identity, beliefs, spirituality, nationality, ethnicity

Environmental- Politics, geographical, natural environment, location, access to facilities

Question 7

What is the current status for the health of today’s young people?

Answer 7

Improving, but definetly not perfect

Question 8

What are protective behaviours?

Answer 8

Protecting yourself from har, in terms of health

-Regular physical activity (overweight obese), following laws (road safety), Gp checkups and protected sex ( sex health)

Question 9

What are risk factors?

Answer 9

Behaviours that put health at risk

Drinking drugs, inactivity, non-monogamy etc

Question 10

What are modifiable and non-modifiable determinants of health?

Answer 10

Modifiable- can be changed (Efficacy, Information, socioeconomic advantage, attitude, good choices)

Non-modifiable- can’t be changed (genetics, age, biological sex, ethnicity, environmental factors)

Question 11

What is health promotion?

Answer 11

The process of preventing ill health and advancing the health of individuals and the community through planned interventions

Question 12

Who has responsibility for health promotion?

Answer 12

Individuals, Community groups, NOn government organisations, governments, International organisations (WHO)

Question 13

What are the different approaches to health promotion?

Answer 13

LIfestyle approach, preventative medical approach, public health approach

Question 14

What is the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 14

Outlines five areas of action to achieve health for all. It is based on the understanding that health is socially determined and encourage health professionals and governments to educate people about health and change environments

Question 15

What does the Ottawa charter consist of?

Answer 15

5 action areas, 3 strategies

Question 16

What are the five action areas of the OC?

Answer 16

Building health public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, reorientating health services

Question 17

What is, ‘Building health public policy?’

Answer 17

Health departments and governments, legislative, regulatory, organisational taxation etc

-seatbelt, helmet laws, smoking restrictions

Question 18

What is ‘Creating supportive environments’?

Answer 18

Increasing the ability of peple to make healthy choices when in environments such as schools, workplaces

-Restricting junk food ads, healthy canteens, workplaces with gyms

Question 19

What is ‘Strengthening community action”?

Answer 19

Collective actions of the community to improve their health.

-Community fun runs, initiatives, RUOK day, Aboriginal medicare services

Question 20

What is ‘Reorientating health services’?

Answer 20

Aims to make health systems more focused on communities
Strenghten protective factors reducing risk factors, improve health determinants
-Free mammogram, school based vaccinations, bowel screening

Question 21

What is ‘Developing personal skills?’

Answer 21

Supports personal and social development- information and life skills to make positive health choices
-Online health education

Question 22

What are the three strategies of the OC?

Answer 22

Advocate, mediate, enable

Question 23

What is ‘Advocate’?

Answer 23

Individual and social actions- political committment, support and social systems

Question 24

What is ‘Mediate’?

Answer 24

Individual communities, public and private sectors

Question 25

What is ‘Enable’?

Answer 25

Partnership with individuals- empowerment- giving them the skills to make choices

Question 26

What are the principles of social justice?

Answer 26

Equity- same opportunities, not the same resources
Diversity-acknowledging people for who they are and ensuring that their needs are met
Supportive Environments-enabling people to make healthy decisions