EPHE MID KEY TERMs

Question 1

Health

Answer 1

A state of complete well-being, including physical, psychological, spiritual, social, intellectual, and environmental components.

Question 2

Health promotion

Answer 2

A process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. Moving beyond a focus on individual behaviour, it encourages the adoption of a wide range of social and environmental interventions.

Question 3

enabling factors

Answer 3

Factors that make it possible or easier for people or populations to change their behaviours; include individual physical capabilities and mental capacities, resources, living conditions, societal support, and accessible facilities, programs, and services as well as developing skills in addition to predisposing existing skills.

Question 4

predisposing factors

Answer 4

Factors that encourage or inhibit us from changing such as knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, values, self-efficacy, behavioural intentions, and existing skills.

Question 5

reinforcing factors

Answer 5

Factors that reinforce behaviour change. They include praise from family and friends, rewards from others, or encouragement and recognition for meeting goals. They also include healthy community policies such as smoke-free facilities and on-site workplace health and wellness programs.