health promotion Flashcards
5 principles of the Canada Health Act (1984)
Publicly administered, Comprehensive, Universal, Portable, Accessible
The Lalone Report (1974)
Suggested 4 determinants of health: Environment, lifestyle, biology, and the health care system. Revolutionary, recognized globally, and shifting thinking towards health promotion
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
Movement towards a new public health
Remains key policy document of international health movement
Ottawa charter for HP: 5 key strategies for health promotion
Strengthening Community Action
Building Healthy Public Policy
Creating Supportive Environments
Developing Personal Skills
Reorienting Health Services
An Indigenous understanding of health includes
The family and community and focuses on a balance between the body, mind, emotion, and spirit and include nature as an integral component.
Three key approaches to health (Labonte):
Biomedical approach (currently, reactive)
Socio-environmental approach (upstream)
Behavioral lifestyle approach (does not include the context, downstream)
The five principles of Primary Health Care:
Accessibility,
Public participation,
Health promotion,
Appropriate technology
Intersectoral collaboration or co-operation
Population health promotion model identifies and takes actions on the _____ of health issues, which are upstream approaches.
ROOT cause
Population Health Promotion Model. Is a cube shaped model combining the Ottawa charter HP strategies with determinants of health
Who should we act with (at what level)?
what should we target (which determinant of health)? How should we act? (which Ottawa Charter HP strategy)
Why should we act? (Values, research, assumptions, etc..)
Social marketing uses traditional marketing concepts to…
Change social behaviours. this is a health interventon
Upstream vs downstream approaches to health promotion
Upstream approach: macro view of health (the determinants of health)
Downstream approach: Individual level treatment (micro; medical view)
5 general determinants of health
Biology & Genetics
Individual Behaviour
Social Environment
Physical Environment
Health Services
