Health Promotion Flashcards

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Public Health

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  • Improving the population health
  • Making people healthy
  • Saving lives - prevent premature death
  • Life expectancy
  • preventing diseases, prolonging life and promoting health, through the organised efforts of society
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Who is responsible for public health?

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  • All sectors of the society
  • Department of Health
  • Stakeholders
  • Government
  • Private sector
  • Non-government organisations
  • International organisations
  • community
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Health Promotion

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  • Process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health
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According to WHO what is health?

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  • Physical
  • Social
  • Mental
  • Wellbeing
  • Not just absence of disease and infimary
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Health Determinants

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  • Person centred care - tailored to the patient
  • Holistic approaches - concider everything
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Complex interactions

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  • Individual
  • Lifestyles and behaviour
  • Physical, social and economic environment
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Aim of The Ottawa Charter

November 1986

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International Conference aimed at health for All by 2000

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5 Action areas of The Ottawa Charter

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  • Protect health, enable healthy choices
  • Healthy choices related to where people live, work, learn and play
  • Community efforts to improve health
  • Addressing health inequality
  • Information, education and life skills to make good healthy choice
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3 Strategies The Ottawa Charter

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  • Advocate by putting systems in
    place
  • Mediate: individuals and organisations
  • Enable: work in partnerships and empower individuals
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How do you achieve public health?

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  • Protection - Face mask & antibactierial gel and ventilation & hospital with testing
  • Prevention - Covid vaccine and healthcare screening
  • Promotion - Exercise and eating healthy (types of exercise for cardiovascular
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Governance

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  • Having systems in place to ensure accessibility and saftey
  • SOPs
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Advocacy

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  • Encourage people to do certain things
  • Asthmatic enabling them to get flu vaccine
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Capacity

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  • Funding the study of pharmacists so more people can get the care thats required
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