Health Promotion Flashcards
What is promotion?
Early interventions to promote health behaviors, wishful outcome and that focuses onenhancing protection factors
- Before a problem has happened
How can promotion help?
Either directly , behavior, or indirectly, mechanisms
- Closely related to policy making and social engineering
What are the effects of promotion?
- Longer lives
- Reduced number of premature deaths
- Increased number of years with health and well-being
- Decreased cost of health care
What groups does health promotion wanna target?
- Often health habits
- Targets also depends on group, problem and level of intervention
- Children and adolescents are often the focus
What are some common health promoting habits that we wanna focus on?
-Exercise
-Healthy diets
- Accident prevention
- Vaccinations and screening
- Sun safety
- Rest, renewaland savoring
Why is exercise good for you?
- Improves physical and psychological well being
- Improves cognitive functions
- Any kind of exercise is good for you
Especially for middle aged adults and older
Why is it difficult for us to exercise?
- Alot of emotions involved
-Takes time, effort and motivation - Safety-environment
- We often exercise to look rather than to feel good
How can we promote exercise?
- Often through social engineering
- Bike lanes in cities
- Easy access to gyms
- Educate on how to exercise at home
- Exercise playgrounds for children
- Events in the community youre in
- Support groups
What is a healthy diet?
Diets high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, peas and ebans, poultry and fish is considered healthy
- Some individual differences
-Healthy diet does not mean super strict or absence of unhealthy food at times
Important to keep a balance and something you can adhere to
Why is it hard to maintain a healthy diet?
- Often people make it too strict or absence of unhealthy food
- Lower calorie intake increases risks of binging
- Loose of freedom?
Can you promote healthy diets?
- Its difficult but possible
- Increase the availability of healthy foods in the world
- Have healthy diets in school
- Education
- Nudging
Why is it important to get adequate sleep?
- Decreases heart rate and muscle tone
- Restoration
-Vital for immune system
What affects health habits?
- Demographic factors
Education, SES, support and stress - Lifespan
- Personal control
- Social influencing
What are some examples of health-promoting interventions?
- Family based interventions
- Aimed at target behaviors
- Enhances self control or self efficacy
- Community based interventions
What is risk assessment in health psychology?
- Identify and evaluate potentional risk factors for peoples health and well being
Modifiable and non-modifiable factors - Use intervention, promotion or prevention to help them, the goal
Should be effective - Used for developing policies, social engineering
- Involves subjective and objective type of measurements
QoL questionnaires, BMI, body weight, bloodpressure
