Health Promotion Flashcards
1
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Approaches to health promotion
A
Prevention Education Behaviour Empowerment Social change
2
Q
Health promotion definition
A
The process of enabling someone to increase control over and improve their own health.
3
Q
Dilemmas
A
Victim Blaming
Evaluation and effectiveness
Inaccessibility of info
4
Q
Problems
A
Time consuming
Often controversial
Rigorous evaluation needed
Long interval between preventative strategy and measurable improvement
5
Q
Opportunity Cost
A
Must be low!
Benefit of intervention vs the cost.
6
Q
What is health influenced by?
A
Social and physical environment
Health services
Behaviour and lifestyle
Human biology
