Health Promotion Flashcards
What are determinants of health?
A range of factors that have a powerful and cumulative effect on the heatlh of populations, communitiies, and individuals
What do the determinants of health relate to?
- The physical environment
- The social and economic environment
- Our individual genetics, characteristics, and behaviours
How does WHO define determinants of health?
‘The context of peoples lives determine their heatlh, and so blaming individuals for having poor health, or crediting them for good health, is inappropriate. Individuals are unlikely to be able to directly control many of the determinants of health.’
What was the prominent concept of health promotion from 1910-1940?
Pubic health
What was public health from 1910-1940 focused on?
Reform of physical environment to stop communicable disease, e.g. improvements in santitation
What was the prominent concept in health promotion in 1940-1950?
Health education
What was health education from 1940-1950?
Targeted individuals health behaviour;
- Family planning
- Immunisation
- Alcohol
- STDs
How does health promotion differ from health education?
It is a broad approach, including political and social factors
Who has recognised health promotion as an important issue globally?
WHO
What did the Decleration of Alma Ata say regarding health?
Health was a fundamental right, and inequalities in heatlh are unacceptable
What did the Decleration of Alma Ata say that improvements in health require?
Involvement of other sectors, e.g. education, agriculture, industry
What did the Decleration of Alma Ata outline?
Global strategy called ‘Health for All’ by 2000
How is health promotion defined?
The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. Health is a positive concept, emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond health lifestyles to well-being
What are the principles of health promotion?
- Empowering
- Participatory
- Holistic
- Intersectoral
- Equitable
- Sustainable
- Multi-strategy
What is meant by empowering in health promotion?
Enabling individuals and communities to assume more power over the determinants of heatlh
What is meant by participatory in health promotion?
Involving all concerned at all stages of the process
What is meant by holistic in health promotion?
Fostering physical, mental, social, and spiritual heatlh
What is meant by intersectoral in health promotion?
Involving the collaboration of agencies from relevant sectors
What is meant by equitable in health promotion?
Guided by a concen for equity and social justice
What is meant by sustainable in health promotion?
Bringing about changes that individuals and communities can maintain once funding has ended
What is meant by multi-strategy in health promotion?
Uses a variety of approaches, including;
- Policy development
- Organsiational change
- Community development
- Legislation
Both top-down and bottom-up strategies
What is the difference between health promotion and pubic health?
Pubic health has tended to place more emphasis on goals, and is more population focused. Pubic health = Health Promotion + Health protection
Health promotion has placed more value on means of achieving the goals. Health promotion = health education x health public policy
What is the purpose of Public Health England (PHE)?
To protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities
What does Public Health England bring together?
Previous agencies;
- Health Protection Agency
- Regional Public Health Directorates
- National Screening Committee
- Public Health Observatories
What is the aim of PHE?
- To empower local communities
- Enable professional freedoms
- Unleash new evidence on public health
What are the categories of sociological critiques of public health?
- Structual critiques
- Surveillance critiques
- Consumption critiques
What are the structural critiques of public health?
- Material conditions that give rise to ill health are often marginalised
- Focus on individual responsibility
What is meant by public health focusing on individual responsibility?
Still neglects overriding social, political, and economic environment, and doesn’t take constraints into account