Health Promotion Flashcards
What is health promotion according to Green & Kreuter (2005)? (definition)
“…any combination of educational, political, regulatory and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups or communities.” (Green & Kreuter, 2005)
What is health promotion according to WHO (1984), PHAC (2008) and CHNC (2011)? (definition)
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.
What is health promotion according to UFV? (definition)
Any activity or program designed to improve social and environmental living conditions such that a person’s experience of well being is increased
What is health promotion according to CNA (2012)? (definition)
The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. It embraces actions directed not only at strengthening the skills and capabilities of individuals, but also at changing social, environmental, political and economic conditions to alleviate their impact on public and individual health. Canadian Nurses Association (CNA, 2012)
What are the fundamental concepts (building blocks) for a health promotion program?
Building blocks:
- Injury prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary)
- Disease prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary)
- Health protection
- Risk avoidance
- Risk reduction
- Health enhancement
- Harm reduction
Who is responsible for health? (two levels with examples)
- Agentic – voluntary, targets individuals. Eg. smoking cessation programs
- Structural – targets larger social problems. Eg. making it illegal to smoke in cars with children.
What are the fundamental concepts (building blocks) for a health promotion program?
Building blocks:
- Injury prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary)
- Disease prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary)
- Health protection
- Risk avoidance
- Risk reduction
- Health enhancement
- Harm reduction
What are examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary injury prevention?
Examples of primary injury prevention: bike helmet laws, worksafe BC
Examples of secondary injury prevention: head injury education for kids with head injuries from biking without a helmet.
Examples of tertiary injury prevention: providing rehab after a head injury has occurred.
Tertiary prevention = Looking at what to do for recovery or preventing things from worsening eg. wound care treatment, rehab, recovery
What are examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary disease prevention?
Primary disease prevention: anticipation and avoidance of immediate risk. Taking steps to prevent the occurrence of disease. Eg. immunization programs. (Eg. Gardasil for HPV prevention/cervical cancer prevention)
Secondary disease prevention: taking steps to stop the disease in its tracks. Eg. Screening for cervical cancer.
Tertiary disease prevention: They already have the disease (eg they have cervical cancer), and we are now treating it and taking steps to reduce the negative effects of the disease.
What is health protection?
Health maintenence by focussing on immediate risks. Eg someone who has had a stoke goes into a program at the Y, or someone who has a family history of a disease is taking steps to reduce their chances of getting it.
What is risk avoidance?
A disease prevention strategy used to avoid health problems and remain at low risk on the continuum.
What is risk reduction?
Disease prevention strategies used to reduce or alter health concerns, so that any disease is detected and treated early to prevent moving to a high risk level.
What is health enhancement?
health promotion strategy used to increase health and resiliency to promote optima health and well being. (eg. the friends program
hat is harm reduction?
Not forcing that person to make changes to their actions, but providing them with a safer way to do it. Eg. safe injection sites.
What assumptions, beliefs and values are important in health promotion?
- Build healthy public policy
- Strengthen capacity
- Explore our own assumptions and values, as well as the assumptions and values of our community.
Public health and health promotion are strength-based and focus on the strengths of a community, as well as realizing areas for improvement.
What skills would you need for health promotion? What would your practice look like?
- Leadership
- Assessment
- Assertiveness
- Open-mindedness
- Education/teaching
- Advocacy
What are the principles of health promotion?
Focus on whole population
Directed toward action on SDOH
Combines diverse and complimentary strategies
Aims for public participation
Health professionals have important role to enable health promotion
When was the public health movement in Canada?
1840’s-1920’s
When was health education the focus of public health?
1920’s-1970’s
When was health promotion the focus of public health?
1986-1994
When was there decreased support for health promotion?
1994-2007
What were some new elements of public health introduced in the 1980s?
New Public Health 1980’s- eg. Population health, Promotion, Health literacy
What happened in 1974 regarding public health in Canada?
1974: New Perspectives on the Health of Canadians (LaLonde)
what happened in 1978 regarding public health in Canada?
1978 Declaration of Alma Ata
What happened in 1986 regarding public health in Canada? (2 things)
1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
1986 Achieving Health for All: A Framework for Health Promotion (Epp)
What are some prerequisites for health laid out by the ottawa charter for Health Promotion? (9)
Peace Shelter Education Food Income Stable eco-system Sustainable Resources Socaia justice Equity
What are the three processes for health promotion practice according to the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion?
Advocate
Enable
Mediate
What are the health promotion actions laid out by the Ottawa Charter?
Build healthy public policy Create Supportive Environments Strengthen Community Action Develop Personal Skills Reorient Health Services
What does it mean to build healthy public policy? (as a health promotion action)
Ensuring that policy developed by all sectors contributes to health promoting conditions. Eg. banning smoking in cars with children.
What does it mean to create supportive environments? (as a health promotion action)
eg. creating smoke-free environments eg. no smoking on planes. We want to live in a healthy physical, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual environment. Ensuring positive impacts on the health of the people amidst the rapidly changing society.
what does it mean to strengthen community action? (as a health promotion action)
communities have the capacity to set priorities and make decisions around issues that affect their health.
What does it mean to develop personal skills? (as a health promotion action)
enabling people to have the knowledge and skills to meet life’s challenges so they can contribute to society.
What does it mean to reorient health services? (as a health promotion action)
we are moving in a direction of health promotion. We need to be respectful of the cultures/needs of societies. We are opening the sectors and finding out where the needs are in communities.
What happened in 1994 in Canada regarding public health?
Strategies for Health Promotion: Investing in the Health of Canadians
What happened in 1997 in Canada regarding public health?
Fourth Global Conference Jakarta Declaration
What happened in 2004 in Canada regarding public health?
Creation of PHAC
What happened in 2005 in Canada regarding public health?
Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World (6th)
What are the prerequisites for health according to the 1997 Jakarta Declaration on Health Promotion?
Ottawa Charter: Peace Shelter Education Food Income Stable eco-system Sustainable Resources Socaia justice Equity
Plus: Social security Social relations Empowerment of women Respect for human rights