Health Promotion and behaviour Flashcards
Health promotion
enables people to increase control over their own health. It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions that are designed to benefit and protect individual people’s health and quality of life by addressing and preventing the root causes of ill health, not just focusing on treatment and cure
there are five approaches to health promotion
- Providing information
- Enhancing motivation
- Behavioural methods
- Health behaviour maintenance
- Combined programs
• Providing information
– Public Health Scotland (previously NHS Health Scotland)
leaflets posters etc
• Enhancing motivation
– Tailored content
– Framing: gain v loss
– Cognitive behavioural therapy
– Motivational interviewing
• Behavioural methods
– Training
– Reminders
– Reinforcers
• Health behaviour maintenance
– Lapsing
• Helping people deal with a lapse
• Reduction of relapse
• Combined health promotion programs
– Slimming clubs
What are the three targets of health promotion
- Primary prevention
- Secondary prevention
- Tertiary prevention
non modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease
- education
- social class
- gender
modifiable risk factors of cardiovascular disease
– smoking
– obesity
– sedentary lifestyle
– personality?
barriers to primary prevention
– Not fun! – Addictions – Motivation – Education – Social support – Cultural support
what is secondary prevention
– Blood pressure
– Cholesterol checks
Lifestyle modifications for the primary and secondary prevention of CVD
- choose wholegrain varieties of starchy food
- reduce their intake of sugar and food products containing refined sugars including fructose
- eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables per day
- eat at least 2 portions of fish per week, including a portion of oily fish
- eat at least 4 to 5 portions of unsalted nuts, seeds and legumes per week.
Tertiary prevention
– Personality is:
• ‘a person’s cognitive, affective, or behavioural tendencies that are fairly stable across time and situations’
Type A and B behaviour
type A
High competitiveness
High Time urgency
High hostility
