Health Promotion and Concept of Health

Question 1

What is the holistic definition of health?

Answer 1

health is holistically defines as a state of complete physical, cognitive, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity within a cultural context

Question 2

What is public health?

Answer 2

Public health helps people that are healthy and protects them from threats to their health in all sorts of ways. A public health approach to health recognises effect of an individuals interaction with their own social environment

Question 3

What is inequality?

Answer 3

refers largely to unavoidable differences between groups

Question 4

What is inequity?

Answer 4

that which is avoidable, unfair or unjust

Question 5

What is health promotion?

Answer 5

A range of activities and interventions to enable people to take greater control over their health and improve it. Activities can be directed at individuals, families, communities or whole populations.

Question 6

What is health education?

Answer 6

Involves activities to facilitate health related learning and behaviour change.

Question 7

What is a public health approach?

Answer 7

Involves activities based on a biomedical (focus on physical disease) understanding of health, focused on the identification of health related needs and population based actions such as immunisation and screening.

Question 8

What is global health?

Answer 8

Worldwide improvement of health, reduction of inequalities and protection against global threats that disregard national borders.

Question 9

What is the Ottawa charter?

Answer 9

It highlights conditions and resources required for health and identifies key actions and strategies for achieving WHOs health for all vision.

Question 10

Name 5 approaches to health promotion

Answer 10

medical or preventative
behaviour change
education
empowerment
social change

Question 11

Whta is a holistic model?

Answer 11

A holistic model acknowledges different dimensions of health and how they interact with each other

Question 12

What is physical health?

Answer 12

Not being ill

fitness

Question 13

What is mental health?

Answer 13

Belief in ones own worth a positive sense of purpose. The ability to think clearly and coherently.

Question 14

What is emotional health?

Answer 14

The ability to feel, recognise and give a voice to feelings such as fear and joy. The ability to develop relationships.

Question 15

What is social health?

Answer 15

the sense of having support from family and friends. being involved in activities with other people.

Question 16

What is spiritual health?

Answer 16

the ability to put into practice moral or religious principles or beliefs. Feeling of having a higher purpose in life

Question 17

What is sexual health?

Answer 17

The acceptance and ability to achieve a satisfactory expression of ones sexuality. A positive, respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relations free of coercion, discrimination and violence

Question 18

What does well being mean?

Answer 18

what makes a good life

Question 19

What is disease?

Answer 19

Means uneasiness or discomfort. Existence of some abnormality capable of being detected e.g cancer, hypertension. Can be exogenous (outside the body) 
or endogenous (inside the body

Question 20

What is illness?

Answer 20

This is subjective, feelings or symptoms such as aches and pains. Disease normally causes illness. Disease can be diagnosed without any feelings of illness. Illness and disease coincide if symptoms and investigations diagnose disease.