Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Flashcards
Health promotion
Directed at increasing well-being and self actualization.
Process and approach oriented.
Seeks to strengthen skills and capacities.
Ottawa Charter definition of health promotion
The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.
Disease Prevention
Disease or injury oriented.
Avoidance oriented.
Seeks to prevent occurrence the insults health and well-being.
Principles of health promotion
- Address health issues in contextual relationship between many determinants.
- Supports a holistic approach.
- Requires long term perspective.
- Involves working with other sectors.
- Multiple sources of knowledge.
5 Action Areas of the Ottawa Charter
- Build healthy public policy.
- Create supportive environments.
- Strengthen community action.
- Develop personal skills.
- Reorient health services
3 Strategies of the Ottawa Charter
- Advocate
- Mediate
- Enable
Empowerment
Important concept where people identify their health requirements, are involved in and take charge of strategies to improve their health. It is an active process.
What meaning will health promotion have in nursing?
- Embracing a specific set of values and attitudes.
- Create health promoting relationships
- Develop specific knowledge, skills and competencies.
Values that support health promotion
- Holistic perspective
- Expert knowledge of client
- Client autonomy and choice
- Genuine involvement and participation
- Mutuality
- Diversity is positively valued.
- Advocacy
- Equity and social justice
How to promote health in Nursing Practice
- Appreciate multiple realities and perspectives
- Work with clients so they define health and health needs for themselves
- Affirm and maximize strength
- Assist to develop relevant skills
- Identify access and resources
- Work with clients to identify structural barriers
- Collaborate with other service providers
- Foster a caring and collaborative environment and relationship
- Listen
Population health
Approach that aims to improve health of an entire population and health inequalities among population groups.
What does the population health model address?
- What action can be taken
- How? Strategies for actions
- With whom can action be taken?
- Why take action to improve health
What does population health look like?
- Vaccinations
- Smoke free parks and playgrounds
- Clean water and sanitation
- Community mobilization
- Food safety
- Seat belts and helmets
- Sidewalks
- Farmer’s markets
Core components of population health
- Complex and interrelated
- Focus on population vs individual
- Invest upstream
- Base decisions on evidence
- Apply multiple strategies to act on Determinants of Health
- Collaborate across levels and sectors
- Engage citizens
- Increase accountability for health outcomes
