Health Promotion (HP) Flashcards
What is the health promotion ??
is the process of enabling people to
increase control and improve their health.
Health promotion moves beyond a focus on what ??
{individual behavior} towards a
wide range of social and environmental interventions.
Health promotion moves beyond a focus on what ??
{individual behavior} towards a
wide range of social and environmental interventions.
The health promotion approach is based on what?
• individual behaviors and beliefs.
• family environments.
• community and work cultures.
• practices and policies.
• broader socioeconomic factors
True or False :
Health promotion is a set of actions to foster good health and
well-being.
True
• Health promotion involves action , mention thee of them ?
- what they could do to stay healthy.
- address the things in the community that (influence health)
- Prevention of the development of risk factors
Give me two Examples of effective health promotion activities for
child and family health?
1.Promoting breastfeeding
2. Promoting child and family nutrition.
3. Sexually Transmitted Diseases prevention and education.
4. Injury prevention
5.Promoting physical activity.
6.Smoking cessation programs.
What is the five strategies that set out for Health Promotion ?
1.build healthy public policy.**
2.create supportive environments.
3.strengthen community action.
4.develop personal skills.
5.reorient health services.
According to five strategies that set out for Health Promotion what is the TOP PRIORITY fore this five strategies?
Develop healthy public policy
How can i create supportive enviroment ?
- Addressing the protection and conservation of the natural
environment
2.Ensure healthy working and living conditions that are safe - Conducting systematic assessments of the health impacts of rapidly changing environments
- Promoting research studies to detect environmental
hazards
Health promotion depends on concrete & effective community action.
The community must share in:
• Setting priorities
• Making decisions
• Planning strategies
• Implementing these strategies
I can enhanced -Strengthen community action by three thing . Mention it
• Empowering the community
• Create ownership
• Control of their actions & efforts.
Strengthen community action requires three thing . Mention two
• Inis requtres.
• Continuous access to information.
• Learning opportunities for health.
• Funding support.
What is the Health promotion strategies directed towards individuals ?
- Increase individual awareness of disease and disability
- Changing lifestyles to healthy ones.
- Encourage individuals to have check-ups
4.Early seeking for medical advice - Compliance with physician instruction cahadilla
Reorient health services
- Health promotion requires reorientation of health systems
from tertiary (curative strategies) to primary and secondary
prevention models. - This reorientation is often resisted by doctors and hospital pharmaceutical companies those who adopt the “find it and fix it” approach.
- Encourage health service providers to build opportunities for health education settings in primary and secondary