Health Promotion Srtategies Flashcards
Health promotion strategies are limited to a specific health problem and to a specific set of behaviours.
False
Health promotion strategies are not limited to a specific health problem, nor to a specific set of behaviours.
WHO as a whole applies the principles of, and strategies for, health promotion to a variety of
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population groups, risk factors, diseases, and in
various settings.
Health promotion, and the associated efforts put
into
education, community development, policy, legislation and regulation, are equally valid for prevention of communicable diseases, injury and
violence, and mental problems, as they are for prevention of non communicable diseases.
Health promotion is process of
making it possible or people to take control over and improve their health
We can improve health when we use a combination of health promotion strategies.
true or false
true
health promotion strategies:
1-Build healthy public policy
2-Create supportive environments
3-Strengthening community action
4-Develop personal skills
5-Re-orient health services
Make public laws and rules that keep health in mind
Build healthy pulbic policy
Reviews of health promotion interventions addressing several issues and determinants identified the creation of healthy public policy as a key strategy.
Build healthy pubic policy:
-investment in government and social policy,
-The creation of legislation and regulations and Intersectoral and inter organizational partnerships and collaboration. In some cases,
-Reviews suggested that the creation of healthy public
-policy was the strategy for which the most evidence of effectiveness exists (e.g. legislation for road safety and social policy for income security and poverty reduction).
action relevant to what ?
action relevant to Build healthy pubic policy
Create safe and satisfying environments in which to live,
work and play.
Create supportive environments
Several reviews point to creating supportive conditions and environments as a strategy that is essential in order to ensure that other strategies are effective
Create supportive environments
implementing a variety of actions that represent supportive conditions at the structural ( policy), social (including community) and individual levels
Create supportive environments
found that successful youth health promotion strategies addressing high-risk behaviours must address the social and economic conditions that lead youth to be at high risk.
Create supportive environments
(Warren’s review)
Key to the success of interventions was making behavior change accessible, including the availability of instrumental supports such as condoms and psychosocial and emotional supports such as counseling, peer counseling, outreach, and life skills training.
Create supportive environments
(Warren, 1999)
Effective interventions not only aimed to change behavior among at-risk youth but also addressed societal perceptions of youth by targeting a variety of stakeholders, including parents, professionals, and community leaders
Create supportive environments
(Warren, 1999)
Encourage people to get involved and take action in decisions that affect their community’s health.
Strengthening community action
(Hills et al., 2004)
Effectiveness of Community Initiatives to Promote Health’ agreed that community intervention had had mixed results.
Strengthening community action
(Hills et al., 2004)
Although their impact in terms of behavior change has ranged from modest to disappointing, they have achieved success in terms of community and systems change
Strengthening community action
(Hills et al., 2004)
it was found that in preventing road injuries, educational activities alone were not very effective, but community programs that involved local participation and policy and legislative change actions have been very effective
(Svanstrom, 1999).
((Strengthening community action))
Svanstrom’s review of injury prevention and safety promotion interventions
targeting cardiovascular disease and diabetes prevention identified that although specific large-scale programs using multifaceted community-based interventions were often effective, they generally failed to produce substantial change over improvements occurring in the general population.
Strengthening community action
Garrard et al.’s review of health promotion interventions
Provide support, education and information to help people
build skills and make healthier choices.
Develop personal skills
(including the actions of health education, health communications, and training and skills development)
Develop personal skills
Central to the effectiveness of personal skills development is the need to also implement strategies that create structural- level conditions to support health and increase access to goods, products, and services.
True
Create services which change the focus from illness to
wellness.
Re-orient health services
