L13: Keeping Yourself And Others Healthy

Question 1

Health education vs Health promotion

Answer 1

Health education: Strategies for promoting the most effective ways of TEACHING healthy living

Health promotion: ENABLING people to increase control over and improve their health

Question 2

Ottowa charter and Bangkok charter

Answer 2

Ottowa:

• Build healthy public policy
• Strengthen community action
• Develop personal health skills

Bangkok charter:

• Advocate
• Invest
• Build
• Regulate and legislate
• Partner and build alliances

Question 3

4 key commitments

Answer 3

1. Central to Global Development Agenda
2. Core responsibility of government
3. Key focus of communities
4. Requirement for good corporate practice

Question 4

Key components of health promotion

Answer 4

1. Empowerment: giving people power over health choices / lives
   - Knowledge (not sufficient: cigarette warning, not needed: seat belt legislation)
   - Opportunities (alternatives must be accessible)
   —> ***Affordability, Access, Information, Feasibility
   - Policies
   - Legislation (tobacco control, food regulations, water standards)
2. Resources

Question 5

Community development approach

Answer 5

Alternative to “Health lifestyle approach”

User defined, initiated, benefiting

Question 6

Goals of health promotion approaches

Answer 6

1. Improve choices + encourage people to opt for healthier choices (may need incentives)
2. Reduce
   - premature mortality
   - avoidable morbidity
   - disability
3. Compress morbidity (lifetime illness compressed into shorter period before death —> healthcare costs and patient health overall will be improved)
4. Health becoming a resource to life rather than barrier to life

Question 7

HP and doctors

Answer 7

• Prevention rather than cure
• Empowerment at individual, community level through:
  —> individual patient care
  —> community actions
  —> policies

Question 8

Keeping yourself healthy

Answer 8

• 5 fruits and vegetables everyday
• avoid meat
• moderate exercise 30mins/day + intensive exercise 40 mins 3 times/week
• do not smoke
• maintain capacity to determine control over life
• laugh