Lecture 1 Flashcards
1
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Health Promotion
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The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.
2
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Explanatory theory
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Describes the reason why a problem exists.
3
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Change theory
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Guides the development of health interventions.
4
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3 factors of behavioural ecology
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The individual, the social group, the community/society/culture.
5
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5 levels of influence within a social ecology of behaviour
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Individual, family/social group, community/population group, cultural/societal, political/economic/structural.
6
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WHO definition of health
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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
