Lecture 4: Introduction to premoting health Flashcards
What is a health promotion?
process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health
What are the 5 steps of the ottawa charter fir health promotion?`
- Strengthen community action: community engagement
- Develop personal skills
- Creating supportive environments
- Enable, mediate, advocate
- Reorient health services
What are the 3 levels of a medcal approach to promoting health?
PRIMARY
SECONDARY; detecting and treating pre-symptomatic disease
TERTIARY: Minimising effects of a disease
What is the behavioural change approach?
attitudes> behaviour>responsibility> choice
sucess if dependent on the individual
ignores social dterminants of health
What is the educational approach?
relies on individuals to make the right choice
Info>knowledge>skills
allows informed choices
What is the empowerment approach?
enables people to identify and address their concerns
healthier choices > healthier outcomes
recognises the sociall determinanats and recognises community champion roles
What is the social change apprach?
Change society not the individual public and political support
to prevent disease?
medical or preventitive
To ensure people are well informed and able to make healthy choices?
Beahaviourable and educational
To help people aquire the skills and confidence to take greater control over their health?
educational and empowerment
Change of policies and environments in order to facilitate healthy choices?
empowerment and social change
What are the problems in evaluating health intervention programs?
many take a long time
outcomes not easy to measure
different stakeholders and staff members may have idfferent goals
difficult to control external factors
Key principle in health promotion
empower people in communities to adopt healthier behaviour
restricting choice
has been shown to be the most effect intervention but least popular
Chemoprophylaxis
tends to protect wider community
