mM4 HEALTH PROMOTION Flashcards
is the process of enabling people to INCREASE CONTROL over, and to improve their health.
HEALTH PROMOTION
Good health is a major resource for social, economic, and personal development and an important dimension of quality of life. Political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioral and biological factors can all favor health or be harmful to it. Health promotion actions aim at making these conditions favorable through advocacy for health.
ADVOCATE
a combination of individual and social actions designed to gain political commitment, policy support, social acceptance and
systems support for a particular health goal or program
ADVOCACY FOR HEALTH
Health promotion focuses on achieving equity in health. Health promotion action aims at reducing differences in current health status and ensuring equal opportunities and resources to enable all people to achieve their fullest health potential. This includes a secure foundation in a supportive environment, access to information, life skills and opportunities for making healthy choices. People cannot achieve their fullest health potential unless they are able to take control of those things,
which determine their health. This must apply equally to women and men.
ENABLE
In health promotion, “____” means to TAKE ACTION in partnership with individuals or groups to EMPOWER them through the mobilization of human and material resources in promotion and protection of their health.
ENABLING
The prerequisites and prospects for health cannot be ensured by the health sector alone. More importantly, health promotion demands coordinated action by all concerned: by governments,
by health and other social and economic sectors, by non-governmental and voluntary organizations, by local authorities, by industry and by the media. People in all walks of life are involved as individuals, families and communities. Profession al and social groups and health personnel have a major responsibility to mediate between differing interests in society for the pursuit of health.
MEDIATE
is a POSITIVE CONCEPT emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities
HEALTH
differs from health promotion because it focuses on specific efforts aimed at REDUCING THE DEVELOPMENT AND SEVERITY OF CHRONIC DISEASES and other morbidities.
DISEASE PREVENTION
is related to health promotion and disease prevention. It is described as the ATTITUDES AND ACTIVE DECISIONS made by an individual that contribute to positive health behaviors and outcomes.
WELLNESS
Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these basic prerequisites:
ADVOCATE
ENABLE
MEDIATE
comprises of consciously CONSTRUCTED OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health (Health Promotion Glossary, WHO, 1998).
HEALTH EDUCATION
Capacity of an individual to obtain, interpret, and UNDERSTAND BASIC HEALTH INFORMATION AND SERVICES and the competence to use such information and services in ways that are health enhancing is termed as
HEALTH LITERACY
comprises the BODY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE AGENT, host and environmental factors relating to the disease process. It includes the initial forces or factors which initiated the process in the environment or elsewhere through the resulting changes which took place in man, until continuing equilibrium is reached, or defect, disability, or death occurs.
NATURE OF HISTORY OF DISEASE
actions aimed at ERADICATING, ELIMINATING, OR MINIMIZING THE IMPACT OF DISEASE AND DISABILITY, or if none of these are feasible, retarding the progress of the disease and disability
PREVENTION
consists of actions and measures that INHIBIT THE EMERGENCE OF RISK FACTORS in the form of environmental, economic, social, and behavioral conditions and cultural patterns of living.
PRIMORDIAL
REDUCTION in the incidence, prevalence, morbidity or mortality of an infectious disease to a locally acceptable level
CONTROL
REDUCTION to ZERO of the incidence of disease or infection in a defined geographical area
ELIMINATION
PERMANENT REDUCTION to zero of the worldwide incidence of infection
ERADICATION
individual & mass education
PRIMORDIAL
health promotion & specific protection
PRIMARY
specific interventions: early diagnosis & treatment
SECONDARY
disability limitation & rehabilitation
TERTIARY
is a PROMISING STRATEGY to tackle multiple health problems that affect human populations and their surroundings. Based on an expanded concept of the health-disease process and its determinants, it promotes an articulation of technical and popular forms of knowledge, as well as the mobilization of institutional and community-based resources, public and private, to address and resolve them.
HEALTH PROMOTION
The ________ have established the concepts, principles, and action areas, and located health promotion within the wider context of globalization (Ottawa 1986 and Bangkok 2005).
WHO GLOBAL HEALTH PROMOTION CONFERENCES
healthy public policy making
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA 1988
creation of supportive environments
SUNDSVALL, SWEDEN1991
8th Global Conference on Health Promotion reviewed the experiences in engaging in the Health in All Policies approach and established guidance for concrete action in countries at all levels of development.
HELSINKI 2013
They have considered capacity building for health promotion and its role in addressing the determinants of health
JAKARTA, INDONESIA 1997 & MEXICO 2000