Module 1 Flashcards
is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health
Health Promotion
Why is Health promotion important?
Improves health status
enhances the quality of life
reduces cost on medical treatment
WHO definition on health promotion was ratified during the?
First International Conference on Health Promotion in Ottawa, Canada
What are the five priority action areas in health promotion?
1: Building healthy public policy
2. Creative Supportive Environments for Health
3. Strengthen Community Action for health
4. Develop Personal Skills
5. Re-Orient Health Services
is a document or tool used by different organisations to improve health in the community.
Ottawa Charter for health promotion
What are the two parts in Ottawa Charter that work side by side to improve health?
Three basic strategies
The 5 priority or action areas
What are the. three basic strategies?
advocacy
mediating
enabling
Involves speaking up for groups to gain support
for a particular issue or concern.
some groups are able to advocate (“stick up for themselves”), other groups may need people to speak on their behalf.
Advocacy
What are the examples of advocacy?
Mass Media Campaigns
Lobbying politicians
Organizing pressure groups
Many groups in the community have their own interests and ideas on a particular health issue. What can occur?
conflict
To resolve the conflict ______ may be needed.
reconciliation
This is where intersectorial collaboration takes place.
Mediating
Health promotion requires the coordinated action by all levels of government, the health
sector, non-government organisations, industry and media
Mediating
What are the prerequisites or basic conditions and resources that must be available if any gains in health occur?
Peace
Education
Shelter
Food
Income
STABLE ECOSYSTEM
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY
SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES
defined health promotion as the “science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health, which is a balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health
American Journal of Health Promotion
defined health promotion as “behavior motivated by the desire to increase well- being and actualize human health potential”.
Pender et al (2006)
patterns of behaviors that maximize one’s quality of life and decrease one’s susceptibility to negative outcomes”.
healthy lifestyle
Who described a healthy lifestyle as “patterns of behaviors that maximize one’s quality of life and decrease one’s susceptibility to negative outcomes”?
The 2000 Joint Committee of Health Education and Promotion (Gold and Miner, 2002)
What focus on factors that exist or occur within the individual, which include knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, motivation, self-concept, developmental history, past experience, and skills?
Intrapersonal Theories
What are the intrapersonal Theories?
Health Belief Model
Stages of Change (Transtheoretical) Model
Theory of Planned Behavior
What are included in Transtheoretical Model?
Precontemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
What are the Interpersonal Theories?
Social Cognitive Theory
Health Promotion Model
What are the Community level theories and models?
Diffusion of Innovations Theory
Communication Theory
These are people who want to be the first to try the innovation. They are venturesome and interested in new ideas. These people are very willing to take risks, and are often the first to develop new ideas. Very little, if anything, needs to be done to appeal to this population.
Innovators
