Module 7 Flashcards
How does a person’s biological/genetic endowment impact health?
- Heredity is strongly influenced by social and physical environments.
- Making efforts to prevent congenital defects through monitoring and improved preconception and prenatal care has led to substantial decreases in anomalies at birth.
- Age is also a strong determinant of health. Many older people develop chronic diseases, although disability can be reduced with healthy aging.
- This simply means that some health disorders and health immunities are hereditary and thus can have a direct impact on health.
Identify resources that promote health related to:
Biological & Genetic endowment;
Early childhood development;
Personal health practices and coping skills;
Health services.
What determines health; Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary; Immigrant Services Calgary; Alex Community Health Centre; Calgary Community Gardens; Calgary Community Kitchens Program; Calgary John Howard Society; Kerby Centre; Calgary Urban Projects Society (CUPS); National Adult Literacy Database (NALD); Global Village Calgary; Alberta Learning Information Services (ALIS); Worksafe Alberta; Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety.
How does early child development impact health?
During this stage of development, the brain is greatly responsive to environmental cues and undergoes dramatic changes. Healthy child development can be disrupted by excessive or prolonged activation of stress response systems in the body and brain, often referred to as toxic stress.
3 conditions are required for good childhood development:
Adequate income
Effective parenting and families (relates to communication skills, future parenting skills, perceptions on life, was this child neglected or loved?)
Supportive environment (community)
How does early child development impact health?
During this stage of development, the brain is greatly responsive to environmental cues and undergoes dramatic changes. Healthy child development can be disrupted by excessive or prolonged activation of stress response systems in the body and brain, often referred to as toxic stress.
How do adverse childhood experiences impact the health of an adult?
Toxic stress has the potential to negatively affect the architecture of the developing brain and can often be linked to the determinants of health. Maternal and/or child-hood exposure to environmental stress such as poverty, violence, conflict, neglect, and food insecurity have been associated with many lifelong health concerns, including cognitive deficits, mental health and behavioural disorders, substance misuse, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and coronary heart disease. Schools also play a role in healthy child development as they can provide an environment in which students feel secure, respected, challenged, and cared for, helping to ensure that children succeed academically.
Define Personal Health Practices and Coping Skills
Effective coping skills help people face challenges without resorting to risk behaviours such as substance misuse. Many so-called risk behaviours may, in fact, be coping strategies for stress and strain caused by living circumstances. Three risk behaviours with major detrimental health consequences are physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use.
List personal health practices that impact health.
physical activity
nutrition
tobacco use
What influences lifestyle choices?
Child development - education
Gender - Culture
Social environments - income
List some health services:
hospital, long term care facilities (provide 24 hour care for patients with debilitating illness, serves as a temporary home, is about maintaining highest level of functioning, ), Psychiatric facilities, rehab centres, public health, physician offices, Community health centres and clinics, , Assisted living facilities, Home care, Adult day support programs, Community and voluntary agencies, Occupational health, Hospice/palliative care, Parish nursing
What are the data that needs to be collected for early childhood development
Developmental milestones (did the child learn to walk or talk at the expected age for those skills?)
Immunizations (did this child get access to healthcare and receive treatment as needed at the time expected?)
Nutrition/physical activity (was this child well fed? what was their birth weight? how often did this child engage in physical activities?)
School environment (what kind of school did they go to? how were they treated in school?)
What are the data that needs to be collected for access to health services
-Publicly insured services
Alberta Health Care insurance plan
General Practitioners
(do people have access to pub health services? are their needs met with pub health services?)
-Private insurance plans WCB Employer benefits AB Blue Cross (people tend to switch to private to get faster care, to have their needs met.)
- Geography (do they have access to health services from where they live? is there a hospital nearby? what are the roads like to get to the nearest health services?)
- Logistics –transportation (can they get to their health services? how?)
- Capacity – wait lists
- Information (ties into education and literacy, knowing which sites are reputable for info on health services, knowing where to find info)
- Nontraditional services
