Multidisciplinary approach to health promotion Flashcards
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What is the Ottawa Charter
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- Building health public policies
- Creating supportive environments
- Strengthen community action
- Develop personal skills
- Re-orientating health services
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What is a multidisciplinary approach
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2 or more agencies working together to achieve a health gain
3
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Factors affecting health
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- Social & economic
- Fixed
- Environment
- Lifestyle
- Access to services
4
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Whats the government’s role in health promotion
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- Provide national coordination and leadership
- Ensure all policy takes account of health
- International co-operation to improve health
- Assess risk and communicate to the public
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What are Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s)
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- Healthy strategy at a local level
- Protecting health
- Improve health status of local population
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What are some non-governmental organisations
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- Pressure groups
- Utilising government funding for campaigns
7
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What’s the media’s role in health promotion
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- Expand programme of expert briefings
- Support development of an independent national centre for media and health
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What’s the shared set of priorities for action
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- Reduce the number of smokers
- Reduce obesity
- Increase exercise
- Encourage and support sensible drinking
- Improve sexual and mental health
9
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How does the multidisciplinary approach effect smoking cessation
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- Pricing policy has risen 43% over the past 12 years
- Ban tobacco promotion and advertising
- 2006 - government departments go smoke free
- 2007 - all enclosed public places + workplaces to be smoke free
10
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What was the effect of tobacco advertising?
What does this show?
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- Fall in smoking on a large scale
- Shows advertising does have a positive effect on consumption
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How can the NHS and health professionals support smoking cessation
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- Sale of zyban and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRTs)
- Advice and support for those stopping
12
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What is the multidisciplinary approach to oral health
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- Department of health published an oral health action plan for england
- Legislation on water fluoridation
- Food advertising focused on kids was banned
- Labelling of foods with colour coding
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PCT’s and the NHS
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- Develop food policies
- Set local oral health priorities with advice from Oral Health Advisory Groups
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NHS partnerships with other health partnerships
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- Midwives provide advice on oral health
- Carers of the elderly can be given oral health training
- Pharmacists promote sugar-free medication
15
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Explain the ‘chuck sweets off the check-out’ works
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- 1992/93 - Sainsburys and Waitrose sweet free checkouts
- 1995 - Tesco and Safeway also sweet free
- 60% of supermarket check-outs went sweet-free
