Overview of Health Promotion Flashcards
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Health promotion
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any event, process or activity which facilitates the protection or improvement of the health of individuals, groups, communities or populations
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Inequity
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a lack of fairness or justice between different social groups.
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Inequality
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a difference in life opportunities that is correlated with social position or status, ethnicity, gender, age or any other way of grouping people (see also social inequality).
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Medical model
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a way of thinking about health and illness that assumes all health and illness phenomena are physiological in nature. According to this model, health, illness and treatments have a purely biological or biochemical basis.
