Population Health

Question 1

What is the foundations of health promotion approach?

Answer 1

• health is a capacity or resources of everyday life
• health enables us to pursue our goals, acquire skills, education and satisfy personal aspirations
• focus on the inequities in health experienced by marginalized/disadvantaged
• Defines strategies of health promotion that emphasize individual and community action to improve the QOL
• HEALTH PROMOTION IS the process of enabling people to take control over and improve their health (Ottawa charter ‘86)
• rooted in social justice, advocacy and partnerships

Question 2

In the 90’s why did HP lose favour with politicians?

Answer 2

• biomedical and economic push re rationalistic approaches to policy, research and care
• epidemiological approach; social demographic approach for policy making
• many cut backs

Question 3

Why did the population health approach to health begin?

Answer 3

• push for epidemiological approach & social demographic approach for policy making; more biomedical model in the 90’s

Question 4

Population Health.

Answer 4

an approach that addresses the entire range of factors that determine health status

Question 5

How do we address population health?

Answer 5

address inequities in health status among populations