PowerPoint Week 1 Flashcards
What is the term for “ an objective state of ill health ?
Disease
A subjective experience of loss of health is what?
ill ness
What are factors of multidimensional conceptualization of health?
- Feeling vitalized & full of energy
- Having satisfying social relationships
- Having a feeling of control over one’s life and living conditions
- Being able to do things that one enjoys
- Having a sense of purpose
- Feeling connected to community
What are the historical approaches to health in canada?
- Medical approach
- Behavioral approach
- Socioenvironmental approach
Which historical approach to health care emphasizes that medical intervention restores health?
The medical approach
What does the behavioral approach in the historical approaches to health in Canada emphasizes to focus primarily on health practices?
The behavioral approach
What does the socioenvironmental approach emphasize?
Psychosocial factors and socioenvironmental conditions
What are the major determinants of health?
- Psychosocial risk factors
- Socioenvironmental risk conditions
Psychosocial risk factors are what?
Complex psychological experiences resulting from social circumstances that include isolation, lack or social support, limited social networks, low self-esteem, self-blame, and low perceived power.
Isolation, lack of social support, limited social networks, low self-esteem, self-blame, and low perceived power are all examples of what risk factor?
Psychosocial risk factors
Socioenvironmental risk conditions are what?
Social & environmental living conditions that include poverty, low educational or occupational status, dangerous or stressful work, dangerous physical environments, pollution, discrimination, relative political or economic powerlessness, and inequalities of income or power
Poverty, low educational or occupational status, dangerous or stressful work, dangerous physical environment, pollution, discrimination, relative political or economic powerlessness, and inequalities of income or power are all examples of what risk condition?
Socioenvironmental
What are all the determinants of health?
- Income and social status
- Social support networks
- Education and literacy
- Employment and working conditions
- Physical environments
- Biological and genetic endowment
- Individual health practices and coping skills
- Healthy child development
- Health services
- Gender
- Culture
What is the difference between health promotion and disease prevention?
Health prevention is directed toward increasing the level of well being and self-actualization where as disease prevention is an action to avoid or forestall illness/disease.
How does the Ottawa charter view health promotion?
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve, their health
What are the 3 levels of disease prevention?
- Primary prevention
- Secondary prevention
- Tertiary prevention
Activities that protect against a disease before signs & symptoms occur describe what level of disease prevention?
Primary prevention
Immunizations, and reduction risk of factors ( inactivity, wearing masks during Covid-19, etc.) are examples of what level of disease prevention?
Primary prevention
Activities that promote early detection of disease once pathogens has occurred, and prompt treatment that stops disease and limit disability describes what level of disease prevention?
Secondary prevention
Screening for cancer, blood pressure screening to detect hypertension, blood glucose screening to detect diabetes are examples of what level of disease prevention?
Secondary prevention
Activities that start in the convalescence stage of disease and is directed toward minimizing disability, helping people to live productively with limitations describe what level of disease prevention?
Tertiary prevention
Cardiac rehabilitation program after a myocardial infarction is an example of what level of disease prevention?
Tertiary prevention
What are the health prevention principles?
- Addresses health issues in context
- Supports a holistic approach
- Requires a long-term perspective
- Is multisectoral
- Draws on knowledge from social, economic, political, environmental, medical, and nursing sciences, as well as from first-hand experiences.
What are the health promotion strategies?
- Build a healthy public policy
- Create supportive environments
- Strengthen community action
- Develop personal skills
- Reorient health services
Who fall under the vulnerable populations and high risk groups?
- People who live in poverty
- People who are homeless
- People who live in precarious circumstances
- People with chronic conditions and disabilities
- People who engage in stigmatizing risk behaviors
- Indigenous peoples
- New immigrants and refugees
How many calls for action did The Truth and Reconciliation Commission publish for indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians to come together in a concerted effort to help repair the harm caused by residential schools and move forward with reconciliation?
94
How can spirituality be defined?
1 “ A way of being in the world in which a person feels a sense of connectedness to self, others, and/or higher power or nature
2. “ a sense of meaning in life”
Why is spirituality beneficial?
It can help individuals achieve a balance needed to maintain health an well-being
An altruistic, interpersonal, intuitive, and integrative process by which the nurse seeks to understand and reflect the patients spiritual values , beliefs and experiences describe what type of care?
Spiritual care
What does to mean for a nurse to be alruistic?
For the nurse to put the patients needs first.
What are some barriers to nurses offering spiritual care?
- Time constraints
- Lack of privacy
- Inadequate training
- Role confusion
