Preliminary Core 1 - CQ3 What strategies help to promote health of individuals? Flashcards
What is Health Promotion?
Activities that are aimed at enabling people to increase control over their lives by improving their health and prevent illness.
What is individual and community empowerment?
Individual - Providing tools to take control of their OWN LIFE and make POSITIVE DECISIONS
Community - Enabling the community for action to improve their lives as a group
What are the 5 groups responsible for Health Promotion?
Governments
International organisation
Non-government organisations
Community groups and Schools
Individuals
What role does the Commonwealth/Federal government have?
Planning and forming national health policies
Identifying priorities
Allocation of funds for health promotion (Research + projects)
Establishing regulations + legislations
What does the State Government do?
Planning and DELIVERING health promotions and programs
Health promotion personnel develop and runs the programs
Eg: Breast cancer screening
What is the role for the Local Government?
Given SPECIFIC health roles to implement programs at a community level (Eg. Inspections, Storage prep)
Focuses on long-term environmental planning (Eg. Provision of open public spaces, Construction + Maintence)
Who are the WHO (The World Health Organisation)
United Nation system with 193 members who provide leadership on the GLOBAL
What does the WHO do?
Healthy research agenda
Setting norms + Standards
Articulate evidence - based policies
Technical support
Monitoring and assessing health trends
What is the aim of WHO?
To promote development and fostering health security
What approaches are the WHO using?
Enhancing partnership + Improve performance
What do the NGO’s do?
Focus on specific health issues on local, national, or international levels
Non profit making organisation funded by public donations, fundraising etc.
Collect data from research and surveys, lobbying and supporting community actions to raise awareness
What do community groups and schools do?
School: Forms attitudes, values and health beliefs
C.G: Provide health promotion initiatives
What do individuals need to do?
Individual empowerment
Provide accurate and relevant health info thats easy to access
Are given the opportunity involved in community and develop skills
Encouraged to work with health professionals
What is an intersectoral collaboration?
Is a collaborative movement to share energy, resources, roles and responsibilities
We gain ownership and credibility
Theres a wide range of health level increasing the likelihood to improving health outcomes
What are the three health promotion approaches and strategies?
Lifestyle/behaviour (individual)
Preventative medical approaches (indi + social)
Public health approaches (social)
What does lifestyle/behaviour approach do?
Reduce/prevent incidence of risk
Provision of knowledge
Target individual behaviors
Programs to promote self help practices
What does the preventative medical approach do?
Medical treatments
Working with health professionals to identify risk factors and provide medication
What are the 3 stages of medical treatment?
Primary: Don’t have and not at risk (targets population)
Secondary: Has a chance of having it (Genetics)
Tertiary: Already have and preventing it from worsening (Long term)
What do public Health Approaches do?
Programs, policies and services that create a supportive environment
Holistic approach
Recognises roles in social determinants
Encourage to get involved
Indi + community empowerment
What is Ottawa Charter and it’s aim?
Is a guide line or framework that health promotions follow to improve health, educate and prevent illnesses
What are the 5 acronyms in the Ottawa Charter
DPS: Developing Personal Skills
RHS: Reorienting Health Services
SCA: Strengthening Community Action
BHPP: Building Healthy Public Policy
CSE: Creating Supportive Environment
What is in DPS
Education and Individual Empowerment
What is in RHS?
Curative and preventative approaches
What is SCA?
Community empowerment
What is BHPP?
Legislation, law and taxes
What is CSE?
Creating a supportive physical and social environment (live work play)
What are the social justice principles (SEED)
Supportive Environments
Equity
Diversity
What is Equity?
When a disadvantaged person/group are given a different amount/quality of support to achieve fairness
What is equality?
When the same support is provided no matter the current state or circumstance
What is Diversity?
The different “social markers” (gender, age, socioeconomic status, geographical location, education levels etc.)
Attention to diversity can narrow the gap
