prerequisites for health Flashcards
as determined by WHO
Peace
the absence of conflict
Shelter
a structure that provides protection from the outside environment
Food
obtain nutritionally adequate, culturally appropriate, safe food regularly
Education
empowers individuals and increases the ability to: promote literacy, earn an income, understand health promotion messages, obtain meaningful and well paid employment, find meaning and purpose in life and take control over their lives.
Income
that increases the ability to afford resources such as healthcare, recreation, transport and education(individual) and, from a population perspective, income increases the capacity of governments to provide social services and resources such as public housing, education and healthcare; social security, infrastructure, recreation, facilities such as parks and gardens, law and order.
A stable ecosystem
a community that consists of all of the living and nonliving components of a particular area. The living components include plants, animals and microorganisms such as bacteria, and the non-living components include weather, rocks, soil and watercourses.
Sustainable resources
relate to ensuring that the resources used to promote health and wellbeing in the present are available for future generations, so they too can experience a good quality life.
Social justice (‘sameness’)
equal rights for all, regress of personal traits such as sex, class and income, ethnicity, religion, age or sexual orientation.
equity(‘fairness’)
has a particular focus on disadvantaged groups
Acronym
People should eat food including some sustainable salad everyday
Structure
Peace preserves infrastructure such as roads, hospitals and agriculture which can mean people get healthcare and food needed, which may decrease illness and disease which may decrease the rates of morbidity.
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