preventitive medicine and health promotion Flashcards
definition of health promotion
Is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve the health it moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour and towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions
creating awareness, changing behaviour and creating environments that support good health practices (tala. it contains a Wide range of social & environmental interventions
exaples of secondary prevention
early screening breast, cervical cancer, prostate
sublcincal Hiv stages
early hypertension stage before signs appear
tertialry def
dealing with the long term consequences of the disease and managing them or trying to diminish them
primary
target ; a healthy population
HELATH PROMOTION
SECONDARY
target : population att RISK (usually subclinical)
what does primary prevention target
- total population
- specifci groups which are high rsik
Population strategy advantages disadvantages
Population strategy
Adv: radical, large potential for whole population, behaviourally appropriate
Disadv: small benefit to individuals, poor motivation of subjects, poor motivation of physicians, benefit-to-risk ratio may be low
high-risk-individual strategy advantages
high-risk-individual strategy
Adv: appropriate for individuals, subject motivation, physician motivation, favourable benefit-to-risk ratio
Disadv: difficulties in identifying high-risk individuals, temporary effect, limited effect and behaviourally inappropriate
health promotion things you can talk about
role of the gp, primary prevention (non specific) in relation for socially significant diseases etc.
health promotion things you can talk about
role of the gp, primary prevention (non specific) in relation for socially significant diseases etc.
Ottawa charter for Health Promotion (1986)
Ottawa charter for Health Promotion (1986) à 5 key actions:
1) Build healthy public policy
2) Create supportive environment for health
3) Strengthen community actions for health
4) Develop personal skills
5) Re-orient health services
3 basic Health promotion strategies:
1) ENABLE good health
2) MEDIATE good health
3) ADVOCATE good health
INTRO -nb
HP is a multidisciplinary field of practice which was introduced in 1984 by WHO as a comprehensive new approach to bringing about social changes to improve health at the population level.
ottawa charter definition of health
Is the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and improve their health
tannahils model of health promotion
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