Promoting Health Flashcards
What is the definition of “promoting health”?
health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health
+ maintain well being
What are the stages involved in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion?
What are the 3 components of the WHO Charter for Health Promotion?
1. Good Governance:
- strengthening governance and policies to make healthy choices accessible and affordable to all
2. Healthy cities:
- creating greener cities that enable people to live, work and play in harmony and good health
3. Health literacy:
- increasing knowledge and social skills to help people to make the healthiest choices and decisions for their families and themselves
What government campaign is used to develop personal skills?
change 4 life
this is involved in provision of information and enhancement of life skills
What are the stages involved in strengthening community action?
increasing the level of public impact:
inform:
- providing the public with balanced and objective information to assist them in understanding the problem, alternatives, opportunities and solutions
consult:
- obtain public feedback on analysis, alternatives and decisions
involve:
- work directly with the public throughout the process to ensure that their concerns and aspirations are considered and understood
collaborate:
- partner with the public in each aspect of the decision including the development of alternatives and identification of the preferred solutions
empower:
- place final decision-making in the hands of the public
What are examples of strengthening community action through “informing”?
leaflets, posters etc. to educate the public on how to be more healthy, risks of alcohol, 5-a-day etc.
consider the level of motivation and how to fit in with their lifestyle
How is strengthening community action through “consulting” acheived?
involving the public in:
- developing the intervention through patient views
- evalutaing the intervention
How is strengthening community action through involving and collaborating acheived?
by involving the public in designing the intervention as partners
How is strengthening community action through “empowering” acheived?
patient empowerment
this is a multi-dimensional social process that:
- helps people to gain control over their own lives
- fosters power in people, for use in their own lives, their communities, and in their society, by acting on issues that they define as important
What factors are involved in creating supportive environments?
- psychosocial
- socioeconomic
- natural
- chemical
- food
What are the five approaches to health promotion?
- medical or preventative
- behaviour change
- educational
- empowerment
- social change
What are the three levels of prevention?
primary level:
- preventing the onset of diseases
secondary level:
- detecting and treating pre-symptomatic diseases
tertiary level:
- minimising the effects of a disease
What is the role of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention?
primordial prevention:
- prevent the development of risk factors
primary prevention:
- manage the risk factors to prevent the onset of disease
secondary prevention:
- early diagnosis and prompt treatment
tertiary prevention:
- reduce complication and disability
What are the disadvantages to the medical approach?
- as its lead by health professionals it can have a paternalistic approach
- it is based on a medical definition of health - the absence of disease or infirmity
- it ignores the social determinants of health