Theme 5 Flashcards
Actions to reduce health inequalities
Strengthening individuals
Strengthening the communities
Improving living and working conditions
Promoting healthy macro-policies
Strengthening individuals
Person based strategies
Personal characteristics
Solution in terms of personal education and development
–> Health information campagnes, one-one counceling
Strengthening the communities
To build social cohesion and support
Horizontal aims to improve social interactions within the same group
–> Infrastructure, facilities for social interaction
Improving living and working conditions
Access to housing, sanitation, food supplies, safer work places & better access to health and social care
People in worst conditions benefit the most from this
Promoting healthy macro-policies
Macroeconomic cultural and environmental conditions cause health inequalities within a country
Reduce poverty
Following the WHO there should be a shift from … to
well-being to self-management
Crucial self-management abilities for older people
Taking initiative
Self-efficacy beliefs
Investment behaviour (be willing to do something)
Positive frame of mind
Multifunctionality
Variety (more than one friend)
Needs in SPF theory are
Affection, status and behavioural confirmation
Production needs
Add to overal well-being in SPF
Three needs:
Control
Efficiency
Loss frame
Buffering
Way to realize well-being
Having a buffer
Substitution
Way to realize well-being
Compensate for a lower level goal with another lower level goal
Multifunctionality
One activity can contribute to multiple lower level goals
E.g. walk with friend
Elderly in general
More status & behavioural confirmation
Frail older people
Less stimulation and comfort
Turkish older migrants
Less status and behavioural confirmation
