Topic 2 DOH Health Promotion Flashcards
What is health promotion?
Health promotion is directed toward increasing the level of well-being and self-actualization.
It is the process of enabling people to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health. Participation is essential to sustain health promotion action.
What is disease prevention?
Disease prevention, specifically primary prevention, is action to avoid or forestall illness/disease.
It includes activities that protect against a disease before signs and symptoms occur.
What are the three levels of disease prevention?
- Primary prevention
- Secondary prevention
- Tertiary prevention
Primary prevention includes activities that protect against disease before symptoms occur, secondary focuses on early detection, and tertiary minimizes disability.
What is an example of primary prevention?
Examples include immunization and reduction of risk factors.
These actions aim to prevent the onset of disease.
What is an example of secondary prevention?
An example includes preventive screening.
This approach promotes early detection of diseases.
What is an example of tertiary prevention?
An example is a cardiac rehabilitation program.
This type of prevention helps people live productively with limitations.
What are the five broad health promotion strategies identified by the Ottawa Charter?
- Build Healthy Public Policy
- Create Supportive Environments
- Strengthen Community Action
- Develop Personal Skills
- Reorient Health Services
These strategies aim to enhance health across communities.
What does ‘Build Healthy Public Policy’ involve?
It focuses on policies that create healthy living conditions.
Advocacy is best achieved through intersectoral collaboration.
What is the goal of creating supportive environments in health promotion?
To ensure that physical environments are healthy, safe, and stimulating.
This includes protecting the natural environment and conserving resources.
What is the significance of strengthening community action?
It involves effective community action and partnering with other organizations to achieve better health.
Public participation is key to community development.
What is the purpose of developing personal skills in health promotion?
To help clients enhance coping strategies and gain control over their health.
Personal skills development includes health education.
What are the two objectives of health system reform in the context of reorienting health services?
- Shift from treating disease to improving health
- Make the health care system more efficient and effective
Emphasis is placed on developing the primary health care model.
What is the Population Health Promotion Model?
It integrates health promotion and population health, showing their relationship.
This model highlights the role of nursing in promoting health among lower-income patients.
What are the three recent approaches to health?
- Medical
- Behavioural
- Socioenvironmental
Each approach has a unique focus on health practices, psychosocial factors, and socioenvironmental conditions.
True or False: Health promotion is the same as disease prevention.
False.
Health promotion differs from disease prevention in focus and approach.
What does population health aim to do?
It addresses the entire population and aims at eliminating health disparities.
This approach considers the health determinants that are intersectoral and interrelated.
Fill in the blank: The three levels of disease prevention are _______.
primary, secondary, tertiary.
