week 1 Flashcards
What is the Canadian Health Act?
All people are guaranteed access to healthcare regardless of employment, income, or health
How does the medical model view health?
Health is the absence of disease
What is the definition of health?
Health is a resource for everyday living. It is the ability to lead a socially and economically productive life. It is a holistic experience.
What is the biomedical approach to healthcare?
Focuses on the treatment of disease. It views patients as their diseases rather than a person.
What is the behavioural approach to healthcare?
It places the responsibility of health in the individual. The main determinant of health is individual behaviour and health is the product of making healthy lifestyle choices.
What is the socio-environmental approach?
Health is the product of individual, social, economic, and environmental determinants that provide barriers to health of individuals. Focuses on holistic health.
What is the Lalonde report?
It is the first document to acknowledge the inadequacy of a strictly biomedical healthcare system. Health determinants are lifestyle, environment, biology, and organization of healthcare.
What does the Ottawa Charter describe?
It is an example of a health promotion that describes the prerequisites for health: peace, shelter, education, income, food, stable ecosystem, equity, social justice, sustainable resources
what is health promotion?
it is empowering people to increase control over and improve their health. it focuses on achieving equity in health
what is Epp’s report?
It is one of the first health promotion reports. it describes the 3 major health challenges: reducing inequalities, increasing prevention, and enhancing coping mechanisms. it also recognizes the disparities in health especially between high and low income people
what are some of the social determinants of health?
income/income distribution, housing, disability, food insecurity, immigration, employment/working conditions, social safety net, geography, education, race, indigenous ancestry, childhood development, social exclusion, health services
what is equitable access?
services are provided based on need
what are the barriers to health?
stigma, language barriers, transportation, wait times, no coverage, food deserts, policies, age, gender
what is primary care?
It is the first point of contact with the healthcare system.
what is primary healthcare?
it’s a social movement that realigns resources to address SDOH. it’s focus is to reshape the delivery of healthcare in Canada. Includes primary care
