Week 1

Question 1

Medical Model of Health

Answer 1

• health is absense of disease
• health services treat sick and disabled
  -high value on specialist medical services
  -health workers, diagnose, treat and sanction sick role
  -find biological cause for illness

Question 2

Social Model of Health

Answer 2

-health is a product of social, biological and environment
-services emphasize all stages of prevention and treatment
-less emphasis on specialists
-attantion to self help and community activtiy
-enable people to take control over own health
-focus on why people are healthy

Question 3

medical model of health promotion intervention

Answer 3

involve health care workers screening for disease and providing treatment for those who are positive

Question 4

social model of health promotion intervention

Answer 4

-involve working with community members and organizations to understand social and environmental factors that protect community members from infection & improve those factors

Question 5

Holistic model of health

Answer 5

-understandings of health and wellness that are similar to how indigenous groups conceptualize ideas as Medicine Wheel

Question 6

Medicine Wheel

Answer 6

circle divided into 4 quadrants and each is a component of health

Question 7

4 quadrants of medicine wheel

Answer 7

physical, mental, emotional and spiritual

Question 8

mental component of medicine wheel

Answer 8

Taking care of the mind & learning new things

Question 9

physical component of medicine wheel

Answer 9

nurturing bodies and develop skills to enable us to be active and healthy

Question 10

emotional component of medicine wheel

Answer 10

expressing your feelings and having positive relationships with others

Question 11

spiritual component of medicine wheel

Answer 11

Connecting with others, your culture, nature and a higher being

Question 12

medicine wheel and health

Answer 12

-to be healthy, all components must be equally developed and in balance
-can be used to assess and set goals to improve health and well being

Question 13

what models of health are more expansive

Answer 13

holistic or social compared to medical

Question 14

unified model of health

Answer 14

attempts to reconcile 4 ways of thinking about health

Question 15

unified 4 ways of thinking about health

Answer 15

1. An ideal state
2. Mental and physical fitness
3. A commodity
4. Personal Strength

Question 16

critique regarding unified model of health

Answer 16

it focuses too much on individual determinants and ignores vital social determinants - it also may lead to diverse definitions of health that is not useful for health promotion