Week 1 - What is Health Promotion? Flashcards
What is Agency?
- The capacity of individuals to act independently and make free choices
What is Structure?
- Patterned arrangements that influence or limit choices available
What do most health theories and perspectives include?
- Extent to which human behaviour is determined by social structure
What is referred to as agency and determinism?
- the key debate in sociology over the extent to which human behaviour is determined by social structure.
What does health inequalities refer to?
- Differences in the health of individuals or groups
Is health inequality measureable?
YES
What is a Health Inequity?
- Specific type of health inequality that denotes an unjust difference in health
What is Intersectionality?
- Idea that one needs to examine how various biological, cultural, and social categories interact on multiple levels that lead to oppression and inequality
What is the medical definition of health?
- Normal physical state
- free of physical and mental disease or pain
What is the academic definition of health?
- The interplay of biological, psychological, and social aspects of the person life.
What is the World Health Organization’s definition of Health?
- A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
- Not merely the absence of disease and infirmity
What is the Indigenous Perspective on health?
- Living in total harmony with nature and having the ability to survive under exceedingly difficult circumstances
What are common amongst the definitions of health?
- Socially constructed
- Change over time and across cultures
- Represents the knowledge base, values, and priorities of different constituents or stakeholders
What was the definition of health according to the Ottawa Charter?
- Healthy is seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living.
How did the Ottawa Charter focus on health as a resources?
Inequal
- distribution
- access
- ability to achieve
What does the Ottawa Charter suggest for an approach to health?
- Collectively work towards conditions that reduce health inequities and health inequalities
Describe health as a process
- Health is not static
- Constant negotiation of circumstances towards better or lesser health
- Aim for best possible health given the context
