Week 3 - Reading: Chapter 2 - Key Concepts in Health Promotion Flashcards
What are concepts?
- crucial for research and practice
What do concepts do?
- Define a field
- Stimulate theory-building
- Reflect its values
What are some key concepts covered in Chapter 2: Key Concepts in Health Promotion?
- Health
- Health Promotion
- Social Determinants of Health
- Empowerment
- Health Literacy
- Quality of Life
What does concepts in health promotion reflect?
- Evolution in health promotion thinking and practice
What is the concept of health?
- Health is fundament across various fields
- Multiple views on health exist
What influential definitions of health exist?
- WHO: focus on complete well-being
- Lalonde’s: ‘health field concept’
What does the concept of health in health promotion reflect?
- Transition in thinking from individualistic to social and policy views
What do Canadian models of health emphasize?
- A broad social determinants approach
What is the Ottawa Charter’s concept of health promotion?
- Emphasizes enabling individuals to improve health
What does Green and Kreuter’s definition of health promotion include?
- Various strategies for health improvement
How does Health Education differ from Health Promotion?
- Health Promotion evolved from health education, expanding focus beyond individual behaviours
How does health education remain relevant?
- within health promotion as one of its strategies
What does the social determinants of health focus on?
- Economic and social conditions shaping health
Is the social determinants of health relevant?
- Globally by WHO and addressed in various national policies
Describe empowerment as a concept of health promotion
- process of enabling individuals or communities to gain control over their lives
Why is empowerment a useful concept in health promotion?
- Integral to reducing health inequities
Describe health literacy as a concept of health promotion
- Ability to access, understand, evaluate, and communicate health information
Why is health literacy a useful concept in health promotion?
- Crucial fro promoting, maintaining, and improving health across life stages
Describe Quality of Life as a concept of health promotion
- Ultimate outcome of health promotion
What does quality of life as a health promotion concept include?
- Physical
- Psychological
- Social
- Community Components
What is emphasized in the Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion?
- Quality of Life
What is the evolution of health promotion?
- Shifts from individualistic views toward more holistic and social determinant-based approaches
How does the evolution of health promotion reflect changing perspectives on health?
- Reflects recognition of the multifaceted nature of health promotion efforts
What are some critiques of definitions of health promotion?
- WHO: lacks specificity or puts no boundaries on what is encompassed, potentially leading to limitless expenditure
