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What is Experiential Readiness determined by

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the learners:

  • Background (health/socio-economic status, family/work life)
  • Skills (learning style, developmental stage)
  • Ability to learn (literacy levels, disability)
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What is Emotional Readiness determined by..

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  • Attitudes and beliefs about health related behaviours
  • Internal motivation
  • External motivation
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Define: Emotional Readiness

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is the learners motivation or willingness to put in the effort needed to learn

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What are the 5 Stages of Health Behaviour

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Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
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Name 3 factors influencing behaviour change

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Pre-disposing factors
Reinforcing factors
Enabling factors

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What makes up the Health Belief Model

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In response to a perceived threat:
Demographic variables---
- Perceived susceptibility
- Perceived severity
- Perceived benefits
- Perceived barriers
- Cues to action
- Health motivation
--- Likelihood of action being taken
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Explain: Health Belief Model

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was developed to explain non-participation in disease prevention programs

  • also used as a model for predicting individual preventative health behaviours and how likely a person is to sustain behaviour change
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Explain: Theory of Planned Behvaiour

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this suggests that a person’s behaviour is determined by their intention to perform the behaviour
…and that this intention is in turn a function of their attitude towards the behaviour as well as subjective norms and perceived control

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What elements make up the Theory of Planned Behvaiour

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  1. Behavioural beliefs, Outcome evaluation, Normative beliefs and Motivation to Comply
  2. Attitude, Subjective norm, Perceived control
  3. Intention
  4. Behaviour
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In the Theory of Planned Behaviour-
what factors impact on a person’s attitude, subjective norm and perceived control when intending to change their behaviour

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  • Behavioural beliefs
  • Outcome evaluation
  • Normative beliefs
  • Motivation to comply
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Readiness to learn is influenced by…

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Learning style
Resources
Motivation
Cultural and religious practices
Emotional barriers
Physical/Cognitive limitations
Language barriers
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What are the 3 types of Collaboration

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Multidisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
Intersectoral

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Define: Intersectoral Collaboration

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the cooperation or working together of all sectors who are involved in improving health

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What are the advantages of Intersectorial Collaboration

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  • Ensures client needs are considered flexibly
  • Efficient and effective use of resources
  • Encourages cooperative efforts to build capacity for change
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What are the challenges to Intersectoral Collaboration

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  • ‘Non-health’ PHC strategies are outside the statutory control of the health sector
  • PHC per se is not on the agenda of ‘non-health’ sectors
  • Practical initiatives from the health sector towards intersectoral collaboration are lacking
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Define: Community Participation

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the involvement of consumers, carers and communities in decision making about their own healthcare and healthcare services

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What is the goal of Community Participation

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Empowerment- helping people develop mastery and control over the key processes that influence their lives

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List the benefits of Community Participation

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  • Improved health care for consumers
  • Promotes a transparent and accountable health service
  • Consumers contribute valuable local knowledge
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What factors influence Community Participation

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Socio-economic status
Geographic location
Sociocultural and political context
Access of community members

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List the barriers to Community Participation

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  • Policy that doesn’t transfer into practice
  • Lack of community consultation
  • High expectations
  • Lack of representativeness
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What are the 4 types of communities

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Geographical
Relational
Common interest/Affiliation
Ecological

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What is a healthy community

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one with the presence of:

  • strong social capital
  • engaged and empowered members
  • dynamic, healthy physical, social and spiritual environment
  • accessible, affordable and equitable services and resources
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Define: Population Health

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seeks to improve the health and prevent disease of whole populations or specific populations

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Give an example: Population health initiatives

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Vaccinations
Clean drinking water
Family planning

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What are the 5 strategies of the Ottawa Charter
``` Strengthen community action Develop personal skills Create supportive environments Reorientate health services Build healthy public policy ```
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Define: Community assessment
is a process for systematically collecting and analysing information about a community, as well as an opportunity to build the capacity of community members, by involving them integrally in the process
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What are the 3 steps in Community assessment
1. Gather relevant data about the community 2. Analyse the data 3. Identify community health problems and strengths
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Define: SWOT
Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
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What are 3 models for community assessment
SDH Assessment Circle Community as partner approach Needs assessment
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Explain: SDH Assessment cirlce model for community assessment
Works in collaboration with community using SWOT and shares findings with them
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Explain: Community as partner approach model for community assessment
uses a community assessment wheel | - Community at the core with 8 community subsystems around
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Explain: Community needs assessment model for community assessment
involves identification of conditions or factors in the community which, if absent, prevent people from achieving optimum physical, mental and social wellbeing
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What are the 4 categories of needs
Felt- what people say they need Expressed- inferred by observation Normative- based on expert opinion Comparative- an examination of services
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Define: Epidemiology
is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events, and the application of this study to the control of diseases in other health problems
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Define the calculation used to determine Incidence
Number of new cases __________________________ x100 = incidence rate Population
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Define: Incidence
The frequency of NEW occurences of disease, injury, or death over a specific period of time
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Define: Prevalence
the total number (new plus existing) of cases of a particular disease or health issue in a population at any one time
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Define: Patient Education
A series of planned teaching-learning activities designed for individuals, families or groups who have identified alteration in health
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Define: Health education
any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes
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Explain: New health education
Based on an empowerment model Focuses on enabling people and communities - knowledge of the causes of ill-health - the capacity to address these causes
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Define: Health Literacy
is the ability to make sound health decisions in everyday life
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What are the 3 levels of health literacy
Functional Communicative/interactive Critical
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Level of health literacy Define: Functional
is the level where a person has sufficient knowledge of health conditions, health risks, health promotion and health services to function effectively in a health context
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Level of health literacy Define: Communicative
is about community level interactions whereby community members influence and help others to increases their capacity to influence determinants
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Level of health literacy Define: Critical
is where people or communities as a whole have the skills to engage in community action and work with others to build health capacity on a community wide scale
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Define: REALM-SF
Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine- Short Form - is a 7 item word recognition test to provide clinicians with a valid quick assessment of client health literacy
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How is empowerment promoted?
through building: - Social capital - Individual and community capacity
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What are 2 techniques for health education
Didactic methods- knowledge transmission | Experiential methods- skills development (hands on)

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