WEEK 8 Flashcards
Intervention process
Consists of services provided by OTs in collaboration with clients to facilitate engagement in occupation related to health, wellbeing and achievement of established goals consistent with various service delivery models.
What is a community?
a group of people sharing an occupational engagement, interest, identity, issue, a circumstance or geographical location in which to work, play, or carry out other roles.
Upstream approach
Refers to addressing the root cause or broader determinants of health that influence health outcomes
Public health
Public health is the organized response by society to protect and promote health, and to prevent injury, illness and disability.
Focus on addressing the systemic inequities that impact health (where we are born, work and live)
A population based approach that focusses on societies as a whole rather than an individual level
health promotion
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health
Through health literacy efforts and multi-sectoral action to increase health behaviors
Can include activities for the community at large or target populations at increased risk of negative health outcomes
Usually address behavioral risk factors (smoking, obesity, diet and physical inactivity) AND mental health issues, injury prevention, drug abuse and sexual health
Work with them not on them
Ottawa charter
Ottawa charter Moved the focus of public health from disease prevention to capacity building for health.
3 Basic strategies for health promotion
Advocate – Boost factors which encourage health
Enable – allow all people to achieve their fullest potential
Mediate – coordinate actions and collaboration among sectors and stakeholders
Health literacy
Relates to how people access, understand and use health information in ways that benefit there health.
High risk factors of low health literacy
Older adults
Lower income
Unemployment
Did not finish high school aboriginal and Torres strait islanders
People who do not speak English or have English as a second language
People with disability/intellectual disability
Culturally diverse
What is diabetes
A chronic condition marked by high levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. It is caused by the inability to produce insulin (a hormone made by the pancreases to control blood glucose levels) or to use insulin effectively or both
Insulin pancreas makes can’t work properly or your pancreas can’t make enough insulin
90% of people with diabetes have type 2
7 essential health care behaviours of diabetes
Healthy eating
Physical activity
Monitoring blood sugars
Compliance with medications
Good problem solving skills
Healthy coping skills
Risk education
OT and diabetes
Goal setting
Education – about health terms and where to find useful information
Medication management
Reviewing everyday activities
Access and advocacy
Person-centered problem solving
