Week 8 - Health Promoting Universities Flashcards
How does the Settings Approach define Health
- Health is created and lived by people with the settings of their everyday life
What does a setting mean in the Settings Approach to Health?
- Where people learn, work, play, and love (Ottawa Charter)
What does the Settings Approach to Health Explore?
- The places in peoples day-to-day lives where health and illness is produced
Who put forth the Settings Approach and When?
World Health Organization
- In Mid 1980s
What does the Settings Approach say about the actions proposed in the Ottawa Charter?
- Settings is where health is produced and that is where actions should be implemented
What was the first example of Health Promotion using the Settings Approach?
- Healthy Cities movement started in 1986
What is the Settings Approach Applied to?
- Cities and towns
- Schools
- Workplaces
- Healthcare Settings
- Virtual Settings
Why would you use a Settings Approach?
- Setting is where people actively use and shape the environment
- Where people create or solve health-related problems
- Has boundaries and defined roles that can be identified
What are the boundaries that can be identified in the Settings Approach?
- Physical Boundaries
- Membership Boundaries
- ORganizational Boundaries
Where did the Okanagan Charter occur?
- In 2015, UBC co-hosted the International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges on the Okanagan Campus
What did the Okanagan Charter include?
- Participants from 45 nations representing higher education organizations and health organizations
- WHO and UNESCO
What is the International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges informed by?
- The Ottawa Charter
What does the International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges call for?
- ‘Health promotion action’
What does the International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges address?
- The unique role of universities in health promotion
How do universities have a unique role in health promotion?
- Engage the student voice
- Provide transformative education
- Develop new knowledge and understanding
- Lead by example
- Advocate to decision-makers for the benefit of society
In the Emergent Knowledge Society what are higher education institutes re-positioned to generate, share, and implement?
- knowledge and research findings to enhance health of citizens and communities for both now and the future
What was the Okanagan Charter’s Vision?
- Health promoting universities and colleges transform the health and sustainability of our current and future societies, strengthen communities, and contribute to the wellbeing of people, places and the planet
What were the Okanagan Charter’s two calls for action for higher education institutions?
- Embed health into all aspects of campus culture, across the administration, operations, and academic mandates.
- Lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally
What does UBC do to its strategic planning process in response to the Okanagan Charter?
- Include Wellbeing