Workshop/Workbook 9 Flashcards
What are the six key concepts of the health belief model?
Perceived susceptibility: could the problem affect me?
Perceived seriousness of consequences: am I worried about what might happen if it did?
Perceived threat: is it a threat that I should do something about?
Perceived benefits of action: will the change be good for me?
Perceived barriers to taking action: what stops me from making this change?
Outcome expectations: what do I think will happen if I change?
These all lead to self efficacy: Do I think I can do it?
What are the upstream, midstream and downstream approaches?
Downstream: individual level intervention deals with the presenting medical problem or disease. Links to the biomedical model.
Midstream: population interventions that target defined populations in order to change and /or prevent behavioural risk factors. It could be labelled as the ‘behavioural’. Links to behavioural, health promotion and prevention lifestyle and prevention programs.
Upstream: concerned with identifying the ‘causes of the causes’ of illness and disease that stem from social, political, economic or cultural perspectives and then implementing national and regional public policies or environmental interventions at a macro level to eradicate the sources of the problems.
What is population health?
The study of health and disease in defined populations, (patient population, geographic populations e.g. a community). Population health is interested in why some people are healthy and others are not and aims to improve the health of entire populations.
What is public health?
Public health occurs in the community and focuses on prevention, promotion and protection rather than on treatment: on populations rather than individuals, and on factors and behaviours that affect health and cause illness and injury
What is the relationship between empowerment, public health care and cultural security?
Empowerment, public health care and cultural security all require reciprocal trust, collaboration, participatory decision making and a shift in power base and control
