Week 1 - What is Health Promotion?

Question 1

What is Agency?

Answer 1

• The capacity of individuals to act independently and make free choices

Question 2

What is Structure?

Answer 2

• Patterned arrangements that influence or limit choices available

Question 3

What do most health theories and perspectives include?

Answer 3

• Extent to which human behaviour is determined by social structure

Question 4

What is referred to as agency and determinism?

Answer 4

• the key debate in sociology over the extent to which human behaviour is determined by social structure.

Question 5

What does health inequalities refer to?

Answer 5

• Differences in the health of individuals or groups

Question 6

Is health inequality measureable?

Answer 6

YES

Question 7

What is a Health Inequity?

Answer 7

• Specific type of health inequality that denotes an unjust difference in health

Question 8

What is Intersectionality?

Answer 8

• Idea that one needs to examine how various biological, cultural, and social categories interact on multiple levels that lead to oppression and inequality

Question 9

What is the medical definition of health?

Answer 9

• Normal physical state
• free of physical and mental disease or pain

Question 10

What is the academic definition of health?

Answer 10

• The interplay of biological, psychological, and social aspects of the person life.

Question 11

What is the World Health Organization’s definition of Health?

Answer 11

• A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
• Not merely the absence of disease and infirmity

Question 12

What is the Indigenous Perspective on health?

Answer 12

• Living in total harmony with nature and having the ability to survive under exceedingly difficult circumstances

Question 13

What are common amongst the definitions of health?

Answer 13

• Socially constructed
• Change over time and across cultures
• Represents the knowledge base, values, and priorities of different constituents or stakeholders

Question 14

What was the definition of health according to the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 14

• Healthy is seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living.

Question 15

How did the Ottawa Charter focus on health as a resources?

Answer 15

Inequal
- distribution
- access
- ability to achieve

Question 16

What does the Ottawa Charter suggest for an approach to health?

Answer 16

• Collectively work towards conditions that reduce health inequities and health inequalities

Question 17

Describe health as a process

Answer 17

• Health is not static
• Constant negotiation of circumstances towards better or lesser health
• Aim for best possible health given the context