What is health? Week 3 Flashcards
what is the contemporary WHO definition of health?
A RESOURCE for everyday life, not the object of living; it is a positive concept, emphasising social and personal resources, as well as physical capabilities.
What is Primary Health Care?
A 'way' of doing things. An approach to policy and health service provision based on : -equity - social justice - empowerment - health worker accountability
It tackles the determinants of health and inequities in health at both individual and population level.
What is Primary Care?
The services and professions that work as the first port of call for patients.
What is Health Promotion?
A planned combination of educational, political, regulatory, and organisational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups or communities
Is health promotion the same as health education?
No
List some perspectives in individual health.
- Relative (to expectations)
- Compared with others
- A ‘means’ rather than an ‘end’
- A personal or moral strength
- A commodity
What are some key characteristics of the way aboriginal people define health?
Consider the social, cultural and emotional wellbeing of the whole community.
Living in a healthy community makes it easier to be healthy.
Cultural identity - community & extended family - balanced ecology
What are some key differences in perspective between individual health and population health?
- Individual vs community
- Behaviour, lifestyle choices & medical care vs changing social & environmental factors
- individual responsibility vs shared responsibility
- seek expertise of the health sector vs many different sectors other than health
Why is it important to understand the multiple meanings of ‘health’?
- health care profs often assume it is an important priority for most
- diverse ways people understand health and its relative importance in their lives
- ‘experts’ and lay people don’t always see health in the same way, which can be at odds with ‘expert’ recommendations, but need to appreciate each person’s perspective on health for them.
Why are health beliefs and values important?
Provide the basis for the things people do to stay healthy/get well.
Influence which sources of advice people value/trust - health care is most effective when it ‘fits with the client’s’ health beliefs & values.
The phrase “working WITH people means working with THEIR beliefs” applies to what?
Person-centred care
What assumption does Healthism make?
That health is a key priority in people’s lives.
It also makes moral judgements about ‘good’ citizens.
Describe individualism and its key assumptions
assumptions: individual responsibility for ill-health & injury.
It obscures the wider social, economic and environmental causes.
NOTE - victim blaming
What is medicalisation?
Ordinary conditions are ‘pathologised’ (defined as disorders requiring medical intervention). Health is the domain of medicine and ‘expert’ health professionals.
