Children's Health and Health Promotion Flashcards
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What is health promotion?
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- Any planned activity designed to enhance health or prevent disease
2
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What is health affected by?
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- Genetics
- Access
- Lifestyle
- Environment
3
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Which of the factors affecting health are influenced by health promotion?
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- Access
- Lifestyle
- Environment
4
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What are the theories of health promotion action?
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LATER
5
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What is health education?
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- An activity involving communication with individuals or groups aimed at changing knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour in a direction which is conducive to improvements in health
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What is health protection?
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- Involves collective activities directed at factors which are beyond the control of the individual
- Health protection activities tend to be regulations or policies, or voluntary codes of practice aimed at the prevention of ill health or the positive enhancement of well-being
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Why is health promotion relevant?
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8
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What is empowerment?
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- The generation of power in those individuals and groups which previously considered themselves to be unable to control situations or act on the basis of their choices
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What are the benefits of empowerment (for an individual)?
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- An ability to resist social pressure
- An ability to utilise effective coping strategies when faced by an unhealthy environment
- A heightened consciousness of action
10
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The cycle of change
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11
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What are some examples of health promotion in a primary care setting?
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- Planned: Posters, Chronic disease clinics, vaccinations, QOF (much of the QOF work is ongoing despite this no longer being necessary for the GP contract as it seen as good clinical care). Also would include things like travel clinic and then disease prevention measures such as smears, bowel screening
- Opportunistic: Advice within consultation e.g. re smoking, diet, taking BP, Alcohol brief intervention
- Delivered by the GP but also increasingly by the practice nursing team.
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What are some examples of health promotion the government can give?
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- Legislation: Legal age limits, Smoking ban, Health and safety, Clean air act, Highway code
- Economic: Tax on cigarettes and alcohol
- Education: HEBS (Health Education Board for Scotland)
