Definition Flashcards
(48 cards)
define Health Promotion
the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
the means of health promotion action (5)
Build healthy Public Policy Create Supportive Environments Strengthen Community Action Develop Personal Skills Reorient Health Services Moving into the Future
How to meet the goal to meet the complete physical, mental and social well-being?
an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment.
What are the underlying patterns of inequities?
Social class Gender Racism Poverty Educational status Underlying power, status and access to resources.
define public health
WHO: the art and
science of preventing disease, prolonging
life and promoting health through the
organized efforts of society
name one QC institute in public health
Le Programme national de santé
publique (PNSP)
core function of public health
health assessment, health surveillance, health promotion, health protection, injury and disease prevention
what does mean advocate, enable, mediate in the health promotion action?
Advocate: Health promotion action aims at making political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioural and biological factors favourable through advocacy for health.
Enable: Enable the fullest health potential to achieve equity in health.
Mediate: Professional and social groups and health personnel have a major responsibility to mediate between differing interests ( the local needs, social, cultural and economic systems) in society for the pursuit of health.
What is nutrition care process model? 4 steps
nutrition assessment &re-assessment\
Nutrition diagnosis
nutrition intervention
nutrition monitoring and evaluation
What is Nudge Theory
any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in predictable ways without restricting any options or significantly changing their economic incentives such as time or money.
What is hot state and cold state? in nudging theory
hot state: automatic. Ex: when individuals respond impulsively to immediate stimuli, this si hot state of thinking. (from reading)
cold state: reflective. ex: when you are not hungry so that you have
the goal of nudging
to make ppl making healthier choices; implement low-no-cost changes; increase assess, selection/sales of healthy choices; create healthier eating environments; reduce chronic disease, healthcare costs.
the public health history is from whom? and what he did?
John Snow
Careful mapping of cholera
cases in East London during
cholera epidemic of 1854
what are the six eras in the evolution of public health
- health protection
- miasma control
- contagion control
- preventive medicine
- primary health care
- health promotion (now)
regarding Lalonde Report, the four major health fields mainly determining health are?
- lifestyle
- environment
- health care organization
- human biology
what is health promotion approach
Comprehensive action strategies are needed to influence the underlying factors and conditions that determine health Consistent with a socioecological model.
what is PHP (4 +1)
Population Health Promotion (PHP)
1. improve the health of the population ACTION must be taken on a
full range of health determinants.
2. Examines interaction among a complex set of Individual level and
Collective level determinants.
- helps us understand the multiple contexts the
INFLUENCE of healthy eating - help identify the means to promote healthy
eating through a wide variety of strategies
APPLICATION PHP
DETERMINE:
2 INDIVIDUAL LEVEL determinants that influence the
healthy eating recommendation you were given
DETERMINE:
3 COLLECTIVE LEVEL determinants that influence
the healthy eating recommendation you were given
Individual: recommend to have a half plate of vegetables for every meal. recommend to drink 8 cups of water throughout a day.
collective level:
economic determinant— reduce taxation/price on healthy food choice
social determinant —– culture/tradition food protection, organize dinner to eat with others together
what is the prevention paradox? and why?
most people will not be
motivated by health education
- People are motivated by benefits that are visible,
early and likely. - big action with Small changes
- Health benefits may be real, but are delayed and may
come to only a few who seek them
explain the bell curve shift in terms of population strategy
in order to remove the high risk group to a normal range, the intervention has to apply on the whole population and shift the entire distribution.
when needs population strategy
of medicine
wherever risk
is widely diffuse in
the whole population
what is the whitehall study?
?
why use healthy behavior theories?
-help explain behavior
-Guide how to develop more effective
ways to influence
and change behaviors.
- facilitate our practice of
planning and evaluating health
interventions
def. healthy behavior theories
a set of interrelated concepts, definitions, and
propositions that present a systematic view of
situations by specifying relations among variables,
in order to explain and predict the situations
