L13 Keeping Healthy

Question 1

What is health education?

Answer 1

Strategies for promoting the most effective ways of TEACHING healthy living via effective communication

Question 2

What is Health Promotion?

Answer 2

Process of enabling/ helping people to increase/ exert control and improve their health

Question 3

Give two examples of health promotion

Answer 3

Cervical cancer screening and organ donation

Question 4

What is health discourses?

Answer 4

Powerful persuaders to achieve many professional, governmental and commercial ends

Question 5

What is an example of health discourses?

Answer 5

Label prepackaged food to force out food that claims to be health but is in fact unhealthy

Question 6

What are the 4 key commitments for health promotion?

Answer 6

1. Central to global government agenda
2. Core responsibility for all of government (ensure that structures and systems are in place)
3. A key focus of communities and civil society
4. A requirement for good corporate practice

Question 7

What harmful effects need to be addressed for global governance of health?

Answer 7

1) Trade 
2) Products (e.g. plastic bottles cause environmental impact  > health impact, but the manufacturers are not responsible for the damage > externalities) 3) Services 
4) Marketing strategies

Question 8

HP must become an integral part of?

Answer 8

1) Domestic and foreign policy 
2) International relations, including in situations of war and conflict (e.g. in Afghanistan for minerals, in Iran for oil)

Question 9

Empowerment is a key component of health promotion. What is it ?

Answer 9

= process of giving people power over their own lives, particularly in relation to health choices

Question 10

What does empowerment require?

Answer 10

Knowledge, information, etc. > informed choice

Question 11

Give an example where knowledge has failed to achieve empowerment?

Answer 11

Health warnings on cigarettes help warn people of smoking risks (e.g. health impact), but people still smoke

Question 12

What is the alternative requirement of empowerment apart from knowledge?

Answer 12

Legislation

Question 13

Give two examples of legislation

Answer 13

Seat belt legislation Tobacco sales legislation

Question 14

What are the other 4 components of Health promotion apart from empowerment?

Answer 14

Opportunities
State policies
Legislation
Resources

Question 15

How does opportunity contribute to health promotion?

Answer 15

Make alternative accessible so people can make informed choices

e.g. alternatives with different feasibility and affordability

Question 16

What is an alternative to healthy lifestyle approach to health promotion?

Answer 16

Community developed approach

Question 17

What is good about community development approach to health promotion?

Answer 17

User-defined, initiated and benefiting

Question 18

Give an example of government policy in action?

Answer 18

Control overuse of antibiotics

Question 19

Which of all the components of HP is most important in modern history?

Answer 19

Legislation

Question 20

Give some examples of legislation in action.

Answer 20

Food, tobacco, water regulation and control

Air pollution standards

Question 21

Why is adequate resources a part of health promotion?

Answer 21

Used for health promotion activities

Question 22

Which two charters have been signed for health promotion?

Answer 22

Ottawa and Bangkok charter

Question 23

What are some objectives of the Ottawa Charter?

Answer 23

Build healthy public policy
Strengthen community action
Develop personal health skills
Recognise importance and motivation for health

Question 24

What are some objectives of the Bangkok charter? (AIBRP)

Answer 24

Advocate health based on human rights

Invest in policies, actions to address determinants of health

Build capacity for policy development, HP practice and research

Regulate and legislate for protection and equal opportunity for health

Partner and build alliances to create sustainable actions

Question 25

Goals of health promotion approaches: 2.

Answer 25

Improve choice and encourage community to opt for healthier choices Compress morbidity and mortality (avoidable, premature, disability)

Question 26

What is the result of the goals of HP?

Answer 26

Health to become resource for life not barrier to life

Question 27

How can doctors keep others healthy?

Answer 27

Empowerment at the individual and community level through individual patient care (not only policy and community action)

Question 28

How else can doctors practice health promotion?

Answer 28

Prevention rather than cure is key

Question 29

How to keep yourself healthy?

Answer 29

``` Go vegetarian Ensure enough exercise and good diet No smoking Control day to day actions Optimism and social life ```