L2 Flashcards
(12 cards)
Health promotion
Science and art of helping people change their lifestyles to move toward a state of optimal health
-supportive envs. Has the greatest impact in producing lasting change
Triad of health promotion
- health education
- health protection
- prevention
Primary prevention
- preventive, proactive
- targets whole pop, high risk groups, healthy individuals
- goal = control modifiable risk factors to avert dz
- alters risk factors prior to dz onset
Secondary prevention
- proactive, REACTIVE
- targets selected individuals, populations
- goal = detext dz early before CS manifests
- SCREENING, early intervention
- early dx and tx
- disability limitation
Screening
Presumptive ID of unrecognized dz or defect by the application of tests, exams, or other procedures that can be applied rapidly
Chars. Of diseases we screen for
- important PH problem
- detectable preclinical phase
- progresses from preclinical to clinical dz
- treatable
- better outcome if detected/tx early
What makes screening effective
Reliability
Applicability
Acceptability
Validity (Se, Sp)
Transtheoretical Model stages of change
- Pre-contemplation
- Contemplation
- Preparation
- Action
–> relapse - Maintenance
Exit
Circular model
Tertiary prevention
REACTIVE
- targets patients, pops
- control existing dz. to prevent serious complications
- aims to maintain, improve, diminish risk factors, protect health of public, stop future events
Quality of life
Multidimensional construct that includes “performance and enjoyment of social roles, physical health, intellectual functioning, emotional state, life satisfaction, and well-being”
Health related quality of life
Extent to which a person’s expectations are affected by a medical condition or its tx
Ideology of health promotion
- good health is universally shared objective
- there is agreement on what being healthy means
- scientific consensus about which behaviors facilitate good health
- only challenge for health experts is to find ways of helping ppl maximize their health
