Lecture 11 - Health Promotion Flashcards
Why are good strong educational systems linked to health?
- Transportation systems (promotes healthy lifestyle – walking)
- Environment – home settings depending on where you live, if it has clean air, water around (lakes), green trees
- Employment and working conditions – blue collar jobs (manual labour: +++ risk of injury) as opposed to white collar jobs (Stress-related conditions)
Health promotion:
Process of enabling people to increase control and to improve their health. To reach a complete state of social, physical and mental well-being
Health promotion (bullet points):
- Taking control over their own health
- Ex: new programs that exist with disabilities, immigrants, etc
- Unsure if it is possible to actually achieve a “complete” state of well-being; can you really be content with what’s around you
Health is a resource for everyday life….
it is not the objective of living
Values in Health Promotion (according to WHO)
- Equity and social justice
- Holistic definition of health
- Empowers people and builds individual and collective capacity
- Seeks to enhance people’s social participation
What is primary prevention:
focuses on population as a whole, protects healthy people from developing the disease or experiencing an injury in the first place
What are examples of primary prevention?
education re: good nutrition/dangers of tobacco
education on seatbelt/helmet use
regular tests to monitor for risk factors for illness
immunizations
controlling potential hazards in workplace
What is secondary prevention?
Focuses on individual who has been diagnosed with an illness or has risk factors. Point is to slow the progress of disease in its earliest stages. Another point of this is to limit disability and preventing re-injury.
What is an example of secondary prevention?
Telling ppl to take aspirin to prevent a second heart attack, recommending reg exam/tests in ppl with known risk factors, providing modified work for good suiters, working with schoolteachers to develop programs for kids with ADD/ADHD OR making a home program for ADL and IADL for young moms with MS
What is tertiary prevention?
You already have the disease. For rehabilitating radicalized individuals and building resilience, helping people manage complicated, long-term health problems such as diabetes, arthritis, cancer. Point is to prevent any further deterioration (enhance QofL).
What are examples of tertiary prevention?
cardiac or stroke rehab, chronic pain management, patient support groups, work in palliative care, work for teens with CP
Health promotion in OT:
at the core of our profession is “occupation” and “health promotion” is @ the centre of it
Role of OT in Health promotion:
- Emphasize occupation as an essential element of health promotion
- Promote healthy lifestyle
- Provide interventions
- Prevent dysfunction (inequity of no participation)
HP efforts cannot just focus on one intervention @ the individual level
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OT can implement HP on programs at different levels (macro – community, government, policy, micro – targeting individuals in primary, secondary and tertiary levels)
What are the dimensions of experience?
- Activating mind, body and senses
- Taking care of yourself
- Contributing to community and society
- Connecting with others
- Building security/prosperity
- Developing/expressing identity
- Developing capabilities and potential
- Experiencing pleasure and joy
What are the activity patterns?
Engagement, Meaning, Routine, Balance, Choice
(EM, RBC)
What are the two extremes of “Engagement”?
Poorly engaged (poor health/mental health, social problems) …….. overly engaged (fatigue and burnout)
What are the two extremes of “Meaning”?
Loss of meaning (mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism, anxiety) …….. Too much meaning (ignoring, other important occupation)
What are the two extremes of “Balance”?
Not enough time spent or too little variation ……… too much time spent or too many variations
What are the two extremes of “Routine”?
Disorganized routines ……… Inflexible routines
What are the two extremes of “Choice”?
Lack of choice (disempowerment), apathy) ………… too much choice (anxiety, stress)
What are the social and personal forces of the “Do, Live, Well”?
Personal: age, gender, education, socioeconomic, health, culture, ethnicity
Social: politics, cost, environment, accessibility, rules, investment
