Module 8 Flashcards
What are the two primary goals of the Pan-Canadian Healthy Living Strategy Framework?
The two primary goals are to reduce health disparities and improve overall health outcomes in each of the areas of emphasis by using a population health approach.
What are major health issues of child and adolescents?
Infant: Atopic dermatitis, Diaper dermatitis
Toddler: Myopia, Astigmatism, dental caries
Preschooler: Measles, Diarrhea, Postural problems
Schoolchild: Otitis esophoria, asthma, warts
Adolescent: Acne vulgaris, hordeolum (stye), lyme disease
How do social determinants, of child and adolescents, influence health indicators, risks and outcomes?
Early childhood development is the most important determinant of health. This is influenced by play time, social development, child care, abuse, low socioeconomic status, social and community environment.
The six areas that have the greatest impact on the health of Canadian children: socioeconomic status and developmental opportunities, abuse and neglect, prenatal risks, mental health and disorders, obesity and unintentional injuries
How can CHNs promote health in the population of children and adolescents?
CHNs have two major roles to fulfill in the area of child and adolescent health:
- Provision of direct services to children and their families: assessment, management of care, education and counselling
- Assessment of the community and the establishment of programs to ensure a healthy environment for its children.
CHNs can advocate for health public policies and initiate development of community programs to provide health breakfast, and food bank programs at higher education institutions.
CHNs can offer health educational programs on nutritious food and physical activity requirements within the community.
What is the Comprehensive School Health Framework?
The Comprehensive School Health Framework (CSHF) has roots in population health, and the WHO 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. This focuses on school children as a population, so the opportunities to access the population and build capacity are plentiful.
CHNs working within this framework recognize that programs focus on helping individual children in the classwork, without acknowledging the importance of the environments within which the children live, as well as the sociopolitical context of those environments, will not be as effective.
What are the 4 cornerstones of the Comprehensive School Health Framework?
The four cornerstones of Comprehensive School Health are social and physical environment, teaching and learning, healthy school policy, and partnerships and services.
What are advantages to children and adolescents maintaining a healthy lifestyle for individual and societal perspective?
Focusing on the health of children increases the chances of future adults who value and practise healthy lifestyles and who are healthier
What are barriers to children and adolescents maintaining a healthy life style?
Being over weight, obesity
Working families, fast-food availability and vending machines, increased plate sizes, decreased physical activity due to increased awareness for child safety, increased sedentary lifestyles, decreased physical activity
Parents often have unrealistic expectations of what children should eat
What are major health issues of Adult men?
Men have a lower life expectancy and a higher mortality rate. Men are at risk for testicular and prostate cancer.
Compared to women men have:
-Fewer episodes of chronic diseases
-More accidents
-Four times greater suicide rates
-Higher amounts of colorectal cancer, lung cancer
What are major health issues of adult women?
Breast Health, Reproductive Issues
Menopause, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Mental Illness, Cancer and Obesity
What are major health issues of older adults?
Chronic and acute illness, minor memory loss, physical changes that come with aging affecting all systems of the body
-Depression, delirium and dementia
How do social determinants, of adult men, influence health indicators, risks and outcomes?
Men are more likely to have extreme forms of social exclusion such as homelessness and substance abuse, more frequently perpetrators of crime, more likely to engage in antisocial behavior and criminal offences, particularly disadvantaged young males.
Education affects access to care and seeking health services, social support networks, income and social status.
How do social determinants, of adult women influence health indicators, risks and outcomes?
Unfortunately, many women do not have access to basic health-related resources. Women generally live longer than men, but are generally less healthy, this gender difference is directly related to poverty. Socioeconomic status and financial stability are an important factor. The education of women is the single most important factor in the improvement in the health of women and their families.
How do social determinants, of older adults, influence health indicators, risks and outcomes?
The influences of the environment and culture on personal development and maturation are substantial and further limit the ability of the CHN to predict how an individual ages physiologically.
Income and social status affect the older adult’s access to care, social support networks are extremely important for this population as they cope with the challenges of aging, genetics and gender effect predisposition to disease
How can CHNs promote health in the population of adult men?
It is important for CHNs to take a preventative focus when working with men.
CHNs should help men explore their health concerns by discussing non health related concerns, as well as problems and promoting prevention.
CHNs can remove physical barrier by separating themselves from the client, using handouts, written information to support verbal instructions, and show a genuine interest in men’s needs.
