Test 3 Flashcards
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What is included in program planning?
Health promotion principles
Health education and lesson plans
Prevention theories
Development of public health measures
What is defined as a broad concept that refers to the process of enabling people and communities to increase their control over the determinants of health, and, therefore, to improve their own health?
Health Promotion
What does health promotion involve?
Informing and motivating people to adopt health behaviours
Making people aware of health ideas and concepts
Creating environments that enable people to increase control over and improve their current and future health
Is health promotion the same as disease prevention and health education?
No
How is health promotion different from disease prevention and health education?
Different constructs with different goals and strategies
What are the goals of health promotion?
Health and wellness
Is health promotion positively oriented?
Yes
Health promotion involves a ____ approach to achieving health through _____, _______, and _____.
Comprehensive
Education
Health services
Lifestyle
What influences health?
Peace
Shelter
Education
Food
Income
A stable ecosystem
Sustainable resources
Social justice and equity
Health promotion actions intend to alter an individiual’s environment in a way that will
Improve health regardless of individual actions or to enable individuals to take advantage of preventive and treatment procedures by removing barriers
Dental hygiene care can be thought of as a continuum of care that includes
Health protection
Health education
Disease prevention
What are the components of health promotion campaigns?
Health protection
Health education
Disease prevention
What is health protection?
Regulation
Legislation
Policy change
What is health education aimed at?
Influencing individual’s behaviour
What is disease prevention?
Services aimed at reducing risk of disease development
True or False: Disease prevention is negatively oriented.
True
What are the three basic health promotion strategies from WHO?
- Advocating for health
- Enabling people to achieve their health potential
- Mediating different social interests in the persuit of health
What are 5 actions to build the WHO’s health promotion strategies?
- Build healthy public policies
- Create supportive environments for health
- Strengthen community actions for health
- Develop personal skills
- Reorient health services
What are the aspects of health promotion?
Advocacy
Efforts to change organizations, policies, and environments
Political considerations
Ethical responsibilities
What are the outcomes of health promotion?
Reduced incidence and severity of disease
Improved health
Increased demand for care, use of services and preventive self care measures
What are the two theories that support the philosophy of health promotion?
Mandala of Health (Hancock’s)
Health Promotion Framework (Achieving Health for All, 1986)
Who designed Mandala of Health and when?
Trevor Hancock and Fran Perkins in 1985
What is the Mandala of Health?
A framework for understanding health in a holistic way. It redesigns the earlier “Health Field Concept” by recognizing health as influenced by multiple factors, not just medical care or personal behavior