Health Promotion is rooted in... Answer: Health education
They have differences that make them unique
Do we need Health Promotion more or Disease Prevention? Answer: We need both
Key Pointers on Health Promotion Answer: - Health = positive & multidimensional
- Part...
Health Promotion is rooted in... Answer: Health education
They have differences that make them unique
Do we need Health Promotion more or Disease Prevention? Answer: We need both
Key Pointers on Health Promotion Answer: - Health = positive & multidimensional
- Participatory model of health
- Aimed at the population and its total environment
- Concerns a network of issues
- Diverse & complementary strategies
- Facilitating & enabling approaches
- Incentive measures offered to the population
- Changes in a person's status & their environment sought by the program
- Non-professional organizations, civic groups, local, municipal, regional and national governments
necessary for achieving the goal of health promotion
Key Pointers on Disease Prevention Answer: - Health = absence of disease
- Medical model
- Aimed mainly at high-risk groups in the population
- Concerns a specific pathology
- One-shot strategy
,- Directive and persuasive strategies
- Directive measures enforced in target groups
- Focused mostly on individuals & groups of subjects
- Preventive programs considered the affairs of professional groups from health disciplines
Key Points about Health Education Answer: - A planned learning experience to facilitate voluntary
change in behaviour
- Solves discrete and immediate problems of importance to individuals (e.g. family planning,
immunization programs or screening programs)
- HE is concerned with health directed behaviour for disease prevention or further disease progression
- More related to health directed behaviour or disease prevention rather than lifestyle changes
HP is concerned with moving beyond the tidy boundaries of health institutions to focus on... Answer:
determinants of health, because so much of what concerns health happens in other sectors like schools,
industries, social services, etc.
How did Health Promotion emerge from Health Education? Answer: - Health education efforts have
been quite successful in public health campaigns (e.g. HPV immunization programs through education
and self-care initiatives).
- Education has an ability to address lifetime habits or lifestyle.
- Became clear to HE leaders that sectors and new forces like economic and regulatory measures need
to join together to make multiple social forces strong enough to bear on the problems, concerns and
conditions of lifestyle; must influence health of population!
- Health educators became aware of this need for positive approaches in health education.
- Self-evident that HE could only develop its full potential if supported by structural measures (e.g. legal
measures, environmental measures)
At the heart of health promotion is... Answer: lifestyle
, Lifestyle Answer: An enduring pattern of behaviour or socialization. Patterns of choices made from
alternatives available to people according to their socioeconomic status and the ease by which they are
allowed to choose certain choices over others
In health promotion, do we focus on determinants of health or do we measure and explain disease at
submolecular units? Answer: focus on determinants of health
Why are we shifting away from the submolecular level? Answer: Reducing ill health to submolecular
levels has been great for the medical model, but at the expense of neglecting the whole person. It does
have an improved medical ability to intervene with heightened precision and effectiveness but it does
not look at social, behavioural and cultural influences on health
In the medical field, are incentives stacked in favour of high tech or social, cultural and behavioural
aspects of care? Answer: Incentives stacked in favour of high tech, thus, HP services suffer in clinical
setting leading the medical model to be disease treatment rather than disease prevention
What are the determinants of health? Answer: Factors and influences that shape the health of
individuals
- Income & Social Status
- Social Support Networks
- Education
- Employment & Working Conditions
- Social Environment
- Physical Environment
- Gender
- Culture
- Personal Health Practices & Coping Skills
- Healthy Child Development
- Health Services
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