HST209H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Community Mobilization, Health Education
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The misconception that if i am not physiologically sick then i am healthy. How do we address this issue: addressing education, stigma, and access in the community, availability of medication. Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. A recourse for everyday life with fundamental requirements: peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable eco-system, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity. Definitions of health shape how health is improved (or not) Health as a product of range of determinants of health. How do systems of governance and economics affect health. Community mobilization: understanding of health are shaped historically and economically. Historical analysis; looking history as an indicator of the future. E. g. , demon rum; rum itself saloon moral weakness disease; alcoholism. Roles of the state: allocates, mediates, intervenes. If they are going to smoke we might as well benefit from it. Usually covered under private insurance (benefits with job)
