MEDI231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Promotion, Physiocracy, Smallpox
6 Aug 2018
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Gain an understanding of the history and milestones in health promotion. Ancient greece: commonly thought health promotion began in the 1980s, medical and philosophical documents from 4th and 6th century, greeks developed the physiocratic school of thought. 19th century: public health measures mostly report european, british and north american. Inoculation against small pox in india and china before the christian era. What is heath promotion: process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health, moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide rage of social and environmental interventions. Who: major voice in shaping health promotion, doctrine of health promotion documents are a source of reference for health promotion and assimilated into professional training, holistic training 1977 launch of health for all. Health for all: (cid:862)health is to (cid:271)e (cid:271)rought (cid:449)ithin rea(cid:272)h of e(cid:448)eryone in a gi(cid:448)en (cid:272)ountry(cid:863, moves focus away from individual.
