HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Population Ageing, Prescription Drug, Health Promotion
26 Jan 2015
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Healthcare system: the medical and social services that provide healthcare support to canadians. Support that ranges from health promotion, to health maintenance, to long-term chronic care. Medical model: a healthcare model that favors surgery, drug therapy, and rehabilitation through physical therapies with a focus on the treatment of diseases and injuries, usually in the physician"s office, a hospital, or other healthcare institutions. Social model: a healthcare model that includes personal and family counseling, homecare, and adult daycare programs as part of the healthcare system, and that tried to keep older people in their own homes. Long-term care: social and medical services, including formal services. Home or institutional care, and family care, for people who have functional limitations. Health promotion model: a healthcare model that focuses on self-care and preventing disease through lifestyle changes, increased knowledge about healthy behavior, and environmental improvement.
