NURS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marc Lalonde, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Canada Health Act
20 Oct 2016
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Health quiz sept 30 related to metaparadigm. Recap & vocab: metaparadigm, healthy who, medical approach to health, behavioural approach to health, socioenvironmental approach to health, ottawa charter, epp report. Four metaparadigm concepts: person, environment, health, nursing. Historical approaches to health in canada *know definitions* Health problems defined as physiological risk factors. Health minister marc lalonde commissioned a report (lalonde report) Report shifted emphasis from medical to behavioural approach to health. Health field concept included: lifestyle, environment, human biology, organization of health care. Responsibility for health on the individual (health promotion strategies) Lisa semple september 16, 2016 nursing 1111: this was the first modern government report in the western world to acknowledge that strictly biomedical health care system was inadequate. Studies began to show that lifestyle changes were being made only by well-education, well- employed and higher income canadians. Lalonde report did not focus enough on ones environment. Health became the responsibility of the provinces.
