NURS 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Health Belief Model, Multispectral Image, Senescence
6 Nov 2017
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Week 6: health promotion and behavior change lecture slide 1: Nature of health: relationship to illness, disease and wellness. Positively defined: health and illness viewed as distinct but interrelated concepts. Who: a state of complete physical and mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infinity. Health is defined as: stability, actualization, actualization and stability. Health as stability: maitence of physiological, functional and social norms. Health as actualization: of human potential, health and wellness often used interchangeably. Medical approach: stability orientation medical interventions restore health health problems - defined as physiological risk factors health care system paramount to ensuring population health focused on treatment of disease. Lalonde report 1974: 1st to acknowledge inadequacy of biomedical model. 1978 health promotion directorate aimed to decrease behavior risk factors. Lalonde report: criticized for deflecting attention from environment health related behaviors could not be separated from social contexts social and environment factors intertwined poor environments are a risk to health.
