NURS103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Medicine Wheel, Primary Nursing
16 Dec 2017
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3 approaches to health: medical health = no illness, behavioural individualistic; related to lifestyle, socio-environmental wellness w regards to physical, emotional, mental. Self actualizing stable environment, with no barriers to health. This document made the most difference cause it got more air time. Truth and reconciliation document aboriginals have the least health outcomes in canada most needy: mother nature at centre, wholistic, life is balanced, everything is interrelated. Determinants: health equity treating people fairly all people should have access to the determinants of health fairly regards to resources, money, power, social justice equal or fair distribution of resources. Have to look at and recognize the disadvantages of people groups. Have to look at root causes of the disadvantages (vulnerable and harm reduction). Need for social or political action in order to eliminate the inequities. Phc: difference b/w phc, primary care, primary nursing, primary health care 1978 umbrella term for health promotion, community development, protection, etc.
