HLSC 3820U Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Antimicrobial Resistance
Document Summary
Enabling people to control and improve their health. Strengthens skills and capabilities of individuals and takes action directed towards changing social, environmental, political, and economic conditions to alleviate their impact on health. Health is created in context of life so where people live, love, work, and play. Critical point because it acknowledges the environment in which we live and doesn"t just focus on health in health care centres. Prevention actions, measures, interventions, programs, policies, and legislation that seek to stop the development or progression of disease and improve, maintain, and restore health related to quality of life. Five levels of prevention: primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary. Primordial prevention conditions, actions, measures to minimize hazards to health. Inhibit establishment of things that are known to increase disease. Helps decreased incidence of serious motor related injuries and death. Preventative interventions that stop occurrence of alterations to health and prevent disease. Every spent saves in health care costs.
