PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Participaction, Health Promotion, Safe Sex
Document Summary
Health promotion: strategies intended to maintain or improve the health of large populations. Focusing on prevention and self-care are hallmarks. Who- the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. Participaction, aimed at increasing canadians" activity levels. Stairway to health: taking the stairs rather than the elevator when at work. Medical level of health promotion: the orientation is disease-based and the goal is disease. Public health level of health promotion: the orientation is behaviour-based and the goal is disease prevention. Socioenviromental level of health promotion: the orientation is toward social change and public health policy. Social determinants of health: factors such as income, social support, education, working conditions, and culture that have a significant effect on health at the population level. Medical: a community might develop a program to help people recover from heart attacks or devote funding to finding a cure for cancer.
