Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Promotion, Herd Immunity, Health Education

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

Document Summary

Intro: health promotion is rooted in health education, hp roots in he but are not the same. B/c health promotion draws on the components of life that relate to the health of populations, we must look at the sectors other than health institutions to promote health. We think of health care taking place in illness care. In reality, so many other things affect health (i. e. clean air, safety, social norms) At the heart of health promotion is: lifestyle, an enduring pattern of behaviour or socialization, focus on sdh, rather than measuring and explaining disease at the submolecular units. Sdh: sdh seek to explain why health status is what it is, looks at health (cid:894)la(cid:272)k of health(cid:895) as a p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)t of a(cid:374) (cid:862)e(cid:395)uatio(cid:374)(cid:863, various factors come together to determine our health. Hp focuses on: advocacy conditions of health favourable through advocacy for health as a resource, enabling focuses on achieving equity in health, mediating demands coordination of sectors.