Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marc Lalonde, Population Health, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion
2 Nov 2015
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Who: health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The planned change of health-related lifestyles and life conditions through a variety of individual and environmental strategies (rootman & o"neill, 2012) Society is receiving a fall grading when it comes to health a lot of things that we are doing are making us unhealthy. Shift in working patterns from the field to the desk. Catalysts are how we live our health practices we used to be active and do things to keep us physically active, to being lazy. Food choices are becoming less natural. using fast food and larger portion sizes. Larger portions have become the norm. getting used to larger portions decline in physical activity physical activity in leisure time does not happen very commonly very low for both, slightly lower for women.
