PS282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Health Professional
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Lesson 13: prevention & (health promotion) february 23rd, 2016. Following tuesday, you can hand in this thursday"s stsp on health promotion. Even when people do successfully change their high risk behaviours, new people continue to enter the at-risk population to take their place . Main concepts: types of prevention, from individual to environment. Addiction, injection drug use, harm reduction & prevention. Exercise programs, cooking classes, learning to read food labels. Reduce work demands, affordable child care, crime prevention programs. Public transportation, affordable housing near work, urban recreation, food security, food subsidy policies. Server intervention programs with decrease public drunkenness. North america"s first (and only) legal supervised injection site. Lesson 13: prevention & (health promotion) february 23rd, 2016: health canada project, intake room, 12 seat injection room to inject drugs, post-injection room. Services: primary care for treatment of wounds abscesses and other infections, addiction counselling.
