PSYC 251 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Jake Epp, Health Promotion, Essential Medicines
21 Oct 2016
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Determinant: an element or factor that influences or causes something else. Behaviour: observable activity of a human or animal. Health education: any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities the opportunity to acquire information and the skills needed to make quality health decisions . Health promotion: any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms that support actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups, and communities . Health: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not just the absence of disease or infirmity - who. Spiritual: self-actualization, life lives up to values system. Lalonde report: received immediate worldwide attention because it was the first document by the central government of a major developed country that advocated for the importance of investing resources beyond health services to improve the health of a population.
