Health Sciences 2250A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Health Literacy, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Health Promotion
16 Sep 2016
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There are different definitions depending on how you look at health. The important ones are: ottawa charter definition: a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities : who definition: health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity . The common idea is that it is an integration of an organism"s condition well being and functioning: health promotion. The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health. The planned change of health related lifestyles and conditions through a variety of individual and environmental strategies. This focuses on planned change and is more specific: social determinants of health. The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age, and the systems put in place to deal with illness. Follows you through your entire life: empowerment.
