Health Sciences 3290A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Public Health, Atheroma, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
25 Apr 2018
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Ottawa charter the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health (1986) Values: empowerment process through which people gain greater control over the decisions and actions affecting their health , three conditions that contribute to empowerment: (1) social networks (2) community participation (3) community competence, positive impacts of empowerment: Increased levels of social support: enhanced coping capacities, decreased susceptibility to illness. Module #2: milestones in the history of health promotion. Heart disease biomedical: causes hypertension, family history, hypercholesterolemia, solutions medication, low salt/low cholesterol, dietary regimen. Heart disease socio-environmental: causes low income/poverty, poor living conditions, social determinant inequalities, social isolation, discrimination, social-environmental stress, lack of education, solutions policy change, advocacy, community mobilization, self-help/mutual aid, intersectoral collaboration, removing barriers to health. What is a theory: a systematic way of understanding events or situations. Interdisciplinary drawn from behavioural and social sciences, borrowing heavily from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, marketing, and political science.
