NURS 124 Chapter 2: Week 2 - Canadian Health Care & Perspectives
18 Jan 2019
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The ability to realize aspirations and satisfy needs. Positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources. Disease: an objective state of ill health (e. g. type ii diabetes, hypertension) Illness: a subjective experience of ill health (e. g. diabetes sufferers can feel well despite their disease) Behavioural approach - lalonde study (1970) shifted from a medical approach to also emphasising a behavioral approach. *cons: fails in to take in how an individual fits into their environment, too much focus on behaviors, which leads to blaming. Socio-environmental approach - health is tied closely to social structures such as poverty, unhealthy home environments. Health determinants: defined as lifestyle, environment, human biology and the organisation of health care (responsibility of the individual) Children are more likely to have chronic disease. Ottawa charter - the process of enabling people to increase empowerment and improve their health, emphasises health promotion and socio-environmental health aspects (prerequisites for health)
