HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Health Promotion, Breast Cancer Screening, Nayak (Title)
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Conjures up notions of media campaigns, handing out lea ets and generally informing people about the do"s and don"ts of health-related lifestyle behaviour. Co-ordinated community action to ensure a better life. The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health. The sanitary phase (1840) - concentrated on environmental engineering to provide clean water and sewerage, improve housing and working conditions. Personal hygiene phase (1910) - emphasized the education of populations about their cleanliness, personal behaviour and therefore responsibility for their own ill-health and health. Therapeutic phase (1930) - medicalization of public health and strongly associated with the prevention of ill-health through bio-medical interventions such as vaccination and treatment of ill-health through use of antibiotics. A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics.
