HLTA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Health Promotion, Food Security, Foodborne Illness
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Chapter 10 the physical environment & its influence on. Signified as a shift in the way that health was thought about that has influenced the development of public health & health promotion over the decades. Proposed that health could be improved by addressing four different factors: individual lifestyles, health services, human biology/genetics, environmental influences. Type 3 material environment & allocation of resources. Physical environment (living & working conditions: agriculture & food production, food security having sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy & active life includes having both physical & economic access to food. Available in sufficiently quantity/quality [good food & enough of it] Use being able to handle & cook food in a safe & nutritious way: food dessert neighbourhoods & communities that have limited access to affordable & nutritious foods . Food quantity ex) looking @ daily food bank. Food quality listeria: bacterium that causes food poisoning.
