Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Victim Blaming, Participaction, Physical Culture

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

Document Summary

Milestones in the history of health promotion: health promotion emerges as a distinct concept in the early 20th century. Enduring strategies: education encouraging individuals to adopt healthy behaviours, healthy public policy at the community level. 1946: concept of hp was redefined prereqs for health (decent standard of living, good labour conditions, education, physical culture, rest and recreation) 1974: lalonde report health as a produ(cid:272)t of lifestyle, (cid:271)iology, e(cid:374)v(cid:859)t, health(cid:272)are orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) I(cid:374) re(cid:272)e(cid:374)t years, the (cid:858)lifestyle(cid:859) approa(cid:272)h has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:272)riti(cid:272)ized: Promotes victim blaming, ignores social and economic barriers to making healthy choices, only accounts for factors that people have control over.