PH 216 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Health Promotion, Victim Blaming, Community Organizing

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PH 216
• Professor: Amy McDonald

Document Summary

During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic interest in societal interest in preventing disability and death in the us by changing individual behaviors linked to the risk of contracting chronic diseases. Some critics have accused proponents of lifestyle interventions of promoting a victim-blaming ideology by neglecting the importance of social influences on health and disease. Within the private sector, this interest in health promotion has led to the extensive development and implementation of health promotion programs in the workplace, increases in the marketing of healthy foods, and increased societal interest in fitness. In the public sector, this interest has lead to national campaigns to control hypertension and cholesterol, the development and implementation of community-wide health promotion programs by both governmental agencies and private foundations, and the establishment of the. 1990 objectives for the nation in health promotion.