Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Promotion, Hpv Vaccines, Health Education
28 Nov 2017
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Unit 1 note health promotion, health education, and disease prevention in canada. Chapter 1: online health promotion modules through the public health ontario website: module 1 definitions and concepts , module 2 milestones in the history of health promotion , journal article posted online (scarapicchia et al. , 2015) Better control of behavioural risk factors alone could prevent between 40-70% of all premature deaths, one-third of all acute disabilities, and two-thirds of all chronic disabilities . & september 25th, 2017: examples: rehabilitation programs and voluntary vaccinations (hpv vaccine, flu shot, health education is concerned with health directed behaviour for disease prevention or further disease progression. At the heart of health promotion is: lifestyle an enduring pattern of behaviour or socialization, health promotion focuses on the determinants of health, rather than measuring and explaining disease at sub molecular units. Health promotion: broader term than health education, the combination of educational and ecological supports of actions and conditions conducive to health .
