HLTH 331 Study Guide - Final Guide: Health System, World Health Organization, Health Promotion
26 Oct 2018
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Describe varying perspectives and definitions of health and quality of life. Impact of health problems and health promotion on qol indicators. Perceived physical and/or mental well-being over time. Some emerging quality of life (qol) indicators. Health = a state of complete physical, mental and social well0being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. Human biology = bodily systems, genetics, maturation. Health care organization = health care delivery. The socio-ecological approach can promote understanding and common ground among professionals and in communities. Framework/model used in health to understand influences at a social-ecological level . Health education & promotion have become valued components of the socio-ecological approach to promoting health and quality of life in communities and populations. Understand difference between health promotion, public health and health education. Any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms that support action and conditions of living conduce to the health of individuals, groups and communities.
