Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Needle Exchange Programme, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Condom
3 Oct 2017
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Otta(cid:449)a charter"s definition of health promotion: the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health. Values that guide how health promotors work to address health issues: Empowerment, social justice/equity, inclusion, respect: empowerment- process through which people gain greater control over the decisions and actions affecting their health. Increased levels of social support, enhanced coping capacities, increased life satisfaction, decreased susceptibility to illness: social justice/equity equitable access to food, income, employment, shelter, education and other factors are needed to maintain good health. Inclusion can be excluded due to: poverty, ill health, gender, race, disability, lack of education (work with marginalized groups) Ottawa charter action areas: build healthy public polity, create supportive environments, strengthen community action, develop personal skills, re-orient health services. Settings in which health promotion takes place: home and family (usually primary influence of shaping who we are, health behaviour) Other approaches: population health, the health of a population, measured by health status indicators.
