Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Health Promotion, Healthy Choice, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jeannie Samuel

Document Summary

Offers a research and action framework that emphasizes the complex interactions between people, groups, and their environments (rather than each of these factors in isolation) In health promotion more social-ecological in nature and focuses more centrally on the social, organizational, and cultural components of the environment o. About thinking about health promotion in the various different spheres that it takes place. Planners and practitioners are urged to design interventions and programs that will integrate people- focused efforts to modify health behaviors with interventions that will enhance the numerous dimensions of the environment: physical, social, and cultural o. Such complex intervention packages are touted as having the potential for greater success than traditional individual-focused health education interventions. In the beginning of health promotion, individual direct behavior change type of interventions, but in the recent years there is greater emphasis on the other broader pieces of health promotion. The ecological discourse re-emerged only recently in public health with the who"s european regional.