HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Health Promotion
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Include adequate food and energy supplies; good opportunities for education, employment, and housing and efficient community services. Community should provide health promotion and education programs, health and medical services, and protection from environmental and occupational hazards. Individuals by obtaining an education that includes a knowledge about health and disease and the history of disease of others in one"s family. Wearing a safety belt, avoiding sun exposure, and eating healthy. Include the provision of mass screening for chronic diseases, case-finding measures, and the provision of adequate health personnel, equipment and facilities for the community. Individuals personal screenings, self-examination of skin for abnormal moles and testes for lumps that could be cancerous. Include adequate emergency medical personnel, services, and facilities to meet the needs of those citizens for whom primary and secondary preventive measures were unsuccessful: ambulance services, hospitals, surgeons, nurses. Health care in the us focuses mostly on tertiary prevention.
