Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Canada, Needs Assessment, Health Promotion

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

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Better control of behavioral risk factors alone could prevent between 40-70% of all premature deaths, one third of all acute disabilities, and two-thirds of chronic disabilities . Relationship b/w hp & he & dp. No, but general flow of what happened in us is similar to canada (re: ch 1) Intro to health education, disease prevention, & health promotion. Consider differences b/w hp & disease prevention (dp) They have differences that make them unique and thus, not the same as each other. Disease prevention c/f health promotion approach to health. Health promotion is the idea of changing environment and status; looking at how network of systems can be of support of health as a positive concept. Disease prevent is targeted at the absence of disease; looking for root causes. Health education is a planned learning experience to facilitate voluntary in behavior.