HE100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Listeria, Stress Management, Lung Cancer
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Conceptual framework for sustained acion designed to improve the health of canadians: improve overall health outcomes of canadians, reduce health dispariies. Focus on: prevenion of chronic disease, eforts to address signiicant risk factors. Support canadian health care system: reduce burden, improve eiciency and sustainability. Populaion health strategy: must address living, working condiions, consider lifestyle choices within content of social, economic and environmental inluences. Condiions within society at large must support individual health behaviours. Targets by 2015: 20% increase in proporion of canadians who eat healthy, engage in regular pa, healthy body weight. Determinants of health: the range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors that inluence health status. The lalonde report (1974: lifestyle, environment, human biology, health services. Social and economic environment personal health behaviours physical environment . Socioeconomic status (ses): relaive economic and social ranking potent predictor of health, well being: ses includes income, educaion and employment, low ses associates with poorer health.
