Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.1: Health Promotion, Victim Blaming, System On A Chip
15 Apr 2016
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Introduction to health education, disease prevention, & health promotion. Hp: health as a positive and multidimensional concept, aimed at the population in its total environment, concerns a network of issues, non-professional organizations. Dp: health as absence of disease, aimed at high risk groups, concerns a specific pathology, one-shot strategy. He is a planned learning experience to facilitate voluntary change in behaviour. He concerned with health directed behaviour for disease prevention or further disease progression. He: informing people of risks, allow them to make decision. Hp concerned with moving beyond tidy boundaries of health institutions to focus on sdh (health institutions have very little to do with what influences our health, only get help when it"s too late) Health promotion draws on the components of life that relate to the health of populations, we must look at sectors other than health institutions to promote health. Emergence of hp from he to target lifestyle. He historically successful in public health campaigns (immunization)
