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3. What is health?
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• More than just not being sick
• Holistic • Optimal well-being • Multidimensional • Definition evolved |
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4. Total health field concept
• Health is sum of: |
o Environmental events (no control over them)
o Lifestyle (self-created risks and behavior choices, social circumstances [education, income, where we live]) o Human biology (genetics, cannot control) o System of medical care organization (medical care) |
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5. What is public health?
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• Sum of official government efforts to promote, protect, and preserve health of those in community
• Government has fundamental statutory duty to assume health of public, but cannot do it alone |
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7. What is health education?
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learning, knowledge, training, skill development, awareness
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7. What is health promotion?
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science and art of helping people alter their lifestyle to move toward state of optimal health. Try to help people change. Enable people to take control of their health.
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8. Obstacles to health promotion:
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• Packed curriculums in schools
• Directives concerning health education • Inattention of administration • Lack of active community support • Catch 22 situation • Lack of certification requirement • Perception of field as a ‘frill’ • Inadequacy of resources • Encroachment of other disciplines • Competition with more established and better funded public health systems |
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9. Assumptions of health promotion
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• Health status can be changed
• Health diseases are dynamic • Disease theories and principles can be understood • Appropriate prevention strategies can be developed • Many things contribute to health and influence behavior change • Initiating and maintaining change is difficult • Individual responsibility should not be viewed as victim blaming • For behavior change to be permanent, person must be motivated and ready to change |
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Goal of health education (NCHEC 1996)
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promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health
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Health promotion defined:
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• A set of procedures that can be employed to change conditions that affect health
• Science and art of helping people alter their lifestyle to move toward state of optimal health |
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race
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defined by skin color, shape of lips, size of brow, bridge of nose. (unscientific classification). Traditional concept of race rests on false premise of natural distinctions. Generally agreed upon by society.
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ethnicity
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term used to indicate degree to which individual identifies and socializes with members of same cultural group and consciously participates in traditions and cultural practices. Implies membership is social rather than biological.
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what is public health?
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science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promotion physical health through organized community efforts
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IOM mission of PH
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fulfill society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy
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