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15 Cards in this Set
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Health |
Created in context of everyday life where people live, love, work and play |
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Health Promotion: |
Process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health |
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Bio-Medical Approach |
Health is absence of disease. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention |
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Behavioural Approach |
Health is result of lifestyle choices, specifically healthy ones. Health Education etc. |
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Socio-environmental Approach |
Health is result of determinants of health - specifically social economical and environmental that provide benefits and barriers to individual and community health |
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Health Promotion Strategies - 5 Areas requiring Action |
1. Strengthen Community Action 2. Building Healthy Public Policy 3. Creating Supportive Environments 4. Developing Personal Skills 5. Re-orientating Health Services |
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3 Levels of Prevention:
Primary Secondary Tertiary |
Primary: CHN provides education at health fair regarding healthy eating
Secondary: Screening for early diagnosis and treatment of hypertension
Tertiary: coping with disease |
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Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice |
1. Promoting Health using Health Promotion, Prevention & Health protection, health maintenance, restoration and palliation
2. Building Individual and Community Capacity
3. Building relationships
4. Facilitate Access & Equity
5. Demonstrating Professional Responsibility and Accountability |
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Define:
Social Justice
Population Health |
Social Justice: in context of primary health care refers to ensuring fairness and equality in health services so that all members of society have equal access to health care.
Population Health: focuses on groups and communities. reflects the evidence that factors outside the health care system significantly affect health. |
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Primary Care: |
Primary Care: narrow focus, refers to the first contact between individuals and the health care system and usualy relates to the curative treatment of disease, rehab and preventative measures such as immunizations, smoking cessation and dietary. |
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Primary Health Care: |
Broader, comprehensive care that includes disease prevention, community development, a wide spectrum of services and programs, working in interdisciplinary teams and intersectoral collaboration for healthy public policy. |
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Strengthening Community Action Key Concept:
Empowerment |
key concept in health promotion
Refers to active process whereby individuals, groups and communities are able to state their health requirements and be involved in and take charge of the strategies required to achieve improved health |
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Strengthen Community Action with
Asset Mapping: |
serves as starting point for determining the resources and assets available in the community.
Builds on existing strengths |
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Nurses role in health promotion:
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Skills the CHNs use in their health promotion practice include: Working in focus groups Preparing funding proposal application Program planning Communication Integrating research and practice (everything is based on research) |
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Landmark Health Promotion Movements |
1974 Lalonde Report 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration 1984 WHO WOrking Group develops concepts, principles, priorities and dilemmas of health promotion 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion 1986 Epp Report: A framework for Health Promotion 1996 Population Health Promotion: Integrated Model of Population and Health Promotion |
