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18 Cards in this Set
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What is health promotion?
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Science and art of helping people move towards a state of optimal health
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What is optimal health?
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Balance between:
- physical - emotional - spiritual - social - and intellectual health |
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How do you change lifestyle?
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1. Enhance awareness
2. Change behaviour 3. Create an environment that supports the lifestyle change |
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What are the HP development phases:
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1. Development and planning
2. Implementation 3. Evaluation |
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Goleman's emotional intellegence:
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- self awareness
- self regulation - motivation - empathy - social skills |
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What are the determinants of health?
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- gender
- sexuality and discrimination - personal healthcare practices - genetics - education - social gradient - social inclusion/exclusion - work/unemployment - social supports - stress - addiction - food - transport |
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Main points of the Ottawa charter for health promotion:
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1. Building public health policies
2. Creating supportive environments 3. Strengthen community action and involvement 4. Develop personal skills 5. Reorient health services |
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Health promotion principles used to plan and implement health promotion initiatives
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- empowering
- participatory - holistic - intersectional - equitable - sustainable |
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Effects of flight or fight response
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- increase BP and HR
- blood redirection to muscles and away from GIT - increased metab, RR and glucose breakdown - platelets and adhesions primed for blood loss - inflammatory cells released |
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Effects of allostatic load
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- impaired immunity
- metabolic syndrome - osteoporosis - atrophy of neurons in hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex - increased reactivity |
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What is a DALY?
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DALY = YLL + YLD
DALY: disability adjusted life year YLL: years life lost (due to premature mortality YLD: years of life lost to disability |
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National health promotion priorities in Australia
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- CVD
- cancer - mental health - injury - asthma - diabetes - musculoskeletal disease |
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Primary prevention
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prevention of onset of disease
- immunisation - education |
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Secondary prevention
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detection of biological onset of disease/early treatment
- screening - case findings - treatment: drug and lifestyle |
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Tertiary prevention
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prevention of complications of existing disease
- drug therapy - surgery - social and environmental supports |
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Prochaska and DeClemente Cycle
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- Pre-contemplation
- Contemplation - Preparation - Action - Maintainance - Relapse - Contemplation |
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Steps involved in a clinical audit
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1. observe practice
2. check guidelines 3. compare standard based on guidelines 4. compare practice with guidelines and standard 5. implement change 6. observe practice after implementation |
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What are the Millennium development goals?
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- Universal primary education
- Gender equality - Decreased child mortality (by 2/3) - Better maternal health (3/4) - Significant infectious diseases - Environmental sustainability - Global partnerships; access to drugs - Reduce poverty and hunger by 50% |
