Health and Health Promotion

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What is the primary goal of advocacy in health promotion?

To gain political commitment and policy support for health programmes (correct)

To conduct research on health issues

To educate individuals about healthy lifestyles

To provide healthcare services to communities

What is the main objective of the preventive approach in health promotion?

To change individual behavior through education

To empower individuals to make healthy choices

To reduce premature deaths and avoidable diseases (correct)

To provide healthcare services to communities

What is the primary level of prevention in the preventive approach?

Primary prevention (correct)

Secondary prevention

Quaternary prevention

Tertiary prevention

What is the goal of the self-empowerment approach in health promotion?

To empower individuals to make healthy choices Signup and view all the answers

What is the main characteristic of the behavior change approach?

It involves providing information to bring about behavior change Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of the tertiary level of prevention?

Reducing further disability or preventing the recurrence of illness Signup and view all the answers

What is the main goal of health promotion?

To create the essential conditions for health Signup and view all the answers

What is synonymous with health education in the behavior change approach?

Health education Signup and view all the answers

What determines the scope of health promotion?

Expected health outcomes and methods Signup and view all the answers

What is the main purpose of health promotion?

To enable people to gain greater control over the determinants of their health Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the principles of health promotion according to WHO?

Equity in health Signup and view all the answers

What does empowerment for health involve?

Involving individuals in decision-making processes Signup and view all the answers

What is the goal of health promotion initiatives according to WHO's global strategy?

To achieve greater equity in health between and within populations and countries Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the characteristics of a health promotion initiative?

It involves those concerned in all stages Signup and view all the answers

What does a sustainable health promotion initiative aim to achieve?

Changes that individuals and communities can maintain once initial funding has ended Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of health promotion strategies?

To empower individuals and communities to take control of their health Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of an enabling health promotion strategy?

Taking action in partnership with individuals or groups to empower them Signup and view all the answers

What is the goal of creating environments that are supportive of health?

To facilitate mediation in society to reconcile different interests Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of health promotion?

To strengthen the skills and capabilities of individuals and groups to improve health Signup and view all the answers

What is health promotion, according to the definition?

A process of enabling people to increase control over the determinants of health Signup and view all the answers

What is health, according to the definition?

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of a health promotion activity?

Conducting a nutrition program for a community Signup and view all the answers

What is essential to sustain health promotion action?

Participation Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the objectives of health promotion?

To ensure that people are well-informed and able to make healthy choices Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the determinants of health that can impact health promotion efforts?

Income Signup and view all the answers

What is the scope of health promotion?

Comprehensive, encompassing social, environmental, and economic conditions Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Definition of Health and Health Promotion

Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease and infirmity.
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health.

Characteristics of Health Promotion

Comprehensive social and political process.
Strengthens the skills and capabilities of individuals.
Changes social, environmental, and economic conditions to alleviate their impact on public and individual health.
Participation is essential to sustain health promotion action.

Examples of Health Promotion Activities

Water and sanitation activities.
Nutrition programs for a community.
Infection prevention activities, such as immunization.
Awareness campaigns on HIV testing.

Goals and Objectives of Health Promotion

Goal: Strengthen the skills and capabilities of individuals and groups to improve individual and public health.
Objectives:
- Prevent disease and early medical treatment.
- Prevent complications of diseases.
- Ensure people are well-informed and able to make healthy choices.
- Help people acquire skills and confidence to take control over their health.
- Change policies and environments to facilitate healthy choices.

Scope of Health Promotion

Determined by expected health outcomes and methods.
Includes educational and environmental supports for actions and conditions conducive to health.

Principles of Health Promotion

Equity in health: Ensure equal opportunities for wellbeing and fair access to health resources.
Empowerment for health: Enable individuals and communities to express their needs and take control over their health.
Participatory: Involve those concerned in all stages of planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Inter-sectoral: Collaboration between agencies from relevant sectors.
Sustainable: Bring about changes that can be maintained once initial funding has ended.
Multi-strategy: Use a variety of approaches, including policy, development, organizational change, community development, legislation, advocacy, education, and communication.
Holistic: Foster physical, mental, social, and spiritual health.

Health Promotion Strategies and Approaches

Enabling: Empower individuals and groups through mobilization of human and material resources.
Creating environments that are supportive of health: Mediate in society to promote and protect health.
Advocacy: Create the essential conditions for health through lobbying, social marketing, and community organizing.

Health Promotion Approaches

Preventive approach:
- Primary prevention: Prevent disease onset.
- Secondary prevention: Prevent the progression of disease.
- Tertiary prevention: Reduce further disability or prevent recurrence of illness.
Behavior change approach: Bring about change in individual behavior through changes in individuals' knowledge.
Self-Empowerment approach: Empower individuals to make healthy choices through education and skill-building.

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Learn about the definitions of health and health promotion, including the importance of physical, mental, and social well-being.