Health Promotion Development Overview

Strategies to improve or maintain the health of large populations.

Identified lifestyle as a key factor in health, a target for promotion.

A framework for Canadian health promotion; individual responsibility for health.

Three levels of health promotion: medical, public health, and social. Each level has different goals.

Health promotion focused on managing disease, like recovering from a heart attack or finding a cure for cancer.

Health promotion that aims to prevent diseases, like promoting safe sex or anti-drinking and driving programs.

Effective health promotion is a broad community effort, not just a government order.

The idea that individuals and communities are primarily responsible for their own health.

An approach to health promotion that focuses on social change to improve public health policies. Examples include policies aimed at providing health-essential resources like school lunches.

Factors like income, social status, social support, education, employment, gender, culture, race, and racism that directly influence health outcomes.

Unfair or unjust differences in health, impacting different groups based on factors like culture, geography, education, income, age, and occupation.

Saving government money through healthcare cost savings, especially in countries like Canada where expenditures are substantial.

Encouraging individuals to prioritize their health through actions like exercise, diet, regular checkups, and disease screenings.

A screening test for cervical cancer, that was first introduced in the late 1940s in BC, Canada.

Transport accidents and intentional self-harm are among the primary causes of death for Canadians between the ages of 15-25.

Childhood obesity was a substantial issue in Canada, with 10.6% obese and another 18 % overweight (ages 5 to 17).

Behaviors that become habits or part of our identity, requiring less conscious thought.

The process by which a behavior becomes automatic and routine.

Stage where a person isn't considering changing a behavior.

Stage where a person acknowledges a problem and considers changing a behavior.

Attempt to change people's attitudes and beliefs.

A cognition in which a person evaluates a target, using adjectives or verbs like "good," "bad," "like," or "dislike".

Something considered true, not evaluative.

Persuasion that relies on logic, reason, and facts to change attitudes

Emphasizing the positive outcomes of engaging in a health behavior.

Highlighting the negative consequences of not engaging in a health behavior.

The belief that a specific action will lead to a desired outcome.

Confidence in one's ability to perform a specific behavior.

Taking responsibility for one's own actions and choices.

The lack of clear information and unpredictable nature of a pandemic.

The feeling of exhaustion and frustration from prolonged pandemic-related restrictions.

Simple, easy-to-understand communication about health behaviors.

Persuasion relying on emotions, appearance, and general impressions rather than logic.

A persuasive technique using fear to encourage behavior change or avoid risk.

A person's belief that a threat is real and that they are vulnerable to it.

A model describing how fear appeals can lead to avoidance, fear control, or danger control.

Responding to a fear appeal by changing behavior to reduce the threat.

A theory suggesting that changing beliefs can lead to behavioral changes related to health.

The likelihood that a specific action will reduce a health risk.

A state of exhaustion and demotivation caused by prolonged exposure to a pandemic, leading to decreased adherence to safety measures.

A comprehensive framework for planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs, encompassing both preparatory and action phases.

The first five phases of the Precede-Proceed model, focusing on planning and assessment, such as identifying community needs and desired outcomes.

The latter four phases of the Precede-Proceed model, focusing on program implementation and evaluation, such as putting plans into action and measuring their impact.

Evaluating the impact of health promotion programs to determine their success and identify areas for improvement.

Difficulties in measuring the effectiveness of health promotion programs, often due to abstract concepts, long-term benefits, and underreporting.

Evaluation criteria based on decisions made by external bodies, like government agencies, regarding community needs.

Evaluation based on direct experiences of the community involved in the health promotion campaign.