NURS 2115
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1. Medicine Wheel and 4 aspects: first nations view of health
4 aspects:
- intellect
-physical
-emotional
-spiritual
any area that is disjointed = unwell
2. defining health in historical content: initially and through the years: initially:
absence of disease
through the years:
- more holistic approach
- health was considered basic right
- establishments (WHO, Ottawa Charter) started to shift to health promotion, to
enable people to control their health
3. upstream approaches: prevention and promotion strategies focused on policy
interventions
addresses root causes
4. Levels of Prevention: Primordial
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
5. primordial prevention: prevention of risk factors
ex) implementing policies to promote healthy urban planing to include walkable
neighbourhoods to prevent a sedentary lifestyle.
6. primary prevention: risk factors exists, no illness/disease present
aim to prevent the occurrence of disease
ex) vaccinations
7. secondary prevention: early detection/screening to slow progression of the
disease
ex) mammograms to screen for breast cancer
8. teritary prevention: aims to reduce the impact of disease, focuses on rehabilita-
tion and QOL
ex) cardiac rehabilitation programs for those who have suffered a heart attack
9. Quaternary prevention: aims to mitigate or avoid the consequences of unnec-
essary or excessive intervention
ex) educating patients about the appropriate use of antibiotics to prevent the devel-
opment of antibiotic resistance
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10. Health promotion - definition: process of enabling people to increase control
over and improve their own health
targets: people at an individual level but also incorporates health determinants
(environmental, social, economic)
11. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: The Ottawa Charter for Health Promo-
tion was developed from the social model of health and defines health promotion as
'the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health'
12. Action Areas: Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: "DR CBS"
Developing personal skill
Re-orientating health services
Creating supportive environments
Building health public policy
Strengthening community action
13. Developing personal skills: aim: supports personal growth and social develop-
ment
14. Reorienting Health Services: make health systems focus on supporting the
people and communities
= holistic
15. Creating supportive enviroments: focused where people live
helps promote healthy choices in those settings
16. Building healthy public policy: very first thing to do, will fall apart without
protects health of individual and communities
17. Strengthening Community Action: collective efforts to improve health of com-
munity
18. bio medical approach: "individualistic approach"
Individual capacity
Individual DoH
Disease process
Health as a vulnerability
risk factors and behaviours viewed from individual lens
19. Socioeconomic Approach: Holistic: sociological, environmental, behavioural
moves away from thinking health is an individual choice and highlights impact of
other factors
20. community: group of people who live, learn, work, love, and pray in an environ-
ment at any given time
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1. Medicine Wheel and 4 aspects: first nations view of health
4 aspects:
- intellect
-physical
-emotional
-spiritual
any area that is disjointed = unwell
2. defining health in historical content: initially and through the years: initially:
absence of disease
through the years:
- more holistic approach
- health was considered basic right
- establishments (WHO, Ottawa Charter) started to shift to health promotion, to
enable people to control their health
3. upstream approaches: prevention and promotion strategies focused on policy
interventions
addresses root causes
4. Levels of Prevention: Primordial
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
5. primordial prevention: prevention of risk factors
ex) implementing policies to promote healthy urban planing to include walkable
neighbourhoods to prevent a sedentary lifestyle.
6. primary prevention: risk factors exists, no illness/disease present
aim to prevent the occurrence of disease
ex) vaccinations
7. secondary prevention: early detection/screening to slow progression of the
disease
ex) mammograms to screen for breast cancer
8. teritary prevention: aims to reduce the impact of disease, focuses on rehabilita-
tion and QOL
ex) cardiac rehabilitation programs for those who have suffered a heart attack
9. Quaternary prevention: aims to mitigate or avoid the consequences of unnec-
essary or excessive intervention
ex) educating patients about the appropriate use of antibiotics to prevent the devel-
opment of antibiotic resistance
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, NURS 2115
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_f3kjjz
10. Health promotion - definition: process of enabling people to increase control
over and improve their own health
targets: people at an individual level but also incorporates health determinants
(environmental, social, economic)
11. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: The Ottawa Charter for Health Promo-
tion was developed from the social model of health and defines health promotion as
'the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health'
12. Action Areas: Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: "DR CBS"
Developing personal skill
Re-orientating health services
Creating supportive environments
Building health public policy
Strengthening community action
13. Developing personal skills: aim: supports personal growth and social develop-
ment
14. Reorienting Health Services: make health systems focus on supporting the
people and communities
= holistic
15. Creating supportive enviroments: focused where people live
helps promote healthy choices in those settings
16. Building healthy public policy: very first thing to do, will fall apart without
protects health of individual and communities
17. Strengthening Community Action: collective efforts to improve health of com-
munity
18. bio medical approach: "individualistic approach"
Individual capacity
Individual DoH
Disease process
Health as a vulnerability
risk factors and behaviours viewed from individual lens
19. Socioeconomic Approach: Holistic: sociological, environmental, behavioural
moves away from thinking health is an individual choice and highlights impact of
other factors
20. community: group of people who live, learn, work, love, and pray in an environ-
ment at any given time
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