Questions and Answers
Action areas of the Ottawa charter - answer1- developing personal skills
2- creating supportive environments
3- strengthening community action
4- reorienting health services
5- building healthy public policy
Determinants of health - answerfactors associated with a person's life that can
be modifiable or non-modifiable
Dimensions of health - answersocial, emotional, physical, mental, spiritual
Dynamic Health - answerrefers to changes in health that can occur at any time
Groups responsible for health promotion - answerhealth promotion is the
responsibility of individual's, communities, non-government organisations,
and all levels of government
Health continuum - answera line of health where people are positioned depending
of their health at any given time, it is continually changing
Health promotion - answerthe process of enabling people to increase control over
and to improve their health
Mental health - answerthe capacity to express our emotions, adapt to a range of
demands and to function productively
, Modifiable health determinants - answerfactors relating to a person's health that
can be changed or altered
Physical environment - answerboth natural and built aspects of where a
person lives that can impact on an individual's health
Physical health - answerthe wellness of the body and the absence of chronic pain or
discomfort
Political environment - answerthe policies and laws set by the Governments that
can impact on the health of individuals
Responsibilities - answeractions that we must take and tasks we must do
Rights - answerentitlements that we all have
Social construct - answera concept that recognises that people have different
views based on their social circumstances and ways of seeing, interpreting,
interrelating and interacting with their environment
Social health - answerour ability to interact with other people in an
interdependent and cooperative way
Social justice - answersupports measures that aim at decreasing or eliminating
inequity
Sociocultural environment - answeraspects such as ethnicity, gender, education
and geographical location that can impact on an individual's health
Socioeconomic environment - answerhow the money status of an individual
can impact their health