NURS 3510 WEEK 2 (health and healing: community as partner) Exam Questions and
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Critical Social Theories - Attend: attend to a structural analysis of health/illness
- Question: question even the most mundane
- Promote: promote self-management as a diverse, socially situated process
- Promote: promote the negotiation of risk as unique to each person/community
Ethical and Legal issues (Health promotion) -current emphasis is on behaviour ("deviance") =
individual behaviours
-social control - CHNs as agents of social control
- Problem of medicalization
what is health? - Health is a dynamic process with multiple assumptions and understandings
that evolve over time and evolve with varying professional perspectives and purpose
- A unique experience for individuals and communities, and an evolving, holistic human
experience, informed by multiple professions
-Traditional Euro-Canadian understanding of health rests with in the biomedical model.
what is health? (WHO Definition) "complete physical, social, and mental well-being"
What is health? (Community Health Nurses Association of Canada Definition) "A resource
for everyday life that is influenced by circumstances, beliefs, and the determinants of health"
what is health promotions? (WHO) "the process of enabling people to increase control over,
and improve their health"
- health promotion actions must go beyond targeting peoples behaviours and skills and must
also look at social, environmental, and economic conditions that threaten health.
, -Aims to reduce differences in health status and ensure equal opportunities and resources for
all people to attain optimal health and quality of life
Approaches to Health Promotion - Downstream approaches
- Upstream approaches
Downstream Approaches tertiary prevention measures that are focused on individual
treatment and cure ex. Medication for flu
-acute care services are usually tertiary prevention measures, are focused on individual
treatment and cure, and are considered downstream interventions. Ex. Rehab for stroke
patients
Upstream Approaches prevention and promotion strategies focusing on policy interventions
that target whole populations and examining and addressing root causes of preventable
disease and injuries. Ex. Flu shot
-extend beyond addressing individual behaviours
-taking action on root causes and injuries of preventable diseases
Canada in the 60s and 70s (Primary health care) - health promotion individualized
- behaviour based interventions
Lalonde Report (1974) Proposed the concept of the "health field", identifying two main
health-related objectives: the health care system; and prevention of health problems and
promotion of good health. Broadly defined health determinants as lifestyle, environment,
human biology, and the organization of health care... behavioral approach
- shifted emphasis from a medical to a behavioural approach
Answers| New Update with 100% Correct Answers
Critical Social Theories - Attend: attend to a structural analysis of health/illness
- Question: question even the most mundane
- Promote: promote self-management as a diverse, socially situated process
- Promote: promote the negotiation of risk as unique to each person/community
Ethical and Legal issues (Health promotion) -current emphasis is on behaviour ("deviance") =
individual behaviours
-social control - CHNs as agents of social control
- Problem of medicalization
what is health? - Health is a dynamic process with multiple assumptions and understandings
that evolve over time and evolve with varying professional perspectives and purpose
- A unique experience for individuals and communities, and an evolving, holistic human
experience, informed by multiple professions
-Traditional Euro-Canadian understanding of health rests with in the biomedical model.
what is health? (WHO Definition) "complete physical, social, and mental well-being"
What is health? (Community Health Nurses Association of Canada Definition) "A resource
for everyday life that is influenced by circumstances, beliefs, and the determinants of health"
what is health promotions? (WHO) "the process of enabling people to increase control over,
and improve their health"
- health promotion actions must go beyond targeting peoples behaviours and skills and must
also look at social, environmental, and economic conditions that threaten health.
, -Aims to reduce differences in health status and ensure equal opportunities and resources for
all people to attain optimal health and quality of life
Approaches to Health Promotion - Downstream approaches
- Upstream approaches
Downstream Approaches tertiary prevention measures that are focused on individual
treatment and cure ex. Medication for flu
-acute care services are usually tertiary prevention measures, are focused on individual
treatment and cure, and are considered downstream interventions. Ex. Rehab for stroke
patients
Upstream Approaches prevention and promotion strategies focusing on policy interventions
that target whole populations and examining and addressing root causes of preventable
disease and injuries. Ex. Flu shot
-extend beyond addressing individual behaviours
-taking action on root causes and injuries of preventable diseases
Canada in the 60s and 70s (Primary health care) - health promotion individualized
- behaviour based interventions
Lalonde Report (1974) Proposed the concept of the "health field", identifying two main
health-related objectives: the health care system; and prevention of health problems and
promotion of good health. Broadly defined health determinants as lifestyle, environment,
human biology, and the organization of health care... behavioral approach
- shifted emphasis from a medical to a behavioural approach
