NURS 404 | Community Health Promotion (All possible questions with correct solutions)

Define Health correct answers complete physical, mental, and social well-being (not just the absence of disease) Define Community correct answers - group usually in similar geographical area - have roles and relationships, and an awareness of their involvement in - share common beliefs/values - common needs and a commitment to meeting them Evolution of Health Theory correct answers 1. Miasma Phase - health & disease caused by pollution and bad air 2. Bacteriology Phase - disease caused by microorganisms! - Rubert Koch discovers microbiology/bacteria, given Nobel for TB work 3. Health Resource Phase - Thomas Douglas focuses on poverty/socio determinants of health - Public, Universal Healthcare insurance first enacted! 4. Social Engineering Phase 5. Health Promotion Phase - Lalonde Report: focuses on preventative, holistic health promotion - describes lifestyle, environment, community as impacts on health - moves away from disease 'victim blaming' Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (3 strategies) (5 actions) correct answers - defines health promotion as 'the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health' - three basic strategies for health promotion, which are *enabling, mediating, and advocacy* ((EMA)) - 5 actions to shift from *individual to community* health: o Healthy public policy o Creating supportive environments o Strengthening community actions o Developing personal skills o Reorienting health services