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NURS288 Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the 5 action strategies of the Ottawa Charter? | Build healthy public policy, create supportive environments, strengthen community action, develop personal skills, and reorient health services |
| What was/is the aim of the Ottawa Charter? | Reduce inequality by targeting the most vulnerable groups (those with disabilities, poor, diseased, unemployed and disadvantaged families and communities) |
| What did the Lalonde Report propose? | The concept of the "health field" |
| What did the health fields in the Lalonde Report identify? | Two main health objectives: prevention of health problems and promotion of good health |
| What are the 4 parts of a health field? | human biology, environment, lifestyle, and healthcare organization |
| How is health promotion defined? | It is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health in order to reach a complete state of physical, mental and social wellbeing |
| What are NHPs? (and examples) | natural health products ex. probiotics, herbal remedies, vitamins, homeopathic remedies |
| What is OTC? (and examples) | Over the counter medications are the medications that kept behind the counter and only distributed by the pharmacist ex. medications known to be misused |
| What is primary health promotion? | Improve and promote health of individuals |
| What is secondary health promotion? | Prevent the progression or alleviate disease |
| What is tertiary health promotion? | Aims to soften the impact of an already progressed disease |