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3036 Week 3
Health promotion, communication, literacy, and the infodemic
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is health promotion? | Implementing interventions (social and environmental) interventions that enable people (and communities) to have more control over their health |
| What are the 3 approaches to health promotion? | 1. Biomedical - Treatment and prevention of disease 2. Behavioural - Using lifestyle changes to promote health 3. Socioenvironmental - Looks at psychosocial and environmental risk factors related to the DoH |
| What is the difference between risk factors and protective factors? | Risk factors- Variables that create stress and challenge patient's health status Protective factors - Variables like individual characteristics, support systems, and environmental supports that help patients manage stressors for being at risk |
| What are the levels of prevention of disease/ health problems? | Primary - preventing illness on a population level (ex. vaccines) Secondary - Screening and monitoring for populations at risk (ex. cancer screening) Tertiary - Helps people with the illness manage and prevent complications (ex. cardiac rehabilitation) |
| What is the quaternary level of prevention of disease? | Reducing unnecessary medicalization |
| What is the primordial level of prevention of disease? | Policies and laws created to prevent disease (ex. purposeful urban planning, school programs, etc) |
| What does the population health promotion model look at? | 1. With whom should we act? 2. On what should we take action? 3. How should we take action? |
| What does the transtheoretical model look at? | It describes the process of behavior change as occurring in stages. |
| What does the theory of planned behavior model look at? | Links beliefs to behaviours - 1. Attitude 2. Subjective norms 3. Perceived behavioral control Together shape an individual's behavioral intentions. |
| What does the diffusion of innovation theory model look at? | Looks at how ideas are spread though a population - the pattern of adoption |
| What does the building healthy public policy model look at? | Uses a framework to develop healthy public policy and assesses the impact of said policy development and implementation |
| What does the Precede-proceed model look at? | Used as a planning tool to assess health needs for designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion and other public health programs to meet needs. |
| What does the social ecological model look at? | Looks at different categories of factors that are influential for the health and the determinants of health. Interventions can be focused on a specific category or multiple. |
| What are the 5 strategies of health promotion? | 1 - Strengthening community action 2 - Building healthy public policy 3 - Creating supportive environments 4 - Developing personal skills 5 - Reorienting health services |
| What are the 4 key elements of social marketing that can be used for health promotion? | Products - benefits Price - Physical activity was inexpensive - easy to do Place - convenient access Promotion - media forms |
| What is mutual aid? | Also called self-help Others viewed as equal as we understand that we share common experiences, situations, or problems. |
| Define health literacy | The ability to access, understand, evaluate, and communicate information as a way to promote health in a variety of settings |
| What are the benefits of adequate health literacy? | - Patient safety improved - Improved outcomes - Helps people understand what they have to do - Saves time and money - Reaches more people - increases engagement |
| What is the impact of evolving technology on health information? | |
| What is an infodemic? | An overflow of information (varying in quality) that is everywhere in digital and physical environments |
| How can the infodemic harm health? | - direct impact - stigma - misunderstanding - undermines social cohesion - mistrust |
| What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation? | misinformation - Info that is false but not intended to cause harm disinformation - false info that is created with the purpose to cause harm |
| What can the health worker address health misinformation | - Address patient questions and concerns - Fact-check and address misinformation |