Concepts of Health
Definitions
Canada's Health Care System
Determinants of Health
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
100

Health is closely tied to social structures

Socioenvironmental Approach

100

The key component to Canada's social safety network, funded by general taxation.

Medicare

100

includes illness prevention services (screening and immunizations)

Level 2: Disease and Injury Prevention

100

The most influential determinant of health

Income and Social Status

100

Early detection of disease

Secondary

200

Represents stability and placed less emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention

Medical Approach

200

subjective experience of stability and balance

Wellness

200

Public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability, accessability

Principles of the Canadian Health Act

200

Increases opportunities for job and income security

Education and Literacy

200

COVID-19 immunization is an example of this 

Primary Prevention

300

The first document to shift emphasis from a medical approach to a behavioural approach

The Lalonde Report

300

is political

addresses health issues in context of social, economic, and political environment

emphazises empowerment

Health Promotion

300

The fastest growing component of health care

Home Care

300
These are both intersectoral and interrelated

Health determinants

300

Building healthy public policy

creating supportive environments

strengthening community action

developing personal skills

Reorienting health services

Health Promotion Strategies

400

Identity, body image, role performance, self-esteem

Components of Self-Concept

400

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 

WHO definition of health

400

Public health, physicians offices, assisted living facilities, home care

Community Sector 

400

People living in poverty are most likely to experience this health disparity

Food insecurity 

400

Falls prevention is an example of this health promotion strategy

Develop personal skills

500

This document supported a socioenvironmental approach to health

The Ottawa Charter

500

Aimed at developing actions to improve health

Population Health Model

500

This level of care is aimed at improving quality of life through education, advocacy, collaboration, and reserach

Rehabilitation
500

Added in 1996

Gender, Culture, and Social Environment

500

This is directed towards increasing the level of well-being and self actualization

Health Promotion Strategies

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