Having a sense of purpose and meaning in life. Feeling connected with others and society.
What is spiritual health?
100
Decline in death rate (due to decline in injury deaths), decline in smoking, increase in contraception use, decline in asthma hospitalisation, improved cancer survival rates.
What is the positive health status of young people?
100
Knowledge and skills, attitudes, behaviours, genetics
What are the individual factors that determine a person's level of health?
100
Involves activities that are aimed at enabling people to increase control over their health, to improve their health and prevent illness.
What is health promotion?
100
The Ottawa Charter is a document outlining action needed to achieve 'health for all by the year 2000 and beyond'. It was a result of the first International Conference on Health Promotion, which met in Ottawa Canada in 1986. The action areas of the Ottawa Charter are based on the understanding that health is socially determined.
What is the historical significance of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion?
200
Comparing your health to another period of time in your life or in relation to the health of others.
What is the relative nature of health?
200
Too many young people are overweight or obese, not meeting health and physical activity or fruit and vegetable guidelines, are drinking at risky levels, are victims of alcohol or drug related violence, or are homeless.
What is the negative health status of young people?
What are the social-cultural determinants of health?
200
Individuals, community groups and schools, non-government organisations, governments, international organisations.
Who is responsible for health promotion?
200
Developing personal skills
Creating supportive environments
Strengthening community action
Reorienting health services
Building healthy public policy
'Dead Cats Smell Really Bad'!!
Rising rates of diabetes and STI's, high rates of mental disorders and, among males, road transport accident deaths.
What is the negative health status of young people?
300
Employment, education, income and housing.
What are the socioeconomic determinants of health?
300
Non-profit organisations such as Asthma Australia, Mental Health Council of Australia, Diabetes Australia and the Cancer Council.
What are Non-Government Organisations (NGO's)?
300
Advocate
Mediate
Enable
What are the 3 basic health promotion strategies incorporated within the Ottawa Charter?
400
How healthy am I? How healthy do other people think I am? How healthy do I think other people are? Why would my perceptions of health be similar or different to others? How might an individual's perceptions of health affect their behaviour and well-being?
What are perceptions of health?
400
Young indigenous Australians, young people living in rural and remote communities and financially disadvantaged youth.
Which groups among young people tend to experience poorer levels of health?
400
Recognises the interrelationship between the determinants and challenges the notion that health is solely an individual's responsibility.
What is health as a social construct?
400
Planning and forming national health policies, identifying priority areas for action, coordinating health promotion campaigns, allocating funding and introducing regulations and legislations to ensure the maintenance of health.
What is the responsibility of the Commonwealth Government in health promotion?
400
Examples include the gradual elimination of lead in petrol by car manufacturers, local council recycling programs, smoke alarms, healthy school canteens, dual-lane highways on the road.
What is creating supportive environments?
500
A shift from viewing health as the absence of disease to a holistic approach where people make choices towards a more successful existence.
What is the definition of health?
500
Physical activity, avoiding risk taking behaviours such as binge drinking and smoking, eating nutritious foods and socialising.
What are protective behaviours?
500
Legislation, genetics, family, media, housing, income, access to health services, urban design, geographic location.
What are examples of non-modifiable health determinants?
500
National Drug Strategy, Australian Physical Activity Guidelines, BreastScreen Australia, Go for 2 & 5 and National Tobacco Strategy
What are examples of federal health promotion initiatives?