Definitions
What is health promotion?
The WHO definition says health promotion helps people increase control over their health.
What is an economic/regulatory activity?
Raising tobacco taxes is this type of health strategy
Checking blood pressure is this type of competency.
What is a technical competency?
This 1986 charter provides foundational health promotion principles.
What is the Ottawa Charter?
This model considers social and behavioral influences on health
What is the biopsychosocial model?
What is promotion?
In health promotion, this term means “improving or encouraging health.”
What is positive health?
Positive health is a concept that goes beyond the absence of disease, focusing on a person's capacity to adapt and self-manage in the face of challenges. It emphasizes building on strengths and resources to promote well-being and a fulfilling life, rather than solely focusing on illness and its treatment.
These competencies involve planning and evaluating health campaigns
What are planning competencies?
These UK-based guidelines define performance expectations in public health
What are national occupational standards?
The decade when the term “health promotion” began being used.
What are the 1970s?
What is health development?
The continuous process of improving population health.
A company ad that encourages fiber intake, unintentionally promoting health, is this kind of effort
unplanned health promotion activity
Effective health promoters must be skilled in this form of interpersonal interaction.
What is communication?
A global statement with eight domains, including leadership and advocacy.
What is the Galway Consensus Statement?
Overemphasis on individual choices in health ed led to this criticism.
What is victim blaming?
What is health education?
Structured learning focused on improving health literacy.
How many types of positive health activities are identified by Scriven?
eight.
This competency involves empowering others and influencing policy.
What is partnership/facilitation?
This term describes aligning your goals with required job skills.
What is competency mapping?
This term means gaining control over decisions affecting one’s health.
What is empowerment?
What is social marketing?
A debated strategy that applies marketing techniques to influence healthy behavior.
What is organisational development?
Activities that build health capacity within an organization like a school.
These skills involve using the media to promote public health.
What are marketing/publicity skills?
This global statement outlines key roles and competencies for health promotion specialists, including implementation and evaluation.
What is the Galway Consensus Statement?
Redesigning public spaces to encourage walking is an example of this
What is environmental health promotion?