Community Health Strategies
The process of providing the necessary resources, education, and policies to improve individual and community health.
What is Health promotion
This model explains and predicts health behaviours through six components that motivate people to take action and avoid negative health consequences
Health Belief Model
Getting 7-9 hours of this can improve both mental and physical health.
This personal barrier occurs when people believe they cannot change their behaviour due to a lack of confidence
Low self-efficacy
Establishing clear, achievable _____ related to the behaviour change helps in promotion of behaviour change
What is a Goal
These are programs provided to employees in workplaces, offering things like exercise, stress management, and nutrition support.
What is Workplace wellness programs
This theory links beliefs and behaviours and includes three types of beliefs that affect an individual’s intention to perform a behaviour.
Theory of Planned Behaviour
Reducing this behaviour is a key step in lowering your risk for lung cancer, heart disease, and strokes
Smoking
This social influence can make individuals feel pressured to continue unhealthy behaviours, such as smoking or overeating.
Peer Pressure
These groups aid in longer lasting health behaviour changes like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous groups
Social Support Groups
The type of prevention that focuses on avoiding diseases before they occur, such as vaccination programs
What is Primary Prevention
This model focuses on the stages of change, helping individuals progress through five stages toward behaviour change
Transtheoretical model or stages of Change model
This strategy includes increasing taxes on harmful products like cigarettes
Incentives
This type of barrier is caused when people live in communities with limited access to healthy food, safe places to exercise, or healthcare services.
Lack of resource or access
These are ways to implement no smoking zones, providing parks, ensuring clean water and air.
Environmental Changes
These programs often provide free screenings and health checkups to underserved communities
What is Community Health Fairs
This stage of change in the Transtheoretical Model involves individuals considering the possibility of change but not yet committed to taking action.
Contemplation Stage
Engaging in regular dental check-ups and maintaining oral hygiene can help prevent gum disease and other dental problems.
Dental care
This barrier happens when individuals do not receive support from family members or their community, making it difficult to adopt or maintain health changes.
Lack of social support
This involves community members in planning community health changes to ensure it is relevant and tailored to the needs of their own community
Community Engagement
These are public health campaigns aimed at raising awareness about specific health issues, like anti-smoking ads
What is Health Promotion Campaigns
This model is a comprehensive structure used for designing, implementing, and evaluating health programs to meet the needs of communities.
PRECEDE-PROCEED model
This nutrient is essential for muscle growth, repair, and immune function, and can be found in foods like lean meat, eggs, and legumes.
Protein
Individuals may be unable to afford preventive health services like screenings or check-ups due to this financial barrier.
Cost of Healthcare Barrier
These programs are integrated into school curriculums to educate on healthy lifestyle, mental health, substance abuse prevention and sexual health education
School based health education