Holistic Health
Income, education and employment are examples of this category of determinants of health.
What are socioeconomic determinants?
This process enables people to increase control over and improve their health.
What is health promotion?
The ability to gather, process and understand basic information and use this to make informed decisions about health
What is Health Literacy?
Safe housing, access to clean water, transport and neighbourhood conditions belong primarily to this determinant category.
What are environmental determinants?
Building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments and strengthening community action are three components of this health promotion framework.
What is Ottawa Charter?
Taking an active role in maintaining your own health through behaviours such as healthy eating, physical activity, adequate sleep and stress management is known as this.
What is Self Care?
A person cannot attend appointments because they cannot afford transport or time away from work. These underlying circumstances demonstrate how this broad group of determinants can create health inequities.
What are socioeconomic determinants?
This Ottawa Charter action area focuses on providing people with the knowledge and skills needed to make healthier choices.
What is developing personal skills?
Taking prescribed medication correctly, monitoring symptoms and attending regular health appointments are examples of this approach to controlling an existing health condition.
What is disease management?
Birthweight and Body weight fall under this
What are biomedical determinants?
A campaign uses influencers popular with teenagers, delivers messages through social media and emphasises immediate social benefits rather than long-term disease risk. These decisions have primarily been shaped by identifying this.
What is the Target Audience?
Setting goals, monitoring symptoms and making informed decisions about treatment are examples of this approach where a person takes an active role in managing their own chronic condition.
What is self management?
Differences in income, education, employment and access to resources contribute to systematic and avoidable differences in health between population groups, known by this term.
What are health inequities?
A patient asks questions about treatment options, weighs the benefits and risks and participates in deciding which option is best. This demonstrates this higher-level health literacy ability.
What is Critical Health Literacy?
This involves recognising changes in symptoms early and taking a predetermined course of action to prevent the condition from worsening or requiring hospitalisation.
What is review?