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Health Promotion test 1
Public Health
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Health Care
Undergraduate 2
02/05/2011

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Post WWII
Definition

economic boom

expansive healthcare system

not sick=healthy

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Hill-Burton Act
Definition

1946

money to build hospitals and healthcare facilities

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1948
Definition

World Health Organization (WHO)

defined health - not just absence of disease!

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1940s-60s
Definition
Private and employer health insurance grows
Term
1965
Definition

Social Security Act

Medicare and Medicaid

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Framingham Heart Study
Definition

Massachusetts, 1948-today

Studied population to understand causes of heart disease

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North Karelia Project
Definition

Finland province

highest rate of coronary disease (world)

Individual and group-level interventions

Community-level interventions

Term
Lalonde Report
Definition

1973, Canada

Health care is not health improvement

Behavioral causes more important

Health Field Model

Term
1979
Definition

First Healthy People

Dr. Julius Richmond (surgeon general)

New objectives every 10 years

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1986
Definition

First International Health Prom Conference

Ottawa Charter for Health Prom.

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Ottawa Charter
Definition
Health promotion defined (enable)
Term
Biomedical Model
Definition

View health as absence of disease

Can be fixed by medical treatment

Body is like a machine

Scientific

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Causes of rising healthcare costs
Definition

Perscription drugs

Facility expansion

Lifestyle choices

Insulation of consumers from costs

Government mandates

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Medicare
Definition

65 or older

under 65 w/ disabilities

End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

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Medicaid
Definition

Low-income people

Requirements established by the state

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Upstream
Definition

Poverty

Unemployment

Poor housing conditions

Social exclusion

Discrimination

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Downstream
Definition

Obesity

Alcohol use

Smoking

Poor eating

Physical inactivity

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Tobacco related deaths
Definition
1192 deaths/day
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Health Promotion (Ottawa Charter)
Definition
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health...
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