Health Promo, Disease prevention and risk management

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Health- free of disease and sickness, ability to adapt to change or can act as a resource to help cope with challenges and processes of daily living

Well-being

Well being- subjective perception of full functional ability as a human being

Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Risk Reduction as Core Activities of Public Health

1.preventing epidemics
2.Protecting the environment, workplaces, and sources of food and water
3.Promoting health behavior
4.Monitoring the health status of the population
5.Mobilizing community resources into service
6.Responding to disasters
7.Assuring the public that there are trained personnel to assist them and that there is access to areas for health care
8.Reaching out to those at high risk
9.Researching risk, disease acquisition, and ways to prevent injury through interventions
10.Influencing policy to acquire resources to effect change

Healthy People Initiatives

◦To increase quality and years of health life

◦To eliminate any barriers to accessing care, specifically through health disparities

Road maps to health promo

◦Epidemiologic model and prevention
(agent, host and environment are important in helping to control)
◦Epidemiologists make conclusions about the direction of further study by considering who what why when of disease

Levels of prevention

1.education, prevent, promote health and wellness, most influential for public health
2.Screening for at risk for early stage, max health and wellness through strategies set in place for those that are at risk
3.Treat to prevent complications, when disease is present

Risk Factors for the Leading Causes of Death in the United States

Heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lung disease, tobacco, high cholesterol, high BP, physical inactivity, obesity, diabetes, stress, smoking, unhealthy diet, environmental factors that contribute to disease
On the road (failure to wear seat belts), in the home (falls, poison, fire) environmental factors (pollution, radon, asbestos)

Three key factors driving US healthcare costs

1. specialty drugs -account for 1/3 of prescription drug spending
2. chronic diseases- treatment accounts for 86% of US healthcare costs
3. lifestyle- unhealthy choices are linked to costly chronic illness

Learning theories

•Health behaviors seen as incremental steps toward a final goal. (Skinner, 1953)

Behavior models

Motivational interviewing- client centered communication for listening behaviors by helping clients in groups explore and resolve their ambivalence to change
Behavior change models- help assist, clients groups and communities to redirect activities toward health and wellness