U3 AOS 2 Health

• Public Health System


  Regulated by Collaborative Approach
• Parties involved in Public Health System

  • State
  • Government
• Public Health System


  • Focused on improving hygiene, sanitation and environmental health
  • Due to high rates of infectious diseases increasing mortality
• Smallpox epidemic


  1881
• Smallpox is now non-existent due to Vaccination-herd immunity
• In the 1900s, poor housing and environmental conditions, unsafe water led to dangerous health problems such as whooping cough, smallpox, tuberculosis, pneumonia
• Air quality was impacted by the Industrial era and rise of factories
• Life expectancy increased from 50 to 85-70
• Vaccinations mass production led to decrease of incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases by 99%
• Medical technology decreased cardiovascular diseases, heart diseases etc.
• A person's overall health can be influenced by factors such as genetics, lifestyle choices, environment, access to healthcare, and socioeconomic status.
• Lifestyle choices like diet, exercise, smoking, alcohol consumption, and stress management affect physical and mental wellbeing.
• Biomedical Approach Model


  Focuses on physical or biological aspects of disease and illness
• Biomedical Approach Model


  • Practiced by doctors and health professionals
  • Associated with the diagnoses, treatment, and cure of disease
• 'Bandaid' approach


  Its job is to fix people, not look at the cause
• Strengths of Biomedical Approach Model


  • Increases life expectancy and quality of life
  • Advances in medical tech research
  • Most conditions can be treated and cured
• Limitations of Biomedical Approach Model

  • Doesn't promote good health (behaviour)
  • Costly
  • Not everything can be treated or cured
• Medical technology has limitations
• New Public Health


  Aims to prevent illness and disease via modifying risk factors, focused at a population level enabling people to increase control over and improve health
• Social Model of Health


  Developed in late 1970s in response to preventable lifestyle diseases
• New Public Health


  1. Educating public

  2. Addressing broader determinants of health (social, economic, environmental)

  3. Reducing social inequalities

  4. Empowering individuals and community

  5. Reducing barriers (income, race, gender)
• New Public Health


  • Population level, more cost effective, encourages good health behaviours, passed down to future generations, targets vulnerable population groups, working together
• The aim of New Public Health is to prevent illness and disease via modifying risk factors
• New Public Health is focused at a population level enabling people to increase control over and improve health
• The Social Model of Health was developed in the late 1970s in response to preventable lifestyle diseases
• New Public Health involves educating the public
• New Public Health addresses broader determinants of health including social, economic and environmental factors
• New Public Health aims to reduce social inequalities
• New Public Health empowers individuals and communities
• New Public Health aims to reduce barriers such as income, race and gender
• New Public Health involves sectoral collaboration between government and non-government groups
• The strengths of New Public Health include population level impact, cost effectiveness, encouraging good health behaviours, and targeting vulnerable population groups
• The limitations of New Public Health include health messages being ignored, not all conditions being preventable, and not assisting those who are already sick
• What does AREAS stand for and what model does it represent?

  
  

  Areas stands for:

  Addresses broader determinants

  Reduces social inequalitys

  Empowers individuals

  Access to health

  Intersectorial collaboration

  
  

  Social model of health
• Ottawa Charter For Health Promo!


  Developed By WHO (world health organization)
• Ottawa Charter For Health Promo!

  • Aims to reduce Inequalitys in health
• 3 Basic Stratergies for health promotion

  • enabling
  • Mediate
  • Advocate
• enabling


  Ensuring equal resources and opportunition avaliable to all people to allow them to achieve equal health
• Mediate


  Resolve conflict to produce outcomes that promote health
• Advocate


  Actions that seen to gain support to make changes to Improve health determinants for everyone