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1
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What are determinants of health?

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Determinants of health are a range of factors that have a powerful and cumulative effect on the health of populations, communities and individuals

2
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Identify some determinants of health

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  • The physical environment,
  • The social and economic environment,
  • Our individual genetics, characteristics and behaviours
3
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Why are determinants of health important?

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  • The context of people’s lives determine their health so blaming/rewarding people for their health is inappropriate
  • Individuals are unlikely to be able to directly control many of the determinants of health
4
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What is health promotion?

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Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health

5
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There are certain principles of health promotion. Describe the following:

  • Empowering
  • Participatory
  • Holistic
  • Intersectoral
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  • Empowering: enabling individuals and communities to assume more power over the determinants of health

- Participatory: involving all concerned at all stages of the process

- Holistic: fostering physical, mental, social and spiritual health

- Intersectoral: involving the collaboration of agencies from relevant sectors

6
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There are certain principles of health promotion. Describe the following:

  • Equitable
  • Sustainable
  • Multi-strategy
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  • Equitable: guided by a concern for equity and social justice

- Sustainable: bringing about changes that individuals and communities can maintain once funding has ended

- Multi-strategy: uses a variety of approaches e.g. policy and community development & organisational change

7
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Distinguish between health promotion and public health

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  • Public Health tends to emphasise the ends
  • Health Promotion places more value on means to achieve the ends
8
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What are the 5 approaches enforced in health promotion?

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  • Medical / preventive
  • Behaviour change
  • Educational
  • Empowerment
  • Social change
9
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What are the aims and approaches of Primary Prevention?

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  • Aim: to prevent the onset of disease or injury – by reducing exposure to risk factors
  • Approaches: immunisation, reducing risk factors from health-related behaviours, etc
10
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What is the aim of Secondary Prevention?

Provide some examples

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Aim: to detect and treat a disease (or its risk factors) at an early stage to prevent progression / potential future complications and disabilities from the disease

E.g. screening for cervical cancer, monitoring and treating blood pressure

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What is the aim of Tertiary Prevention?

Provide some examples

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Aim: to minimise the effects of established disease

E.g. steroids for asthma, renal transplants, maximise the remaining capabilities and functions of an already disabled patient

12
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One of the dilemmas raised by health promotion involve the ‘ethics of interfering in people’s lives’.

Explain this

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  • Potential psychological impact of health promotion messages
  • State interventions in individuals’ lives
13
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One of the dilemmas raised by health promotion involve the ‘victim blaming’.

Explain this

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Focusing on individual behavioural change plays down the impact of wider socioeconomic & environmental determinants of health

E.g. high costs of ‘healthy living’, housing conditions, water and air quality, etc

14
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One of the dilemmas raised by health promotion involve the ‘fallacy of empowerment’.

Explain this

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  • Giving people information doesn’t give them the power
  • ‘Unhealthy’ lifestyles aren’t due to ignorance but due to adverse circumstances and wider socio-economic determinants of health
15
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One of the dilemmas raised by health promotion involve the ‘reinforcing of negative stereotypes’.

Explain this

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Health promotion messages have the potential to reinforce negative stereotypes associated with a condition or group

E.g. Leaflets aimed at HIV prevention in drug users can reinforce that drug users should only blame themselves

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One of the dilemmas raised by health promotion involve the ‘Unequal distribution of responsibility’.

Explain this

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Implementing healthy behaviours in the family is often left up to women

E.g Healthy eating advice and the responsibility – eat more fresh fruit, less processed food, etc.

17
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Explain the relevance of lay beliefs to health promotion interventions

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  • If people don’t see themselves as a ‘candidate’ for a disease they won’t co-operate with health promotion
  • Awareness of anomalies and randomness of a disease (e.g. heart attacks) also impacts views about candidacy
18
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What is evaluation?

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Evaluation is the rigorous & systematic collection of data to assess the effectiveness of a programme in achieving predetermined objectives

19
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Why should one evaluate?

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  • Need for evidence-based interventions
  • Accountability
  • Ethical obligation
  • Programme management and development
20
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What is process evaluation?

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Process evaluation focuses on assessing the process of programme implementation (uses qualitative methods)

21
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What is impact evaluation?

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Impact evaluation assesses the immediate effects of intervention

22
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What is outcome evaluation?

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Outcome evaluation measures more long-term consequences

23
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Illustrate how the timing of evaluation can influence the ‘outcome’

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  • Delay: some interventions might take a long time to have an effect
  • Decay: some interventions wear off rapidly
24
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Why could it be difficult to demonstrate an attributable effect?

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  • Design of the intervention
  • Possible lag time to effect
  • Potential confounding factors
  • High cost of evaluation research