Define Old Public Health
Old public health are policies and practices brought by the govt that focus on hygiene and the environment to mostly prevent infectious diseases
Policies and Practices related to Old Public Health
- Governement funded sewage systems
- Quarantine laws
- Elimination of slums
- Mass vaccination programs
Define the Biomedial Approach to Health
Focuses on the symptoms of a disease on illness and uses medical professionals to diagnose, treat and cure the disease.
How does the biomedical approach to health treat CVD
- Bypass surgery for blocked coronary arteries
- Stents to push open coronary arteries
- “clot-busting” drugs
How does the biomedical approach to health treat Cancer
- Surgery to remove tumour
- MRI for earlier detection
- Chemotherapy to reduce tumour
- Radiation to kill cancer cells
Advantages to the biomedical model of health
- Enables illnesses and conditons to be effectively treated
- Extends life expectancy
- Improves quality of life & HALE
Disadvantages to the biomedical model of health
- Costly - to both govt and patients
- Doesnt promote good h&w
- not every condition can be treated (e.g. genetic)
Define the Social Model of Health
Recognises that improvements in h&w can only be achieved by directing effort towards addressing the physical, socialcultural, and political environments of health that have an impact on individuals and population groups
Principles of the social model of health
- Addresses the broader determinants of health
- Empowers individuals and communities
- Acts to reduce social inequities
- Acts on enable access to healthcare
- Involves inter-sectorial collaboration
Advantages of the social model of health
- Promotes good h&w
- Less expensive than biomed approach
- Focuses on vulnerable population groups
- Shared responsibility of h&w
Disadvantages of the social model of health
- Not every condition can be treated
- Doesn’t promote the development of technology
- Doesn’t address individuals h&w
- Health promotion can be ignored
Define health promotion
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.
3 Strategies of health promotion
- Advocate
- Enable
- Mediate
5 action areas of the ottawa charter
- Build healthy public policy
- Create supportive environments
- Strengthen community action
- Develop personal skills
- Reorient Health services
