MED6220 Introduction to Community Health

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MED6220Introduction to Community Health

• Dr. Diana L. Gustafson
• HSC 2834
• Tuesday, Sep 9, 2008

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Introduction to Community HealthWk I - Agenda

• Welcome and introduction
• Course facilitators
• Overview of course content
• Course objectives
• Course requirements and evaluation
• Human material resources

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Conceptual Models of Health
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What is health?
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What is community?
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Why and how does the concept of health matter?
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Measuring and Understanding Health Status

• Levels of health for individuals
• Biological expressions
• Clinical findings
• Levels of health for populations
• Social expressions
• Epidemiological findings

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Overview of Models of Health

• Biomedical Model of Health
• World Health Organization Model of Population
  Health
• Larson 1999

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Biomedical Model of Health

• Historical development
• Primary focus
• Approach to health

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Strengths of Biomedical Model
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Limitations of Biomedical Model
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WHO Model of Population Health

• Historical Development
• Primary focus
• Approach to health

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Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
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Healthy Social Policy
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Strengths of Population Health Approach
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Limitations of Population Health Model
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Session Summary

• Defining basic concepts
• Introducing concepts of health
• Identifying core principles of population health

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Summarizing the Contributions of Population
Health Approach

• Strategies address the entire range of factors
  that determine health
• Impact on entire population or sub group of
  population
• Focuses on
• health promotion
• disease prevention
• healthy public policy

• Strategies focus on risks and clinical factors
  related to particular disease
• Deals with individuals one at a time
• Focuses on
• individual with problem
• Individual at risk
• diagnosis and cure

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Creating Healthy Communities
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References

• Larson, J.S. (1999). The conceptualization of
  health. Medical Care Research and Review, 56(2)
  123-36.
• Shah, C.P. (2003). Public health and preventative
  medicine in Canada (5th ed.). Toronto Elsevier.
  Chapters 1, 4
• Public Health Agency of Canada. (2003). What
  determines health? webpage