Approaches to health promotion and personal responsibility

Overview

Health promotion, behaviour change approach and social change approach in the United Kingdom.

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1. 1

   What is health promotion?

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   Health promotion is planned work that helps people gain more control over the things that affect their health and improve it.

2. 2

   Describe the medical approach to health promotion.

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   The medical approach aims to prevent or treat disease by medical means such as immunisation, screening and prescribed medication, and it is led by health professionals.

3. 3

   Give one strength and one weakness of the medical approach.

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   The medical approach produces measurable results such as falling infection rates, but critics argue it casts people as passive recipients and ignores the social causes of ill-health.

4. 4

   Describe the behaviour change approach.

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   The behaviour change approach tries to persuade individuals to adopt healthier habits, such as giving up smoking or eating better, by altering their attitudes.

5. 5

   Give one criticism of the behaviour change approach.

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   Critics argue that the behaviour change approach blames the individual for choices that poverty, addiction or poor housing may make almost impossible.

6. 6

   Describe the educational approach to health promotion.

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   The educational approach gives people accurate information and the skills to weigh it, so they can reach an informed decision for themselves.

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