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HEALTH AND ITS DETERMINANTS, It answers the following simple equation:…
HEALTH AND ITS DETERMINANTS
The community medicine approach
Analysis
intervention on health problems across the population (community)
Health Determinants
analyzed using "tools" such as Epidemiology
set of factors which may influence health
age
gender
housing
behaviors
social conditions
political decisions
possible to distinguish some groups of
populations at risk such as
Drug addicts, smokers
People with risky sexual behavior
Pregnant women, elderly
People living more than 5 km from a health center
Health services (hospitals, doctors, drugs, etc.)
Act in interaction
Are multiple (salary, social status, education, physical environment, availability of health
services, etc.)
Evolution of the concept of health
Specific etiology model or biomedical model
Ecological or systematic model
-Recognizes the importance of the environment
Addresses the health problem as a set of elements
allows the analysis of most chronic diseases
It considers 4 groups of determinants
Factors related to the evolution of the concept of health
The limits of modern medicine:
: Medical errors
excessive specialization of medicine
, increase in
health expenditure
The evolution of people's needs:
The needs are becoming more precise, refined and developed
3 dimensions
Definition of Health
Ecological model
Individual:
Sociocultural:
Biochemical
model
World Health Organization Definition
Advantages:
Gives health a positive outlook
-Emphasizes the multidimensional aspect of health
Very rigorous since well-being is desired to be complete
Disadvantages:
Subjective
Does not allow us to measure health.
considers health as a static state(immobile)
Monnier Definition
Health corresponds to the balance and harmony of all the possibilities of the
human person
According to individual’s needs
The 14 Basic Human needs of “Virginia HENDERSON”
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
It answers the following simple equation: Pathogen Disease
