Health & Social Care Health Promotion
- Created by: katie.green1997
- Created on: 04-05-16 10:14
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- Health & Social Care Health Promotion
- Biomedical approach
- takes medical action to improve health
- operations
- Smear tests
- free contraceptive
- often supported by laws
- Weaknesses
- access to the clinic
- Might not understand the reasons why
- unaware of treatments that are on offer
- people may be afraid of treatment
- may treat the problem but not be the root causes
- Strengths
- work on the majority
- many are happy to have tests
- can prevent health problems
- public have faith in science
- herd immunity
- takes medical action to improve health
- Educational/ behavioural approach
- Increases awareness
- Binge drinking risks
- Bullying
- Symptoms of illness
- Weaknesses
- may not reach everyone (TV campaign)
- Some people too young to understand
- People may not be interested
- People may be in denial/ not want to change
- People may feel positives outweigh the negatives
- Strengths
- lots of strategies to support people
- campaigns are able to reach a lot of people
- targeted at a specific group of people
- provides information for those who want to make a decision
- becomes 'common sense'
- Provides people with methods to improve health
- Increases awareness
- Societal Approach
- improves health through laws and restrictions
- Anti-smoking laws
- Age of consent
- targets for doctors
- Strengths
- morally wrong
- scared of the punishments
- the strategies can be enforced through the laws
- hard to miss changes in the laws
- people are more likely to listen and take laws seriously
- Weaknesses
- serveral years to come into effects
- People may rebel
- difficult to enforce
- doesn't stop it all together
- Laws are already being broken
- improves health through laws and restrictions
- Biomedical approach
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