Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Illustrate how diverse factors (sociocultural, psychological, economic, occupational, environmental, legal, political, spiritual, and technological) interact to influence the health of an individual and the population.
• Plan and advocate for an appropriate course of action at both the individual- and population-level that responds to the diverse factors influencing their health.
• Identify the ways in which health systems (federal, provincial, municipal, private, non-governmental) can address structural barriers to reduce inequities in health status between population groups.
• Describe the professional responsibility of the physician as Health Advocate in advancing the health and well-being of individuals, communities and populations.
• Define and discuss concepts of health, wellness, illness, disease, and sickness (including WHO and Health Canada definitions, Lalond Report, Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion).
• Describe the role that physicians can play in promoting health and preventing diseases at the individual and population level.
• Understand how public policy can influence community-wide patterns of behaviour and affect the health of a population.

Assessments

• Integration Foundation (IF)

Tags

Health Advocate Respond to an individual patient’s health needs by advocating with the patient within and beyond the clinical environment. Respond to the needs of the communities or populations they serve by advocating with them for system-level change in a socially accountable manner. Integration Foundation Part 5 Week 13 IF Indigenous Health Indigenous Health Priority Groups Environment Indigenous Health Population Health, Health Equity and Determinants of Health 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care. 6.4 Apply concepts of global health and social medicine to the health of individual patients and populations using the ecology, economy, equity framework 8.4 Demonstrate awareness and acceptance of different points of view Global Health [H02.403.371] Global Health [N01.400.337] Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375] Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375] Indigenous Peoples [M01.270.968] Population Health [N01.400.548]