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Health Promotion Barriers, Behavior Factors, and Settings

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Summary

Health promotion and disease prevention depend on more than individual choices. People’s circumstances, resources, and social environments can make healthy actions easier or harder. This lesson introduces barriers at individual, family, system, and community levels, with examples connected to the social determinants of health (SDOH).

A barrier is a circumstance or obstacle that prevents or hinders progress toward a positive health outcome. Barriers can affect one person, a family, an organization, or an entire community. They can also interact: for example, limited income may affect access to safe housing, nutritious food, and health care at the same time.

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What is a health barrier?
A circumstance or obstacle that makes it harder for a person or population to achieve a positive health outcome.
What is structural racism?
Systems and practices that produce or maintain unequal opportunities and outcomes across racial groups.
What are internal health care system factors?
Factors within the service environment, such as leadership, policies, communication, staffing, and resources.
What is health literacy?
The ability to find, understand, and use health information and services.
What is social listening?
Collecting and analyzing community questions, concerns, narratives, and circulating misinformation from online and offline sources.

Quiz questions

  1. What is a health barrier?Answer: A circumstance or obstacle that hinders progress toward a positive health outcome.
  2. Which is an example of a reinforcing factor that can encourage a behavior to continue?Answer: Family members give positive feedback for wearing a mask.
  3. Which is an external factor in a health care delivery system?Answer: The government's role in health care.
  4. What does the term infodemic describe?Answer: An overabundance of information, including misinformation, during a health emergency.
  5. What is a health promotion setting?Answer: A place or social context where daily activities and other factors influence health.

Based on Population Health for Nurses by Jessica Ochs, Sherry L. Roper, Susan M. Schwartz (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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