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PLE CHOICE cn
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imbalance
d. The assault by stimuli and stress on the body’s core defence systems
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CORRECT ANSWER: A cn cn
Disease may be defined as the failure of a person’s adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stress
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es adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances. This definition is an ecological concept o
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f disease, which uses multiple factors to determine the cause of disease, rather than describing a single ca
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use. Disease and illness are not synonymous.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) REF: Disease, Illness, and Health OBJ: 1 TOP: Assessme
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nt MSC: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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2. How can health be defined? cn cn cn cn
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b. As the person’s philosophy for living in harmony with their environment
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c. A state of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being
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d. A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s potential and
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is experienced within a developmental context. COR
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RECT ANSWER: D cn cn
Definitions of health have evolved as the nature of health and illness becomes better understood. Health is muc
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g that realizes a person’s potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) REF: Health and Wellness OBJ: 1 TOP: Assessment MSC: H
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ealth Promotion and Maintenance
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,3. The 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion document provides a blueprint for health promotion in
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Canada. Which of the following statements is correct concerning this model?
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a. The focus is on environment and the ability to achieve health on a personal and societal level.
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b. It depicts health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve
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their health. cn
c. It provides a view of health promotion that is focused on people taking control of their own
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health.
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d. It is most closely aligned with a clinical model of health.
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CORRECT ANSWER: B cn cn
The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provides a blueprint for health promotion in Canada. Within
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this model, health promotion is depicted as the process of enabling people to increase control over and
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nimprove their health. cn cn
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) REF: Health Promotion OBJ: 2 TOP: Assessment MSC: Healt
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h Promotion and Maintenance
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4. Which of the following is a tool used to measure quality of life?
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a. CDCQOL-BREF (from the Centers for Disease Control) cn cn cn cn cn cn
b. McGowan Quality of Life Questionnaire cn cn cn cn
c. WHOQOL-BREF (World Health Organization) cn cn cn
d. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion cn cn cn cn cn
CORRECT ANSWER: C cn cn
Multiple tools are available for measuring quality of life, including a general measure established by the
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World Health Organization Quality of Life, WHOQOL-
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BREF and the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire for use at the end of life. The Ottawa Charter for Heal
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th Promotion provides a framework for health promotion, rather than measuring quality of life.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension) REF: Health Promotion OBJ: 2 TOP: Assessment M
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SC: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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5. Which of the following best describes a care recipient who has an illness?
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a. Someone who has well-controlled diabetes cn cn cn cn
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, b. Someone with hypercholesterolemia cn cn
c. Someone with a headache cn cn cn
d. Someone with coronary artery disease without angina cn cn cn cn cn cn cn
CORRECT ANSWER: C cn cn
Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective exp
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erience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a response char
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acterized by a mismatch between a person’s needs and the resources available to meet those needs. A pers
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on can have a disease without feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyze (Analysis) REF: Disease, Illness, and Health OBJ: 4 TOP: Assessment MS
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C: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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6. Which Canadian report is considered to be a landmark document in creating a global approach to
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health?
a. Population Health Promotion Model cn cn cn
b. Healthy People 2020 cn cn
c. Framework for Health Promotion in Canada cn cn cn cn cn
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CORRECT ANSWER: C cn cn
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promotion ideals and strategies, particularly with the unveiling of the Framework for Health Promotion in
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Canada at the first World Health Organization (WHO) conference on health promotion in Ottawa. The o
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verall goal of cn cn
―achieving health for all‖ in this report identifies three health challenges: reducing inequities, increasing p
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revention, and enhancing coping. The three health-
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promotion mechanisms to address these challenges are self-
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care, mutual aid, and healthy environments. The final component of the framework consists of three impl
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ementation strategies: fostering public participation, strengthening community health services; and coordi
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nating health public policy.
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Healthy People 2020 is a US-
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based document to guide planning for health care. The WHO Quality of Life tool is a quality of life measu
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rement tool used by health care workers. The
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Population Health Promotion Model was developed to provide an overall framework to guide health prom
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otion by blending both health promotion and population health concepts.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
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, Chapter 1: Health Defined: Health Promotion, Prevention, and Protection MULTI
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PLE CHOICE cn
1. How is disease defined? cn cn cn
a. The failure of a person’s adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stresses adequately,
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resulting in functional or structural disturbances
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b. Disease and illness are components of a struggle for balance in the bodily systems
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c. The failure of a person’s bodily systems in responding to stresses, resulting in a hormonal
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imbalance
d. The assault by stimuli and stress on the body’s core defence systems
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CORRECT ANSWER: A cn cn
Disease may be defined as the failure of a person’s adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stress
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es adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances. This definition is an ecological concept o
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f disease, which uses multiple factors to determine the cause of disease, rather than describing a single ca
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use. Disease and illness are not synonymous.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) REF: Disease, Illness, and Health OBJ: 1 TOP: Assessme
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nt MSC: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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2. How can health be defined? cn cn cn cn
a. As the absence of disease and illness
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b. As the person’s philosophy for living in harmony with their environment
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c. A state of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being
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d. A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s potential and
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is experienced within a developmental context. COR
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RECT ANSWER: D cn cn
Definitions of health have evolved as the nature of health and illness becomes better understood. Health is muc
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h more than the absence of disease and illness. It is a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functionin
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g that realizes a person’s potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) REF: Health and Wellness OBJ: 1 TOP: Assessment MSC: H
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ealth Promotion and Maintenance
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,3. The 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion document provides a blueprint for health promotion in
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Canada. Which of the following statements is correct concerning this model?
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a. The focus is on environment and the ability to achieve health on a personal and societal level.
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b. It depicts health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve
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their health. cn
c. It provides a view of health promotion that is focused on people taking control of their own
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health.
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d. It is most closely aligned with a clinical model of health.
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CORRECT ANSWER: B cn cn
The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provides a blueprint for health promotion in Canada. Within
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this model, health promotion is depicted as the process of enabling people to increase control over and
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nimprove their health. cn cn
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) REF: Health Promotion OBJ: 2 TOP: Assessment MSC: Healt
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h Promotion and Maintenance
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4. Which of the following is a tool used to measure quality of life?
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a. CDCQOL-BREF (from the Centers for Disease Control) cn cn cn cn cn cn
b. McGowan Quality of Life Questionnaire cn cn cn cn
c. WHOQOL-BREF (World Health Organization) cn cn cn
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CORRECT ANSWER: C cn cn
Multiple tools are available for measuring quality of life, including a general measure established by the
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World Health Organization Quality of Life, WHOQOL-
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BREF and the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire for use at the end of life. The Ottawa Charter for Heal
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th Promotion provides a framework for health promotion, rather than measuring quality of life.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension) REF: Health Promotion OBJ: 2 TOP: Assessment M
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SC: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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5. Which of the following best describes a care recipient who has an illness?
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a. Someone who has well-controlled diabetes cn cn cn cn
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, b. Someone with hypercholesterolemia cn cn
c. Someone with a headache cn cn cn
d. Someone with coronary artery disease without angina cn cn cn cn cn cn cn
CORRECT ANSWER: C cn cn
Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective exp
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erience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a response char
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acterized by a mismatch between a person’s needs and the resources available to meet those needs. A pers
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on can have a disease without feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyze (Analysis) REF: Disease, Illness, and Health OBJ: 4 TOP: Assessment MS
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C: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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6. Which Canadian report is considered to be a landmark document in creating a global approach to
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health?
a. Population Health Promotion Model cn cn cn
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c. Framework for Health Promotion in Canada cn cn cn cn cn
d. World Health Organization Quality of Lifecn cn cn cn cn cn
CORRECT ANSWER: C cn cn
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promotion ideals and strategies, particularly with the unveiling of the Framework for Health Promotion in
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Canada at the first World Health Organization (WHO) conference on health promotion in Ottawa. The o
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verall goal of cn cn
―achieving health for all‖ in this report identifies three health challenges: reducing inequities, increasing p
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revention, and enhancing coping. The three health-
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promotion mechanisms to address these challenges are self-
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care, mutual aid, and healthy environments. The final component of the framework consists of three impl
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ementation strategies: fostering public participation, strengthening community health services; and coordi
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nating health public policy.
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Healthy People 2020 is a US-
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based document to guide planning for health care. The WHO Quality of Life tool is a quality of life measu
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rement tool used by health care workers. The
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Population Health Promotion Model was developed to provide an overall framework to guide health prom
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otion by blending both health promotion and population health concepts.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
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