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1. How is disease defined?
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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 syste
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ms CORRECT ANSWER: A
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Disease may be defined as the failure of a person’s adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and str
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esses adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances. This definition is an ecological con
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cept of disease, which uses multiple factors to determine the cause of disease, rather than describing a
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single cause. Disease and illness are not synonymous.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) REF: Disease, Illness, and Health OBJ: 1 TOP: Assess
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ment MSC: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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2. How can health be defined?
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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. CO
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Definitions of health have evolved as the nature of health and illness becomes better understood. Health is
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much more than the absence of disease and illness. It is a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social fu
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nctioning 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:
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Health Promotion and Maintenance
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,3. The 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion document provides a blueprint for health promotion
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in 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 impro
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ve their health.
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c. It provides a view of health promotion that is focused on people taking control of their o
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d. It is most closely aligned with a clinical model of health.
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The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provides a blueprint for health promotion in Canada. With
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in this model, health promotion is depicted as the process of enabling people to increase control ov
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er and improve their health.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) REF: Health Promotion OBJ: 2 TOP: Assessment MSC: He
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alth 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) ma ma ma ma ma ma
b. McGowan Quality of Life Questionnaire ma ma ma ma
c. WHOQOL-BREF (World Health Organization) ma ma ma
d. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
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CORRECT ANSWER: C
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Multiple tools are available for measuring quality of life, including a general measure established by th
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e 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
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Health 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
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MSC: 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
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c. Someone with a headache ma ma ma
d. Someone with coronary artery disease without angin
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a CORRECT ANSWER: C
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Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective
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experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a respon
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se characterized by a mismatch between a person’s needs and the resources available to meet those nee
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ds. A person 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
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MSC: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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6. Which Canadian report is considered to be a landmark document in creating a global approach
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to health?
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b. Healthy People 2020 ma ma
c. Framework for Health Promotion in Canada ma ma ma ma ma
d. World Health Organization Quality of Lif
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By the mid-1980s, Canada became a world leader in the formulation of health-
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promotion ideals and strategies, particularly with the unveiling of the Framework for Health Promotion
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in Canada at the first World Health Organization (WHO) conference on health promotion in Ottawa.
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The overall goal of
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―achieving health for all‖ in this report identifies three health challenges: reducing inequities, increasin
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g prevention, 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 i
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mplementation strategies: fostering public participation, strengthening community health services; and c
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oordinating health public policy. ma ma ma
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based document to guide planning for health care. The WHO Quality of Life tool is a quality of life m
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easurement tool used by health care workers. The ma ma ma ma ma ma ma
Population Health Promotion Model was developed to provide an overall framework to guide health pro
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motion 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 MUL
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TIPLE CHOICE ma
1. How is disease defined?
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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 syste
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ms CORRECT ANSWER: A
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Disease may be defined as the failure of a person’s adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and str
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esses adequately, resulting in functional or structural disturbances. This definition is an ecological con
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cept of disease, which uses multiple factors to determine the cause of disease, rather than describing a
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single cause. Disease and illness are not synonymous.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) REF: Disease, Illness, and Health OBJ: 1 TOP: Assess
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ment MSC: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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2. How can health be defined?
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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. CO
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RRECT ANSWER: D ma ma
Definitions of health have evolved as the nature of health and illness becomes better understood. Health is
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much more than the absence of disease and illness. It is a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social fu
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nctioning 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:
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Health Promotion and Maintenance
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,3. The 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion document provides a blueprint for health promotion
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in 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 impro
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ve their health.
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c. It provides a view of health promotion that is focused on people taking control of their o
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wn health. ma
d. It is most closely aligned with a clinical model of health.
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CORRECT ANSWER: B ma ma
The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion provides a blueprint for health promotion in Canada. With
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in this model, health promotion is depicted as the process of enabling people to increase control ov
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er and improve their health.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) REF: Health Promotion OBJ: 2 TOP: Assessment MSC: He
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alth 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) ma ma ma ma ma ma
b. McGowan Quality of Life Questionnaire ma ma ma ma
c. WHOQOL-BREF (World Health Organization) ma ma ma
d. Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
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CORRECT ANSWER: C
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Multiple tools are available for measuring quality of life, including a general measure established by th
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e 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
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Health 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
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MSC: 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
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, b. Someone with hypercholesterolemia ma ma
c. Someone with a headache ma ma ma
d. Someone with coronary artery disease without angin
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a CORRECT ANSWER: C
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Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective
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experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a respon
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se characterized by a mismatch between a person’s needs and the resources available to meet those nee
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ds. A person 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
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MSC: Health Promotion and Maintenance
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6. Which Canadian report is considered to be a landmark document in creating a global approach
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to health?
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a. Population Health Promotion Model ma ma ma
b. Healthy People 2020 ma ma
c. Framework for Health Promotion in Canada ma ma ma ma ma
d. World Health Organization Quality of Lif
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e CORRECT ANSWER: C
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By the mid-1980s, Canada became a world leader in the formulation of health-
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promotion ideals and strategies, particularly with the unveiling of the Framework for Health Promotion
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in Canada at the first World Health Organization (WHO) conference on health promotion in Ottawa.
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The overall goal of
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―achieving health for all‖ in this report identifies three health challenges: reducing inequities, increasin
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g prevention, 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 i
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mplementation strategies: fostering public participation, strengthening community health services; and c
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oordinating health public policy. ma ma ma
Healthy People 2020 is a US- ma ma ma ma ma
based document to guide planning for health care. The WHO Quality of Life tool is a quality of life m
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easurement tool used by health care workers. The ma ma ma ma ma ma ma
Population Health Promotion Model was developed to provide an overall framework to guide health pro
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motion by blending both health promotion and population health concepts.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
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