HEALTH PROMOTION THROUGHOUT THE LIFE SPAN UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE FULL SOLUTION

HEALTH PROMOTION THROUGHOUT THE
LIFE SPAN UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE FULL SOLUTION

●● Wellness-illness Continuum
Answer: a dichotomized portrayal of health and illness ranging from
high-level wellness at the positive end to depletion of health at the
negative end


●● High-level wellness
Answer: Positive end of the wellness-illness continuum. A sense of well-
being, life satisfaction, and quality of life.


●● depletion of health
Answer: Considered the negative end of the continuum. This includes
adaptation to disease and disability through various levels of functional
ability.


●● Ecological model of health
Answer: Is a comprehensive developmental approach, and is useful for
promoting health at individual, family, community, and societal levels.
Interconnection between people and physical/social environments.

, Promotes health on multiple levels: individual, family, community,
society.


●● social determinants of health
Answer: Socioeconomic status, education, physical environment,
employment, support networks as access to healthcare


●● Historical Perspective of health (before 1940)
Answer: Health = Absence of Disease


-Infectious diseases prominent
-Physician: Independent primary practitioner
-Government: Start public health/welfare


●● Historical Perspective of health (1940s to 1950s)
Answer: Health = Ability to fulfill roles


-Physicals for fitness
-Physicians linked to hospital services
-Increased Federal role: hospital expansion, federal programs


●● Historical Perspective of health
(1960s to present)