HSS 1101 FINAL REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Psychsocial Health
Answer:
Mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of health
Question:
2. Being psychosocially health means:
Answer:
feeling good about yourself feeling comfortable with others being in control of tension and anxiety
meeting the demands of life
Question:
3. Psychosocially healthy people tend to:
Answer:
take positive outlooks help others value diversity appreciate/respect nature cherish happy things
Question:
4. Spiritual Health
Answer:
inner quest for well-being have a sense of being in the universe not necessarily the same as religion
Question:
5. Spirituality
Answer:
search for meaning, connectedness, energy, and transcendance
Question:
6. Factors of Spirituality
Answer:
Interconnectedness (connect to self, others, and larger purpose) Community (live in harmony) Mindfulness
(be fully present in the moment) Everyday Life (develop to fullest potential)
Question:
7. Factors Affecting Psychosocial health
Answer:
External: family, wider environment (community, groups/teams)
Internal: personality traits, hormonal functioning, physical health, self-esteem/efficacy, learned optimism,
personality, *lifespan, maturity*
Question:
8. 5 Personality traits
,Answer:
Extroversion Agreeableness Openness to experience Emotional Stability Conscientiousness
Question:
9. Psychosocially healthy results in:
Answer:
longer, more prosperous life
Question:
10. Life expectancy
Answer:
Average age a person will live to given factors within the country (food guide, diseases, treatments,
infastructure)
numbers used for planning and policy development
Question:
11. What is Health?
Answer:
Complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just absence of disease.
Question:
12. Health indicator
Answer:
single, quantitative measure that looks at a key dimension of health
Example: no new flu cases in Ottawa-> healthy (indicator being the new cases of flu)
Question:
13. Why use health indicators?
Answer:
make comparisons, track trends, compare geographic ares to find clusters of outbreaks/groups of people
affected
Question:
14. What makes a good health indicator?
Answer:
Data power: high quality, available data Proxy Power: central importance to health (tracking a flu in
Saskatoon means nothing to the indicator of Ottawa health) Communication Power: the meaning is
transparent (be able to understand and report what the measured data means)
Question:
15. Which country is Canada often linked to in terms of Health Indicators?
Answer:
Australia
Question:
16. What is high quality data?
, Answer:
what you're measuring accurately reflects what you want to measure
Question:
17. Bases for health indicators
Answer:
conceptual models for what influences health status based on scientific research
*Context is very important*
Question:
18. Current Conceptual Framework
Answer:
Spending too much on tertiary care instead of primary
Burden of chronic diseases (e.g., premature mortality, costs) Complex public health problems (e.g.,
violence, obesity, HIV), and health-related behaviors (e.g., smoking, diet, substance use) The influence of
social and environmental conditions on determining health outcomes, either directly or indirectly Deep,
persistent disparities in health (stem from large margins of income)
Question:
19. Common Framework for Health Indicators
Answer:
Determinants of health emphasize the social and physical environment, health behaviors, and medical care
Life course emphasizes optimizing health trajectory given early life conditions and interactions during
major developmental stages
Social determinants emphasizes education, economic, and social interactions/conditions
Question:
20. How are Health Indicators used?
Answer:
Mostly for planning, but also for monitoring and surveillance to identify areas needing help
Question:
21. Healthcare benchmarks
Answer:
steps toward goals
Question:
22. Problem with health indicators
Answer:
Do not give context just stats
Question:
23. Social Indicators
Answer:
Physical Environment Social Environment Child and Family Focused
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Psychsocial Health
Answer:
Mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of health
Question:
2. Being psychosocially health means:
Answer:
feeling good about yourself feeling comfortable with others being in control of tension and anxiety
meeting the demands of life
Question:
3. Psychosocially healthy people tend to:
Answer:
take positive outlooks help others value diversity appreciate/respect nature cherish happy things
Question:
4. Spiritual Health
Answer:
inner quest for well-being have a sense of being in the universe not necessarily the same as religion
Question:
5. Spirituality
Answer:
search for meaning, connectedness, energy, and transcendance
Question:
6. Factors of Spirituality
Answer:
Interconnectedness (connect to self, others, and larger purpose) Community (live in harmony) Mindfulness
(be fully present in the moment) Everyday Life (develop to fullest potential)
Question:
7. Factors Affecting Psychosocial health
Answer:
External: family, wider environment (community, groups/teams)
Internal: personality traits, hormonal functioning, physical health, self-esteem/efficacy, learned optimism,
personality, *lifespan, maturity*
Question:
8. 5 Personality traits
,Answer:
Extroversion Agreeableness Openness to experience Emotional Stability Conscientiousness
Question:
9. Psychosocially healthy results in:
Answer:
longer, more prosperous life
Question:
10. Life expectancy
Answer:
Average age a person will live to given factors within the country (food guide, diseases, treatments,
infastructure)
numbers used for planning and policy development
Question:
11. What is Health?
Answer:
Complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not just absence of disease.
Question:
12. Health indicator
Answer:
single, quantitative measure that looks at a key dimension of health
Example: no new flu cases in Ottawa-> healthy (indicator being the new cases of flu)
Question:
13. Why use health indicators?
Answer:
make comparisons, track trends, compare geographic ares to find clusters of outbreaks/groups of people
affected
Question:
14. What makes a good health indicator?
Answer:
Data power: high quality, available data Proxy Power: central importance to health (tracking a flu in
Saskatoon means nothing to the indicator of Ottawa health) Communication Power: the meaning is
transparent (be able to understand and report what the measured data means)
Question:
15. Which country is Canada often linked to in terms of Health Indicators?
Answer:
Australia
Question:
16. What is high quality data?
, Answer:
what you're measuring accurately reflects what you want to measure
Question:
17. Bases for health indicators
Answer:
conceptual models for what influences health status based on scientific research
*Context is very important*
Question:
18. Current Conceptual Framework
Answer:
Spending too much on tertiary care instead of primary
Burden of chronic diseases (e.g., premature mortality, costs) Complex public health problems (e.g.,
violence, obesity, HIV), and health-related behaviors (e.g., smoking, diet, substance use) The influence of
social and environmental conditions on determining health outcomes, either directly or indirectly Deep,
persistent disparities in health (stem from large margins of income)
Question:
19. Common Framework for Health Indicators
Answer:
Determinants of health emphasize the social and physical environment, health behaviors, and medical care
Life course emphasizes optimizing health trajectory given early life conditions and interactions during
major developmental stages
Social determinants emphasizes education, economic, and social interactions/conditions
Question:
20. How are Health Indicators used?
Answer:
Mostly for planning, but also for monitoring and surveillance to identify areas needing help
Question:
21. Healthcare benchmarks
Answer:
steps toward goals
Question:
22. Problem with health indicators
Answer:
Do not give context just stats
Question:
23. Social Indicators
Answer:
Physical Environment Social Environment Child and Family Focused
