FAMILY PRACTICE GUIDELINES CASH GLASS
MULLEN CHAPTERS 1 TO 23 COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW AND STUDY GUIDE
◉ What is the World Health Organization's definition of health?
Answer: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
◉ What factors influence an individual's definition of health?
Answer: Personal values, experiences, and ways of living.
◉ What are health promotion strategies?
Answer: Processes that enable people to increase control over and
improve their health, which can be individual or community-
focused.
◉ What is the purpose of health communication?
Answer: To deliver health information through various media to
educate target populations.
◉ What are the three levels of prevention in health promotion?
Answer: Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
,◉ What is primary prevention?
Answer: Interventions instituted before disease becomes
established by removing causes or increasing resistance.
◉ What is secondary prevention?
Answer: Undertaken in cases of latent disease to detect and treat
disease early.
◉ What is tertiary prevention?
Answer: Implemented when a condition or illness is permanent and
irreversible, focusing on treatment and rehabilitation.
◉ What is quaternary prevention?
Answer: Protects patients from excessive medical interventions that
can cause more harm than good.
◉ What are nonmodifiable risk factors?
Answer: Risk factors that cannot be changed, such as age, gender,
genetic factors, and race.
◉ What are modifiable risk factors?
, Answer: Risk factors that can be changed, such as smoking, diet, and
physical inactivity.
◉ What is the Transtheoretical Model of Change?
Answer: A model that outlines the stages individuals go through to
change health behaviors.
◉ What defines acute illness?
Answer: An illness with an abrupt onset and short duration.
◉ What defines chronic illness?
Answer: A loss or abnormality of body function lasting more than six
months, requiring ongoing care.
◉ What is exacerbation in the context of chronic illness?
Answer: An acute episode of worsening symptoms of a chronic
illness.
◉ What are the human dimensions composing the whole person?
Answer: Cognitive abilities, educational background, past
experiences, genetic inheritance, age, race, gender, and
socioeconomic factors.
MULLEN CHAPTERS 1 TO 23 COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW AND STUDY GUIDE
◉ What is the World Health Organization's definition of health?
Answer: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
◉ What factors influence an individual's definition of health?
Answer: Personal values, experiences, and ways of living.
◉ What are health promotion strategies?
Answer: Processes that enable people to increase control over and
improve their health, which can be individual or community-
focused.
◉ What is the purpose of health communication?
Answer: To deliver health information through various media to
educate target populations.
◉ What are the three levels of prevention in health promotion?
Answer: Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
,◉ What is primary prevention?
Answer: Interventions instituted before disease becomes
established by removing causes or increasing resistance.
◉ What is secondary prevention?
Answer: Undertaken in cases of latent disease to detect and treat
disease early.
◉ What is tertiary prevention?
Answer: Implemented when a condition or illness is permanent and
irreversible, focusing on treatment and rehabilitation.
◉ What is quaternary prevention?
Answer: Protects patients from excessive medical interventions that
can cause more harm than good.
◉ What are nonmodifiable risk factors?
Answer: Risk factors that cannot be changed, such as age, gender,
genetic factors, and race.
◉ What are modifiable risk factors?
, Answer: Risk factors that can be changed, such as smoking, diet, and
physical inactivity.
◉ What is the Transtheoretical Model of Change?
Answer: A model that outlines the stages individuals go through to
change health behaviors.
◉ What defines acute illness?
Answer: An illness with an abrupt onset and short duration.
◉ What defines chronic illness?
Answer: A loss or abnormality of body function lasting more than six
months, requiring ongoing care.
◉ What is exacerbation in the context of chronic illness?
Answer: An acute episode of worsening symptoms of a chronic
illness.
◉ What are the human dimensions composing the whole person?
Answer: Cognitive abilities, educational background, past
experiences, genetic inheritance, age, race, gender, and
socioeconomic factors.
