Questions with Quality Answers.
Preventive Health - Answer Personal & Social behaviors that promote and maintain well geing
Preventive health concept emphasizes what - Answer The important of assuming
responsibility for ones personal being
What responsibility do citizens have for the health of all individuals? - Answer Establishing
food safety standards, water fluoridation, regulating air pollution, and pesticide use and
advocating for child safety legislation
What are three National Health initiatives that support childrens well being? - Answer Healthy
People 2020, National Childrens Agenda, Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Healthy People 2020 - Answer Supports and strengthens the underlying philosophy of health
promotion and disease prevention
Childrens Health Insurance Program - Answer CHIP; provides lowcost Health insurance for
approximately 9 million children whose families aren't too much to qualify for Medicaid but
cant addord private health insurance
Every Child Succeeds Act - Answer Replaces "No Child Left Behind"
Ecological - Answer A systems approach that acknowledges the ways in which people in their
environment relate to, interact with, and influence, one another
Health + Safety + Nutrition = - Answer Well Being
Contemporary definitions view health from a perspective as a state of? - Answer Physical,
emotional, social, economic, cultural and spiritual well-being
Health - Answer Complete physical, mental, social and emotional well-being; the quality of
one a health element affects the state of the
Health - Answer Complete physical, mental, social and emotional well-being; the quality of
one health element affects the state of the others
, Health is determined by what? - Answer The dynamic interaction of genetics in environmental
factors
The quality of a person's well-being is always what? - Answer Changing
Name five things that interfere with children's optimal growth and development - Answer
Exposure to chemicals, pollution, abuse, illness, obesity, prenatal alcohol exposure, sedentary
lifestyle's, property, acute and chronic stress, food insecurity, violence, unhealthy dietary
choices
Safety - Answer Behaviors and measures that are taken to protect in individuals unnecessary
harm
What is the leading cause of death among children? - Answer Unintentional injury
Food provides nutrients that are essential for what? - Answer Gross, energy, protection from
illness & disease, and continuous tissue repair
Food insecurity and unhealthy dietary practices can lead to what? - Answer Malnutrition
and/or obesity
Children's behavior can be affected by? - Answer The quality of their diet
Growth - Answer Numerous physical changes, such as eruption of teeth, increased height,
weight gain and improve visual activity that can occur as a child matures
Growth results from what? - Answer The interaction of genetic potential and environmental
factors
Development - Answer Changes that occur in the complexity of children's cognitive, social
emotional, and motor and language abilities
When is an infants brain wired and ready to learn? - Answer At birth
Maternal practices during pregnancy influence what? - Answer The child's brain structural
development
Majority of a child brain development occurs by? - Answer Five years old