HEALTH SCI 2250 UNIT 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Better control of behavioural risk factors alone could prevent between ____ to _____ %
of ALL premature deaths, _____ of ALL acute disabilities, and ______ of chronic
disabilities... - Answers - 40-70%, 1/3, 2/3
Health education - Answers - is a planned learning experience to facilitate voluntary
change in behaviour
At the heart of health promotion is... - Answers - - LIFESTYLE: an enduring pattern of
behaviour or socialization
- focus on determinants of health, rather than measuring and explaining disease at
submolecular units
Lifestyle - Answers - an enduring pattern of behaviour or socialization
Health promotion (Green and kreuter (1999)) - Answers - "the combination of
educational and ecological supports of actions and conditions conductive to health" -
Green & Kreuter (1999)
Health promotion focuses on: - Answers - 1) advocacy: conditions of health favourable
through advocacy for health as a resource
2) enabling: focuses on achieving equity in health (equity is ensuring that everyone gets
what they NEED, equality is ensuring everyone gets the same thing - strive for equity for
healthcare throughout the country)
3) mediating: demands coordination of sectors
Health Promotion (Positive vs Negative connotation of health) - Answers - - broader
term then health education
- process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health
- if we work harder on their behaviour change, our clients will get better - HOWEVER,
the real definition is helping people to help themselves
- health as a positive concept, a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living
- it about making the healthier choice the easier choice
- the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of
optimal health
Measuring health: how to quantify health or health status? - Answers - - difficulty of task
leads us to define health with its opposite - ill
- death rates (if we are not dead, are we healthy?): are the # of deaths per one hundred
thousand residents per population
- life expectancy: the average # of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age,
and is based on a given set of age specific death rates
, - years of potential life lost: the measure of premature mortality (subtract a person's
current age when they die from the expected life expectancy age... Age 75 is often
used)
- disability-adjusted life years: an accident that has occurred, the burden of living with
the disability is expressed as the # of years of healthy life lost
9 assumptions of HP - Answers - (1) Health status is changeable -
(2) Health & disease determined by interactions among biology, psychology, behaviour,
social factors - our own personal equations
(3) Behaviour can change, those changes can influence health -
(4) Individual behaviour, family interactions, community & work relationships &
resources, & public police all contribute to health and behaviour change
(5) Intervention can teach HP-ing behaviours or attenuate (make better/reduce) risky
ones
(6) Determinants, nature, & motivation for behaviour must be understood for health
behaviour to change
(7) Initiating & maintaining behaviour change is challenging
(8) Individual responsibility does not equal victim blaming
(9) For permanent health behaviour change, person must be motivated & ready
HP efforts are based on assumptions, and follow basic generic format. What are the 6
steps in which the format includes - Answers - (1) Understand & engage
(2) Assess needs
(3) Set goals & objectives
(4) Develop intervention
(5) Implement intervention
(6) Evaluate results
How does the heart function? - Answers - It works to pump blood to various parts of the
body, as well as to receive blood. It does this by contracting and relaxing.
- ruptured or obstructed blood vessels can mean oxygen deprivation to body parts,
death of body part (necrosis)
- heart also requires a blood supply, so if coronary arteries are blocked, heart tissue can
die (myocardial infarction - heart attacks, mis)
Ruptured or obstructed blood vessels can mean oxygen deprivation to body parts,
death of body part - Answers - necrosis
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) - Answers - - A condition in which the heart is supplied
with insufficient blood due to clogging of coronary arteries
- heart disease can be hereditary, caused by rheumatic fever - most prevalent form of
disease is CHD
Most prevalent form of heart disease is... - Answers - CHD
ANSWERS
Better control of behavioural risk factors alone could prevent between ____ to _____ %
of ALL premature deaths, _____ of ALL acute disabilities, and ______ of chronic
disabilities... - Answers - 40-70%, 1/3, 2/3
Health education - Answers - is a planned learning experience to facilitate voluntary
change in behaviour
At the heart of health promotion is... - Answers - - LIFESTYLE: an enduring pattern of
behaviour or socialization
- focus on determinants of health, rather than measuring and explaining disease at
submolecular units
Lifestyle - Answers - an enduring pattern of behaviour or socialization
Health promotion (Green and kreuter (1999)) - Answers - "the combination of
educational and ecological supports of actions and conditions conductive to health" -
Green & Kreuter (1999)
Health promotion focuses on: - Answers - 1) advocacy: conditions of health favourable
through advocacy for health as a resource
2) enabling: focuses on achieving equity in health (equity is ensuring that everyone gets
what they NEED, equality is ensuring everyone gets the same thing - strive for equity for
healthcare throughout the country)
3) mediating: demands coordination of sectors
Health Promotion (Positive vs Negative connotation of health) - Answers - - broader
term then health education
- process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health
- if we work harder on their behaviour change, our clients will get better - HOWEVER,
the real definition is helping people to help themselves
- health as a positive concept, a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living
- it about making the healthier choice the easier choice
- the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of
optimal health
Measuring health: how to quantify health or health status? - Answers - - difficulty of task
leads us to define health with its opposite - ill
- death rates (if we are not dead, are we healthy?): are the # of deaths per one hundred
thousand residents per population
- life expectancy: the average # of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age,
and is based on a given set of age specific death rates
, - years of potential life lost: the measure of premature mortality (subtract a person's
current age when they die from the expected life expectancy age... Age 75 is often
used)
- disability-adjusted life years: an accident that has occurred, the burden of living with
the disability is expressed as the # of years of healthy life lost
9 assumptions of HP - Answers - (1) Health status is changeable -
(2) Health & disease determined by interactions among biology, psychology, behaviour,
social factors - our own personal equations
(3) Behaviour can change, those changes can influence health -
(4) Individual behaviour, family interactions, community & work relationships &
resources, & public police all contribute to health and behaviour change
(5) Intervention can teach HP-ing behaviours or attenuate (make better/reduce) risky
ones
(6) Determinants, nature, & motivation for behaviour must be understood for health
behaviour to change
(7) Initiating & maintaining behaviour change is challenging
(8) Individual responsibility does not equal victim blaming
(9) For permanent health behaviour change, person must be motivated & ready
HP efforts are based on assumptions, and follow basic generic format. What are the 6
steps in which the format includes - Answers - (1) Understand & engage
(2) Assess needs
(3) Set goals & objectives
(4) Develop intervention
(5) Implement intervention
(6) Evaluate results
How does the heart function? - Answers - It works to pump blood to various parts of the
body, as well as to receive blood. It does this by contracting and relaxing.
- ruptured or obstructed blood vessels can mean oxygen deprivation to body parts,
death of body part (necrosis)
- heart also requires a blood supply, so if coronary arteries are blocked, heart tissue can
die (myocardial infarction - heart attacks, mis)
Ruptured or obstructed blood vessels can mean oxygen deprivation to body parts,
death of body part - Answers - necrosis
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) - Answers - - A condition in which the heart is supplied
with insufficient blood due to clogging of coronary arteries
- heart disease can be hereditary, caused by rheumatic fever - most prevalent form of
disease is CHD
Most prevalent form of heart disease is... - Answers - CHD
