Health Promotion and Health Communication correctly answered graded A+

Health Promotion and Health CommunicationThe World Health Organization defines health as: - correct answer "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" Health promotion - correct answer The process of enabling people and communities to increase their control over various determinants of health and to improve their own health. Health promotion introduces what? - correct answer It introduces the role of behaviors, attitudes and knowledge, into the health equation and focuses on a wide range of social and environmental interventions. What does health promotion include? - correct answer It includes health education and links oral health to other health issues. What are the 3 basic health promotion strategies? - correct answer 1) Advocacy for health 2) Enabling people to achieve their full health potential 3) Mediating different societal interests in pursuit of health Advocacy - correct answer The act or process of supporting a cause or proposal. Mediating - correct answer Exhibiting indirect causation, connection, or relation Five action steps can help achieve the 3 strategies are: - correct answer 1) Build healthy public policy (tobacco-free restaurants and bars) 2) Create supportive environments for health (exercise rooms in workplaces) 3) Strengthen community action for health (support for local farmers markets) 4) Develop personal skills (healthy meal planning and cooking) 5) Reorient health services (provide incentives for keeping people well) Oral health promotion efforts can what? And what is the anticipated outcome of these efforts? - correct answer - Increase use of oral health and wellness services and preventive self-care measures. - The anticipated outcome of these efforts is a reduced incidence and severity of oral diseases with improved oral health and overall health. Theories help us... - correct answer Analyze and interpret health problems and then plan and evaluate interventions. What is a theory? - correct answer A set of interrelated concepts, definitions, and propositions that presents a systematic view of events or situations by specifying relations among variables to explain and predict the events or situations. (Health promotion theories) Behavior that leads to improved oral health can be affected at three levels. What are they? - correct answer 1) Intrapersonal (within the individual) 2) Interpersonal (between people) 3) Community (including institutional or organizational change and public policy Intrapersonal level - correct answer - Stages of Change Theory - Health Belief Model Interpersonal level - correct answer Social Learning Theory Community level - correct answer - Community Organization Theory - Diffusion of Innovations Theory - Organizational Change: Stage Theory Stages of Change Theory (Transtheoretical Model) - correct answer - Views change as a process or cycle that occurs over time rather than as a single event - Assumes that at any point in time everyone is at a different stage of readiness to make