Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing Chapter 1.docx

Behavioural approach - correct answer examines the behaviours associated with developing health problems Behavioural risk factors - correct answer Behaviours that increase the chances of disease, injury, or premature death Determinants of health - correct answer the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status Disease vs. Illness - correct answer disease - objective state of ill health that can be detected by medical science illness - subjective experience of loss of health disease prevention - correct answer action to avoid or forestall disease + illness Evidence informed decision making - correct answer a continuous interactive process involving the explicit, conscientious and judicious consideration of the best available evidence to provide care Food insecurity - correct answer a condition in which people have inadequate or uncertain access to food health - correct answer A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being Health as actualization - correct answer actualization of human potential Health as actualization and stability - correct answer actualization of inherent and acquired human potential through goal-directed behaviour, competent self-care and satisfying relationships with others, while making adjustments as needed to maintain structural integrity and harmony with relevant environments Health as a resource - correct answer includes capacities to fulfill roles, meet demands, and engage in daily living activities Health as stability - correct answer Maintenance of physiological, functional and social norms Health as unity - correct answer reflects the whole person and process health disparities - correct answer differences in health outcomes among groups Health Field Concept - correct answer a framework that was developed in Canada to study health; it has four elements: human biology, environment, lifestyle, and health care organization health literacy - correct answer a person's capacity to learn about and understand basic health information and services, and to use these resources to promote one's health and wellness health promotion - correct answer the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health health promotion strategies - correct answer 1. Build a public health policy 2. Create supportive environment (Strength community) 3. strengthen community action 4. Develop personal skills (recent health services) 5. reorient health services Medical approach - correct answer Defines normality as an individual being physically healthy and abnormality as having an illness that has an underlying physical cause physiological risk factors - correct answer involve the physical functioning of the body example: being overweight Population Health Approach - correct answer an evidence-based approach to problem solving that considers a range of possible interventions, including health care, traditional public health, and social interventions Prerequisites for health - correct answer peace, shelter, education, food, income, stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equity Psychosocial risk factors - correct answer Low socioeconomic status, social isolation and lack of support, stress, negative emotions Racism - correct answer Belief that one race is superior to another Racialization - correct answer the formation of a new racial identity by drawing ideological boundaries of difference around a formerly unnoticed group of people social determinants of health - correct answer The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels Socioenvironmental Approach - correct answer health is closely tied to social structures