NURS 2000 Pre-Midterm questions with Complete
Solutions
Approaches to Health Promotion - Behavioural Correct Answer-- social
marketing to change behaviour
- "if YOU change your behaviour you will be healthy"
- puts ownership on community and/or person
- does not take into account SDOH (do they have money for gym)
- something is wrong with the person
- unidimensional -> all about the person changing themselve
- doesn't take into account other factors that could be effecting the
individual's health
Levels of Influence in the Social-Ecological Model Correct Answer-
Society:
- provincial & federal policies and laws to regulate/support healthy
actions
Institutions:
- Rules, regulations, policies & informal structures
Community:
- organization & services
Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion Correct Answer-- 1986
- influenced by Epp Report
- Emphasis on achieving equity in health
, Critical Social Theory Correct Answer-- understanding relationships
with regards to power and where it is situated
- Critical Theories: are broad field, with no unified definition. (Expose
oppressions, seek to liberate individuals from conscious and unconscious
constraints)
- Challenge structural constraints and social policies (sociopolitical
advocacy)
-"seek to understand a situation and to alter conditions, thus leading to
emancipation, equality and freedom"
Critical Social Theory Examples Correct Answer-- working against
poverty and illiteracy
- feminist scholarship on oppression of women
- lesbian and gay studies
- critical perspectives on race and ethnic relations, gender equality and
health promotion
Goal of Critical Social Theory Correct Answer-1. analyze the social,
economic, political, cultural, and environmental ways individuals and
groups are harmed by social institutions and political processes (being
analytic and critical)
2. act on these health damaging effects at a community level to facilitate
structural change (where it intersects at both community and individual
level)
3. examine social justice, equity, and social change through theory,
research and evidence-informed practice (did this during homeless sim)
Solutions
Approaches to Health Promotion - Behavioural Correct Answer-- social
marketing to change behaviour
- "if YOU change your behaviour you will be healthy"
- puts ownership on community and/or person
- does not take into account SDOH (do they have money for gym)
- something is wrong with the person
- unidimensional -> all about the person changing themselve
- doesn't take into account other factors that could be effecting the
individual's health
Levels of Influence in the Social-Ecological Model Correct Answer-
Society:
- provincial & federal policies and laws to regulate/support healthy
actions
Institutions:
- Rules, regulations, policies & informal structures
Community:
- organization & services
Ottawa Charter of Health Promotion Correct Answer-- 1986
- influenced by Epp Report
- Emphasis on achieving equity in health
, Critical Social Theory Correct Answer-- understanding relationships
with regards to power and where it is situated
- Critical Theories: are broad field, with no unified definition. (Expose
oppressions, seek to liberate individuals from conscious and unconscious
constraints)
- Challenge structural constraints and social policies (sociopolitical
advocacy)
-"seek to understand a situation and to alter conditions, thus leading to
emancipation, equality and freedom"
Critical Social Theory Examples Correct Answer-- working against
poverty and illiteracy
- feminist scholarship on oppression of women
- lesbian and gay studies
- critical perspectives on race and ethnic relations, gender equality and
health promotion
Goal of Critical Social Theory Correct Answer-1. analyze the social,
economic, political, cultural, and environmental ways individuals and
groups are harmed by social institutions and political processes (being
analytic and critical)
2. act on these health damaging effects at a community level to facilitate
structural change (where it intersects at both community and individual
level)
3. examine social justice, equity, and social change through theory,
research and evidence-informed practice (did this during homeless sim)
