UPDATED CHAPTER ONE REVISION QUESTIONS
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Achieving Health for All flowchart - RIGHT ANSWER -aim -> health challenges -> health
promotion mechanisms -> implementation strategies
at what are health promotion activities aimed? - RIGHT ANSWER -increasing the level of
well-being
Behavioural approach - RIGHT ANSWER -examines the behaviours associated with developing
health problems
Behavioural risk factors - RIGHT ANSWER -Behaviours that increase the chances of disease, injury,
or premature death
Determinants of health - RIGHT ANSWER -the range of personal, social, economic, and
environmental factors that influence health status
Dimensions of health and wellbeing - RIGHT ANSWER -triangle of physical (vitality, energy),
mental (meaning, purpose), and social (connection, community) dimensions of well being
disease prevention - RIGHT ANSWER -action to avoid or forestall disease + illness
Disease vs. Illness - RIGHT ANSWER -disease - objective state of ill health that can be detected by
medical science
illness - subjective experience of loss of health
,Evidence informed decision making - RIGHT ANSWER -a continuous interactive process involving
the explicit, conscientious and judicious consideration of the best available evidence to provide
care
Food insecurity - RIGHT ANSWER -a condition in which people have inadequate or uncertain
access to food
From a socioenvironemtnal perspective, the major determinants of health are
1. Psychosocial risk factors and socioenvironemntal risk conditions
2. Physiological risk factors and behavioural risk factors
3. Behavioural and psychosocial risk facotrs
4. Behavioural and socioenvironmental risk factors - RIGHT ANSWER -Psychosocial risk factors
and socioenvironemntal risk conditions
health - RIGHT ANSWER -A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
Health as a resource - RIGHT ANSWER -includes capacities to fulfill roles, meet demands, and
engage in daily living activities
Health as actualization - RIGHT ANSWER -actualization of human potential
Health as actualization and stability - RIGHT 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 stability - RIGHT ANSWER -Maintenance of physiological, functional and social norms
Health as unity - RIGHT ANSWER -reflects the whole person and process
,health disparities - RIGHT ANSWER -differences in health outcomes among groups
Health Field Concept - RIGHT 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 - RIGHT 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 - RIGHT ANSWER -the process of enabling people to increase control over, and
to improve, their health
health promotion strategies - RIGHT 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
Lalonde Report is significant in that it was the first to emphasize: - RIGHT ANSWER -a behavioural
approach to health
Medical approach - RIGHT ANSWER -Defines normality as an individual being physically healthy
and abnormality as having an illness that has an underlying physical cause
physiological risk factors - RIGHT ANSWER -involve the physical functioning of the body
example: being overweight
,Population Health Approach - RIGHT 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 - RIGHT ANSWER -peace, shelter, education, food, income, stable
ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equity
Providing immunizaitons against measles is an example of which of the following?
1. health promotion
2. primary prevention
3. secondary prevention
4. tertiary prevention - RIGHT ANSWER -primary prevention
Psychosocial risk factors - RIGHT ANSWER -Low socioeconomic status, social isolation and lack of
support, stress, negative emotions
Racialization - RIGHT ANSWER -the formation of a new racial identity by drawing ideological
boundaries of difference around a formerly unnoticed group of people
Racism - RIGHT ANSWER -Belief that one race is superior to another
social determinants of health - RIGHT 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 - RIGHT ANSWER -health is closely tied to social structures