NU 332 Unit 1 Exam Study Guide
1. Healthy People 2020
● What is it? Federal government’s prevention agenda for building a healthier nation
● What is the goal?
o Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death
o Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
o Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
o Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life changes
● What populations does it serve?
o Minorities, elderly, those with chronic illnesses (any group of individuals who are at a higher risk
of experiencing health disparities)
2. Define Health and Nutrition
a. Health is an individual’s complete physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical wellbeing. It is not just
defined by the absence of a disease or an illness.
b. Nutrition is the study of nutrients and how they are used in the body
3. Discuss malnutrition
Malnutrition is a condition resulting from an imbalanced nutrient or energy intake = both over and undernutrition
4. Identify and Discuss the 6 dimensions of health
Physical efficiency of the body to function appropriately, to maintain immunity to disease, and to meet daily energy
requirements
From skeletal bones to hormones
Intellectual use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to changes in one’s environment
Relies on a well-functioning brain and central nervous system
Emotional capacity to easily express or suppress emotions appropriately
Social ability to interact with people in an acceptable manner and sustain relationships Situations
often center food-related occasions
Environmental external factors that affect our health and well-being (i.e., where one lives and works, education,
access to natural resources)
Spiritual cultural beliefs that give purpose to human existence Islam
and Judaism = NO pork
7th day Adventists = ovo-lacto vegetarians or ONLY plant and dairy diet
5. Explain the difference in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
Primary = activities to avert the initial development of a disease or poor
health
Eating healthy
, Secondary = early detection to halt or reduce the negative effects of a disease or illness
1. Healthy People 2020
● What is it? Federal government’s prevention agenda for building a healthier nation
● What is the goal?
o Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death
o Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
o Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
o Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life changes
● What populations does it serve?
o Minorities, elderly, those with chronic illnesses (any group of individuals who are at a higher risk
of experiencing health disparities)
2. Define Health and Nutrition
a. Health is an individual’s complete physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical wellbeing. It is not just
defined by the absence of a disease or an illness.
b. Nutrition is the study of nutrients and how they are used in the body
3. Discuss malnutrition
Malnutrition is a condition resulting from an imbalanced nutrient or energy intake = both over and undernutrition
4. Identify and Discuss the 6 dimensions of health
Physical efficiency of the body to function appropriately, to maintain immunity to disease, and to meet daily energy
requirements
From skeletal bones to hormones
Intellectual use of intellectual abilities to learn and adapt to changes in one’s environment
Relies on a well-functioning brain and central nervous system
Emotional capacity to easily express or suppress emotions appropriately
Social ability to interact with people in an acceptable manner and sustain relationships Situations
often center food-related occasions
Environmental external factors that affect our health and well-being (i.e., where one lives and works, education,
access to natural resources)
Spiritual cultural beliefs that give purpose to human existence Islam
and Judaism = NO pork
7th day Adventists = ovo-lacto vegetarians or ONLY plant and dairy diet
5. Explain the difference in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
Primary = activities to avert the initial development of a disease or poor
health
Eating healthy
, Secondary = early detection to halt or reduce the negative effects of a disease or illness
