with accurate answers
health education - correct answers involves giving information and teaching individuals and
communities how to achieve better health, a common role within nursing
health promotion - correct answers focuses on socioeconomic and environmental determinants of
health and participatory involvement; includes advocacy and assessing and building on patient strengths
WHO definition of health - correct answers Complete state of physical, mental, social, and emotional
well-being; not merely the absence of disease; health is a fundamental right of all people
Organizational, Environmental, Economic, Sociocultural, Behavioral - correct answers factors affecting
health
primary prevention - correct answers tries to avert the occurrence of disease
secondary prevention - correct answers aims to halt disease progression
tertiary prevention (rehabilitation) - correct answers aims to restore individuals to their highest level of
functioning
Historical practices, key documents, task forces and international conferences - correct answers What
has health promotion today been shaped by?
1970s - correct answers Focus was on preventing disease and reducing risk behaviors through health
education
1980s - correct answers Increasing attention to supportive environments, social influences, economic
resources, health inequalities
, 1990s - correct answers Focus on setting and environment
healthy people 2020 - correct answers Eliminate preventable disease, disability, injury and premature
death
Achieve health equity by eliminating health disparities
Create social and physical environments that promote health
Support health development and behavior across the lifespan
Phase 2 will include interactive tools such as webinars, online chat groups, instant messaging, LinkedIn,
and Twitter feeds
WHO (World Health Organization) - correct answers A group within the United Nations responsible for
human health, including combating the spread of infectious diseases and health issues related to natural
disasters; a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments
improve health services
Lilian Wald - correct answers Founder of public health nursing (home nursing); Henry Street Settlement
nurses active in political lobbying
Florence Nightingale - correct answers Established sanitary nursing care units; Founder of modern
nursing; began professional education of nursing; school to educate district nurses devoted a full year to
community health promotion; first nursing theorist
Mary Breckinridge - correct answers a nurse who practiced midwivery in England, Australia, and New
Zealand, founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in 1925 to provide family-centered primary
health care to rural populations in Kentucky
Why health promotion should be theory-based - correct answers provides step-by-step factors, multiple
theories may be needed
behavioral change theories - correct answers explain why people do or do not adapt certain health
behaviors; promotes self-efficacy and motiviation