HPR 205 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE HEALTH
PROFESSIONS STUDY GUIDE
●● Social model of health
Answer: Focuses on social, environmental, and economic factors that
influence health
●● Health is the absence of disease (which model?)
Answer: Medical model
●● Health is a product of social, biological, and environmental factors
(which model?)
Answer: Social model
●● Health services geared toward treating the sick and disabled
Answer: Medical model
●● Services emphasize prevention and treatment at all stages
Answer: Social model
●● High value placed on specialist medical services
,Answer: Medical model
●● Less emphasis on specialists, more focus on community and self-
help
Answer: Social model
●● Role of health workers in the medical model
Answer: Diagnose and treat illness, support the "sick role"
●● Role of health workers in the social model
Answer: Help people gain control over their health
●● Pathogenic focus
Answer: Focuses on causes of disease
●● Salutogenic focus
Answer: Focuses on factors that support health and well-being
●● Example of medical model intervention
Answer: Screening for disease and treating those diagnosed
●● Example of social model intervention
,Answer: Improving social/environmental conditions to prevent disease
●● Holistic model of health
Answer: Considers physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health
●● Medicine Wheel concept
Answer: Health requires balance of physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual aspects
●● Physical component of health
Answer: Caring for the body and developing physical skills
●● Mental component of health
Answer: Learning and maintaining cognitive health
●● Emotional component of health
Answer: Expressing feelings and maintaining relationships
●● Spiritual component of health
Answer: Connection to culture, nature, others, or a higher being
●● Unified Model of Health
, Answer: Combines ideal state, fitness, commodity, and personal strength
●● Seedhouse's Model of Health
Answer: Health as a resource to achieve full potential
●● Limitation of Seedhouse's model
Answer: Overemphasizes individual factors, ignores social determinants
●● Biomedicine
Answer: Focus on physical/biological causes of disease
●● Disease
Answer: Medical condition preventing normal body function
●● Health (definition)
Answer: Complete physical and mental well-being, not just absence of
disease
●● Ill health
Answer: Poor health with some impairment but not total limitation
●● Illness
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE HEALTH
PROFESSIONS STUDY GUIDE
●● Social model of health
Answer: Focuses on social, environmental, and economic factors that
influence health
●● Health is the absence of disease (which model?)
Answer: Medical model
●● Health is a product of social, biological, and environmental factors
(which model?)
Answer: Social model
●● Health services geared toward treating the sick and disabled
Answer: Medical model
●● Services emphasize prevention and treatment at all stages
Answer: Social model
●● High value placed on specialist medical services
,Answer: Medical model
●● Less emphasis on specialists, more focus on community and self-
help
Answer: Social model
●● Role of health workers in the medical model
Answer: Diagnose and treat illness, support the "sick role"
●● Role of health workers in the social model
Answer: Help people gain control over their health
●● Pathogenic focus
Answer: Focuses on causes of disease
●● Salutogenic focus
Answer: Focuses on factors that support health and well-being
●● Example of medical model intervention
Answer: Screening for disease and treating those diagnosed
●● Example of social model intervention
,Answer: Improving social/environmental conditions to prevent disease
●● Holistic model of health
Answer: Considers physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health
●● Medicine Wheel concept
Answer: Health requires balance of physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual aspects
●● Physical component of health
Answer: Caring for the body and developing physical skills
●● Mental component of health
Answer: Learning and maintaining cognitive health
●● Emotional component of health
Answer: Expressing feelings and maintaining relationships
●● Spiritual component of health
Answer: Connection to culture, nature, others, or a higher being
●● Unified Model of Health
, Answer: Combines ideal state, fitness, commodity, and personal strength
●● Seedhouse's Model of Health
Answer: Health as a resource to achieve full potential
●● Limitation of Seedhouse's model
Answer: Overemphasizes individual factors, ignores social determinants
●● Biomedicine
Answer: Focus on physical/biological causes of disease
●● Disease
Answer: Medical condition preventing normal body function
●● Health (definition)
Answer: Complete physical and mental well-being, not just absence of
disease
●● Ill health
Answer: Poor health with some impairment but not total limitation
●● Illness
