NGR 6638 Health Promotion Module 1-3: Midterm
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Question: What is primordial prevention?
Answer:
- works to eliminate predisposing risk factors such as environmental controls, maternal
deprivation or illiteracy.
- Avoiding the development of risk factors and/or stopping the appearance of risk factors
- Individual and mass education, whole population through public health policies
- no smoking in restaurants/government buildings, etc
Question: What is primary prevention?
Answer:
- Reduce risk factors, prevent disease well before it develops.
- Immunizations, routine consultations/primary care advice
- whole population-selected groups & healthy people
Question: What is secondary prevention?
Answer:
- uses screening procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible.
- primary risk factor reduction for those at risk of chronic diseases, falls, injury
- Involves screening asymptomatic individuals for a disease to detect it early, and with early
intervention achieve a better outcome than with later detection and treatment.
Question: What is tertiary prevention?
Answer:
- Aimed at stopping the progress of established disease.
- Rehabilitative therapies and monitoring of health to prevent complications or further
illness, injury, or disability
- For example, after a heart attack, a patient may undergo cardiac rehabilitation to prevent
a relapse
Question: Examples of Primary Prevention
Answer:
- youth violence
- personal safety (encouraging the use of seatbelts, bike helmets)
- disease prevention (counseling about safer sex practices, sunscreen, vaccinations,
chemoprophylaxis)
,- healthy lifestyle (exercise, diet)
- providing information on accident and fall prevention
- Tobacco control programs
- bully prevention
Question: Examples of Secondary Prevention
Answer:
- PSA for prostate cancer detection
- PAP smear screening
- Use of procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible
- any lab test to screen for disease (CBC for anemia, TSH for thyroid)
- US Task Force recommendations for screening examinations- mammography and PAP
smears
- Testing for hearing loss
- BP measurements to detect HTN
- lipid profile to rule out hyperlipidemia
- breast self-exam, testicular exam
Question: Examples of Tertiary Prevention
Answer:
- Rehab (cardiac rehabilitation after MI)
- support groups
- pt education (SE from meds, insulin, how to use equipment)
- Speech therapy after CVA
Question: _________ interventions are implemented after a disease or condition is evident,
limiting further harm and disability.
Answer:
Tertiary
Question: __________ _____________ consists of actions and measures that inhibit the
emergence of risk factors in the form of environmental, economic, social, and behavioral
conditions and cultural patterns of living, etc.
Answer:
Primordial prevention
(The main intervention in primordial prevention is through individual and mass education.)
Question: Example of Primordial Prevention
, Answer:
- An example of primordial prevention is many adult health problems (e.g., obesity,
hypertension) have their early origins in childhood because this is the time when lifestyles
are formed (for example, eating patterns, physical exercise).
- In primordial prevention, efforts are directed towards discouraging children from adopting
harmful lifestyles.
Question: The __________ ___________ of health is the absence of disease or disorders.
Answer:
Biomedical Model
(solutions include medication and lifestyle modifications)
- An example of the biomedical model of health would be no diagnosis or disease like
hypertension.
Question: The ________ _________ of health is the product of behaviors and habits.
Answer:
Behavioral Model
(behavior change strategies such as health communication and skill building activities)
- Examples of behavioral model of health are not smoking, exercise, and no alcohol
consumption.
Question: The _____________ ___________ model of health is the product of social, economic,
and environmental determinants that provide incentives and barriers to health.
Answer:
Socio-Environmental
(solutions that remove barriers to health through advocacy, self-help/mutual aid community
mobilization, policy change etc.)
- Examples of socio-environmental model of health are financial stability, employment, and
support from family and/or friends.
Question: A __________ is a supposition or system of ideas intended to explain something,
especially on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
Answer:
theory
- There is no right or wrong theory for health promotion.
- Theory should match the individuals or communities you are working with.
Question: - The _________ __________ _________ is a theory-based framework for
understanding the multifaceted and interactive effects of personal and environmental
factors.
Review Questions with 100% Verified Answers Latest
Update
Question: What is primordial prevention?
Answer:
- works to eliminate predisposing risk factors such as environmental controls, maternal
deprivation or illiteracy.
- Avoiding the development of risk factors and/or stopping the appearance of risk factors
- Individual and mass education, whole population through public health policies
- no smoking in restaurants/government buildings, etc
Question: What is primary prevention?
Answer:
- Reduce risk factors, prevent disease well before it develops.
- Immunizations, routine consultations/primary care advice
- whole population-selected groups & healthy people
Question: What is secondary prevention?
Answer:
- uses screening procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible.
- primary risk factor reduction for those at risk of chronic diseases, falls, injury
- Involves screening asymptomatic individuals for a disease to detect it early, and with early
intervention achieve a better outcome than with later detection and treatment.
Question: What is tertiary prevention?
Answer:
- Aimed at stopping the progress of established disease.
- Rehabilitative therapies and monitoring of health to prevent complications or further
illness, injury, or disability
- For example, after a heart attack, a patient may undergo cardiac rehabilitation to prevent
a relapse
Question: Examples of Primary Prevention
Answer:
- youth violence
- personal safety (encouraging the use of seatbelts, bike helmets)
- disease prevention (counseling about safer sex practices, sunscreen, vaccinations,
chemoprophylaxis)
,- healthy lifestyle (exercise, diet)
- providing information on accident and fall prevention
- Tobacco control programs
- bully prevention
Question: Examples of Secondary Prevention
Answer:
- PSA for prostate cancer detection
- PAP smear screening
- Use of procedures to detect and treat serious disease as soon as possible
- any lab test to screen for disease (CBC for anemia, TSH for thyroid)
- US Task Force recommendations for screening examinations- mammography and PAP
smears
- Testing for hearing loss
- BP measurements to detect HTN
- lipid profile to rule out hyperlipidemia
- breast self-exam, testicular exam
Question: Examples of Tertiary Prevention
Answer:
- Rehab (cardiac rehabilitation after MI)
- support groups
- pt education (SE from meds, insulin, how to use equipment)
- Speech therapy after CVA
Question: _________ interventions are implemented after a disease or condition is evident,
limiting further harm and disability.
Answer:
Tertiary
Question: __________ _____________ consists of actions and measures that inhibit the
emergence of risk factors in the form of environmental, economic, social, and behavioral
conditions and cultural patterns of living, etc.
Answer:
Primordial prevention
(The main intervention in primordial prevention is through individual and mass education.)
Question: Example of Primordial Prevention
, Answer:
- An example of primordial prevention is many adult health problems (e.g., obesity,
hypertension) have their early origins in childhood because this is the time when lifestyles
are formed (for example, eating patterns, physical exercise).
- In primordial prevention, efforts are directed towards discouraging children from adopting
harmful lifestyles.
Question: The __________ ___________ of health is the absence of disease or disorders.
Answer:
Biomedical Model
(solutions include medication and lifestyle modifications)
- An example of the biomedical model of health would be no diagnosis or disease like
hypertension.
Question: The ________ _________ of health is the product of behaviors and habits.
Answer:
Behavioral Model
(behavior change strategies such as health communication and skill building activities)
- Examples of behavioral model of health are not smoking, exercise, and no alcohol
consumption.
Question: The _____________ ___________ model of health is the product of social, economic,
and environmental determinants that provide incentives and barriers to health.
Answer:
Socio-Environmental
(solutions that remove barriers to health through advocacy, self-help/mutual aid community
mobilization, policy change etc.)
- Examples of socio-environmental model of health are financial stability, employment, and
support from family and/or friends.
Question: A __________ is a supposition or system of ideas intended to explain something,
especially on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
Answer:
theory
- There is no right or wrong theory for health promotion.
- Theory should match the individuals or communities you are working with.
Question: - The _________ __________ _________ is a theory-based framework for
understanding the multifaceted and interactive effects of personal and environmental
factors.
