Health Education 110 - Final Exam Study Guide Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

HEALTH EDUCATION 110 - FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS

Question:
1. What is the medical health model?
Answer:
This is a binary model where only your physical health is considered in assessing your health. "Are you
ill?" "Are you injured?"

Question:
2. What is the holistic health model?
Answer:
This model (adopted in the 1980s) factors in the importance of social and emotional health to physical
health.

Question:
3. What is the wellness health model?
Answer:
This is our current model of measuring health. This model factors in the 6 dimensions of wellness into
determining how healthy you are. This model tells us that we should be thriving rather than just surviving.

Question:
4. Which of these is the proper version of the Indigenous medicine wheel?
Answer:
Spiritual, Emotional, Mental, & Physical

Question:
5. What is a social determinant of health?
Answer:
This is anything that impacts our well-being in terms of health.

Question:
6. What are the social determinants of health (examples)?

,Answer:
- Income (including distribution)
- Education
- Employment, working conditions and job security
- Early childhood development
- Food security
- Housing
- Gender
- Social safety network
- Social exclusion
- Aboriginal status
- Race
- Health services (access to them)
- Disabilities

Question:
7. Methods of overcoming social determinants:
Answer:
1. Social inclusion
2. Promoting full employment, job security and healthy working conditions
3. Protecting access to healthcare
4. Protecting public education
5. Ensuring adequate housing and food supply
6. Reducing income disparities

Question:
8. What are the 6 dimensions of wellness?
Answer:
Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Environmental, Interpersonal (social), Spiritual

Question:
9. What does physical wellness look like?
Answer:
- Eating well
- Exercise
- Avoiding harmful habits
- Practicing safer sex
- Recognizing disease or illness symptoms
- Seeing your doctor for checkups
- Avoiding injuries

Question:
10. What does emotional wellness look like?

,Answer:
- Optimism
- Trust
- Self-esteem
- Self-acceptance
- Self-confidence
- The ability to understand and accept your own feelings
- The ability to share your feelings with others

Question:
11. What does intellectual wellness look like?
Answer:
- Being open to new ideas
- Capacity to question and think critically about concepts
- Motivation to master new skills
- Having a sense of humour
- Being creative and curious
- Learning throughout your life

Question:
12. What does environmental wellness look like?
Answer:
- Having an abundance of clean natural resources
- Maintaining sustainable development
- Recycling whenever possible
- Reducing pollution and waste

Question:
13. What does interpersonal/social wellness look like?
Answer:
- Having good communication skills
- Having the capacity for intimacy
- Having the ability to establish and maintain satisfying relationships
- Having the ability to cultivate a support system of friends and family

Question:
14. What does spiritual wellness look like?
Answer:
- Having the capacity for love
- Feeling joy
- Being compassionate
- Being forgiving
- Being altruistic
- Having a sense of fulfillment
- Caring for others
- Having a sense of purpose
- Feeling like you belong

, Question:
15. (Optional) What are some other areas of wellness that could be considered?
Answer:
- Occupational
- Financial
- Community
- Sexual
- Media
- Safety
- Cultural

Question:
16. What are the 3 essential factors to wellness?
Answer:
1. The total individual (the 6 certain categories and whatever else is applicable to said individual)
2. The dynamic of progressing to higher potential (Always looking for becoming more well)
3. Functioning and adapting to daily living during a crisis (Coping and managing that challenge)

Question:
17. What is primary care prevention?
Answer:
This is any action taken before an injury or illness can occur.
- Promoting information that may be beneficial to our health
- Taking precautionary measures for a risky activity (and abstaining from it if necessary)

Question:
18. What is secondary care prevention?
Answer:
Any form of early action to intervene to eliminate or reduce an injury or illness when it happens, or slightly
after.

Question:
19. What is tertiary care action?
Answer:
Any treatment after the injury or illness has already occurred.
- Traditional healthcare
- Alberta Health Services
- Treatment for an injury (i.e. broken leg)

Question:
20. What is the difference between health and wellness?
Answer:
Health focuses on the overall condition of the body or mind in the presence or absence of illness/injury.
Wellness focuses on being at optimal health and vitality, encompassing all dimensions of wellbeing.

Question:
21. What is the difference between someone who is healthy and unhealthy?