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Module 1: Principles of Public health and Community Nutrition ☑: Primary goal of Public Health and Community Nutrition ☑: Health promotion and disease prevention Define concepts of "health promotion" ☑: The process of enabling people to achieve their maximum potential for good health Define concepts of "Wellness" ☑: An optimal state of health. It concerns a person's individual health physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and also their role in society and fulfilling expectations in their family, community, place of worship, workplace and environment. Successful health promotion and wellness requires what? EXCELLENCE 2 ☑: Changing how we think about health and health care --> a paradigm shift Shift from treatment-->PREVENTION Explain idea of "determinants of health" ☑: The range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status. It is interrelationships among these factors that determine individual and population health. Examples: Gender & Age, Race, Lifestyle, Environment What are the five key areas of social determinants? ☑: 1. Economic Stability -Employment, food insecurity, poverty 2. Education -Early Childhood education, high school and college education 3. Social and Community Context -Discrimination 4. Health and Health Care -Access to primary health care, health literacy EXCELLENCE 3 5. Neighborhood and Built Environment -Access to health foods, manmade structures that enhance or interfere with health promotion Define concept of "public health" practice ☑: Its to prevent problems from occurring such disease or injuries Examples: Putting up road signs to prevent car/ bike accidents Describe theoretical framework of the Socio-ecological model ☑: 1. Societal (policies, laws) 2. Community (schools, workplace, cultural values, norms, built environments) 3. Interpersonal (Friends, Family, Social networks) 4.Individual (knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, skills) What is the Socio-ecological model's role in planning public health and community nutrition interventions? ☑: The role is to be a positive influence on behaviors towards nutrition such as educating about nutrition, changing people's attitudes or beliefs and improving skills for cooking.