NURS 299 - Module 1 Revision Exam
Questions And All Correct Answers.
culture - Answer as an element of ethnicity, refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that
include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of
racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups.
cultural values - Answer guide actions and decision-making that facilitates self-worth and self-esteem.
They shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status,
how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek
health care.
ethnicity - Answer focuses on differences in meanings, values, and ways of living.
race - Answer is associated with power and indexes the history or ongoing imposition of one's group's
authority above another.
values - Answer are beliefs about the worth of something and serve as standards that influence
behavior and thinking.
Value orientations - Answer reflect the personality type of a particular society.
health - Answer is the merging and balancing of six physical and psychologic dimensions of health:
physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
nutrition - Answer is the study of essential nutrients and the processes by which nutrients are used by
the body.
wellness - Answer is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
health promotion - Answer consists of strategies used to increase the level of health of individuals,
families, groups, and communities.
,* Knowledge
* Techniques
* Community supports
disease prevention - Answer is the recognition of a danger to health that could be reduced or alleviated
through specific actions or changes in lifestyle behaviors.
** Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
** Role of nutrition
health literacy - Answer is the ability to understand basic health concepts and apply them to one's own
health decisions.
** Formal education
** Non-formal education
** Informal education
Learning Objectives:
define health and wellness. - Answer ○ Health: is the merging and balancing of six physical and
psychologic dimensions of health: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
○ Wellness: is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
Learning Objectives:
define health promotion. - Answer -- it is very important in nursing. --
○ Health Promotion: consists of strategies used to increase the level of health of individuals, families,
groups, and communities.
* Knowledge
* Techniques
* Community supports
, Learning Objectives:
state the purpose of Healthy People 2020 (HP2020). - Answer It is a program of the US Department of
Health and Human Services (USDHHS). ○ It is based on the vision of a society in which all people live long
and healthy lives (based on ecological model of health).
- Its mission is to improve health through strengthening policy and practice.
○ (watch slide 8) & (box 1-1 from the book)
○ The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is an American survey that monitors
the dietary intake, medical history, biochemical evaluation, and measurement of American groups that
were carefully chosen to represent the total population. Also, the National Food consumption Survey
(NFCS).
Learning Objectives:
describe health literacy. - Answer it is the ability to understand basic health concepts and apply them
to one's own health decisions.
-- Formal education:
school environment.
-- Non-formal education: organize teaching or learning events such as hospitals, clinics, or community
centers.
-- Informal education: acquired through daily activities.
○ Health literacy actualization: being able to use acquired health knowledge and skills -it can be
influenced by:
-- social factors: create settings to receive support for health-promoting behaviors.
-- individual factors: choices persons make to acquire and then apply health knowledge.
-- cultural factors: encompass ethnic, religious, and racial traditions.
-- supportive health system.
Questions And All Correct Answers.
culture - Answer as an element of ethnicity, refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that
include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of
racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups.
cultural values - Answer guide actions and decision-making that facilitates self-worth and self-esteem.
They shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status,
how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek
health care.
ethnicity - Answer focuses on differences in meanings, values, and ways of living.
race - Answer is associated with power and indexes the history or ongoing imposition of one's group's
authority above another.
values - Answer are beliefs about the worth of something and serve as standards that influence
behavior and thinking.
Value orientations - Answer reflect the personality type of a particular society.
health - Answer is the merging and balancing of six physical and psychologic dimensions of health:
physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
nutrition - Answer is the study of essential nutrients and the processes by which nutrients are used by
the body.
wellness - Answer is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
health promotion - Answer consists of strategies used to increase the level of health of individuals,
families, groups, and communities.
,* Knowledge
* Techniques
* Community supports
disease prevention - Answer is the recognition of a danger to health that could be reduced or alleviated
through specific actions or changes in lifestyle behaviors.
** Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
** Role of nutrition
health literacy - Answer is the ability to understand basic health concepts and apply them to one's own
health decisions.
** Formal education
** Non-formal education
** Informal education
Learning Objectives:
define health and wellness. - Answer ○ Health: is the merging and balancing of six physical and
psychologic dimensions of health: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
○ Wellness: is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
Learning Objectives:
define health promotion. - Answer -- it is very important in nursing. --
○ Health Promotion: consists of strategies used to increase the level of health of individuals, families,
groups, and communities.
* Knowledge
* Techniques
* Community supports
, Learning Objectives:
state the purpose of Healthy People 2020 (HP2020). - Answer It is a program of the US Department of
Health and Human Services (USDHHS). ○ It is based on the vision of a society in which all people live long
and healthy lives (based on ecological model of health).
- Its mission is to improve health through strengthening policy and practice.
○ (watch slide 8) & (box 1-1 from the book)
○ The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is an American survey that monitors
the dietary intake, medical history, biochemical evaluation, and measurement of American groups that
were carefully chosen to represent the total population. Also, the National Food consumption Survey
(NFCS).
Learning Objectives:
describe health literacy. - Answer it is the ability to understand basic health concepts and apply them
to one's own health decisions.
-- Formal education:
school environment.
-- Non-formal education: organize teaching or learning events such as hospitals, clinics, or community
centers.
-- Informal education: acquired through daily activities.
○ Health literacy actualization: being able to use acquired health knowledge and skills -it can be
influenced by:
-- social factors: create settings to receive support for health-promoting behaviors.
-- individual factors: choices persons make to acquire and then apply health knowledge.
-- cultural factors: encompass ethnic, religious, and racial traditions.
-- supportive health system.
