Public Health 150 Week 8 || QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS.
Health education and behavior change core concepts correct answers ~Health Education
~Health Promotion
~Health Literacy
Health Education correct answers Health education is any combination of learning
experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing
their knowledge or influencing their attitudes
Health Education: where correct answers ~Many health education-related activities occur in
schools, workplaces, clinics and communities
Health Education: topics covered correct answers ~Healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco
use prevention, mental health, HIV/AIDS prevention and safety
Health education: Health educators correct answers Hard-working, enthusiastic and dedicated
even though they often work with limited budgets and lack the kind of recognition given to
those serving in other parts of the health services system
Health Education: the challenges correct answers ~Limited to informational materials to raise
public awareness
~Division of labor between work and health education
~Limited specialized training
~Limited access to tools required to be effective
~Confusion between health education and promotion
Health promotion circles correct answers ~Health education: educational efforts to affect
behavior change
~Prevention: Laws to promote health (e.g., seat belt legislation)
~Health protection: regulations (e.g., fluoridation)
~Health promotion=health education x healthy public policy
Health literacy definition correct answers ~The degree to which people are able to access,
understand, appraise and communicate information to engage with the demands of different
health contexts in order to promote and maintain good health across the life-course.
~One of the outcomes of health education
Health literacy facts correct answers ~People with low health literacy have poor overall
health
~Low health literacy leads to misuse of medication and misunderstanding of health
information
~Low health literacy leads preventable use of health services, including emergency care
~People often wait longer to seek medical health until health problems reach a crisis state
Health education and behavior change goal correct answers ~To improve the well-being and
self-sufficiency of individuals, families, organizations, and communities
~Achieving this goal will require behavior change at every level
, Types of Programs/Interventions correct answers ~Biomedical interventions
~Behavioral Interventions
~Structural Interventions
Biomedical vs behavioral intervention relationship correct answers Almost all biomedical
interventions require behavior changes - by patients, providers, organizations, etc.
Biomedical interventions correct answers Vaccines, pharmaceutical treatments, and medical
devices to prevent and treat disease
Behavioral interventions correct answers ~Programs that help people change their behaviors
to prevent and manage disease
Directly target people to change their behaviors:
~Adoption and utilization of tools or services
~Adherence to treatments and lifestyle recommendations
Structural interventions correct answers Change in access, availability, or acceptability
~Policies, prices, payers, laws
~Physical and social environments (culture), organizations, communities
Examples of structural interventions correct answers ~Removing the pump handle
~Sewers
~Protected and purified water
~Iodized salt
~Vehicle air bags
~Building regulations
~Tobacco control
~Closing bath houses
Health behavior theory #1 correct answers ~Research shows that those interventions "most
likely to achieve desired outcomes are based on a clear understanding of targeted health
behaviors, and the environmental context in which they occur"
Health behavior theory #2 correct answers For help with developing, managing and
evaluating these interventions, health education practitioners can turn to several strategic
planning models that are based on health behavior theories.
Health behavior theory #3 correct answers ~No one theory dominates the health education
practice
Health behavior theory #4 correct answers A theory should be chosen based on the topic and
target population
~Logical
~Consistent with everyday observation
~Similar to those used in previous successful programs
~Supported by past research in the same area
Two Examples of health behavior theories correct answers ~Transtheoretical model of
change
COMPLETE ANSWERS.
Health education and behavior change core concepts correct answers ~Health Education
~Health Promotion
~Health Literacy
Health Education correct answers Health education is any combination of learning
experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing
their knowledge or influencing their attitudes
Health Education: where correct answers ~Many health education-related activities occur in
schools, workplaces, clinics and communities
Health Education: topics covered correct answers ~Healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco
use prevention, mental health, HIV/AIDS prevention and safety
Health education: Health educators correct answers Hard-working, enthusiastic and dedicated
even though they often work with limited budgets and lack the kind of recognition given to
those serving in other parts of the health services system
Health Education: the challenges correct answers ~Limited to informational materials to raise
public awareness
~Division of labor between work and health education
~Limited specialized training
~Limited access to tools required to be effective
~Confusion between health education and promotion
Health promotion circles correct answers ~Health education: educational efforts to affect
behavior change
~Prevention: Laws to promote health (e.g., seat belt legislation)
~Health protection: regulations (e.g., fluoridation)
~Health promotion=health education x healthy public policy
Health literacy definition correct answers ~The degree to which people are able to access,
understand, appraise and communicate information to engage with the demands of different
health contexts in order to promote and maintain good health across the life-course.
~One of the outcomes of health education
Health literacy facts correct answers ~People with low health literacy have poor overall
health
~Low health literacy leads to misuse of medication and misunderstanding of health
information
~Low health literacy leads preventable use of health services, including emergency care
~People often wait longer to seek medical health until health problems reach a crisis state
Health education and behavior change goal correct answers ~To improve the well-being and
self-sufficiency of individuals, families, organizations, and communities
~Achieving this goal will require behavior change at every level
, Types of Programs/Interventions correct answers ~Biomedical interventions
~Behavioral Interventions
~Structural Interventions
Biomedical vs behavioral intervention relationship correct answers Almost all biomedical
interventions require behavior changes - by patients, providers, organizations, etc.
Biomedical interventions correct answers Vaccines, pharmaceutical treatments, and medical
devices to prevent and treat disease
Behavioral interventions correct answers ~Programs that help people change their behaviors
to prevent and manage disease
Directly target people to change their behaviors:
~Adoption and utilization of tools or services
~Adherence to treatments and lifestyle recommendations
Structural interventions correct answers Change in access, availability, or acceptability
~Policies, prices, payers, laws
~Physical and social environments (culture), organizations, communities
Examples of structural interventions correct answers ~Removing the pump handle
~Sewers
~Protected and purified water
~Iodized salt
~Vehicle air bags
~Building regulations
~Tobacco control
~Closing bath houses
Health behavior theory #1 correct answers ~Research shows that those interventions "most
likely to achieve desired outcomes are based on a clear understanding of targeted health
behaviors, and the environmental context in which they occur"
Health behavior theory #2 correct answers For help with developing, managing and
evaluating these interventions, health education practitioners can turn to several strategic
planning models that are based on health behavior theories.
Health behavior theory #3 correct answers ~No one theory dominates the health education
practice
Health behavior theory #4 correct answers A theory should be chosen based on the topic and
target population
~Logical
~Consistent with everyday observation
~Similar to those used in previous successful programs
~Supported by past research in the same area
Two Examples of health behavior theories correct answers ~Transtheoretical model of
change
