NUTR 430 EXAM 7 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS!!
What is the primary goal of the practice of community and public health nutrition?
Health promotion and disease prevention.
What is health promotion?
The process of enabling people to achieve their maximum potential for good health.
What is 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.
What is a determinant of health?
Range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status. It is
the interrelationships among these factors that determine individual and population health.
Which determinants of health can impact nutritional status?
Biology and genetics, lifestyle, living, working, and social conditions, community conditions,
and background conditions.
What is public health?
Fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy/
Explain why public health programs change.
Public health efforts change to what the current health concerns are.
What is a community intervention? What is its goal?
A planned activity that has a specific target in mind for the purpose of changing behavior. They
are aimed at health promotion and preventing disease by persuading people to change their
behaviors as it relates to their diets.
,What are the three basic objectives/strategies of community nutrition interventions?
Building awareness, change behaviour/lifestyles, and create supportive environments.
What is a primary prevention effort?
Health promotion by intervening PRIOR to the onset of disease.
What is a secondary prevention effort?
Primary medical care, as a SCREENING tool to see risk factors for chronic diseases early.
What is a tertiary prevention effort?
DISEASE MANAGEMENT to reduce co-morbidities or early mortality.
Individual based interventions: What is the target? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Target: either one person or a small group
Pros: easier to identify high risk people, intervention can be more personalized to a specific
group/people.
Cons: may not be identifying everyone who is at risk.
Community-based nutrition interventions:
What is the target? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Target: small groups which are put together by similarities.
Pros: may save more lives by impacting more lives than individual, may result in change in
environment.
Cos: may not be cost effective (not everyone is at risk), lacks ability to personalize.
Systems-based interventions:
What is the target? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Target: policy change that affects entire populations (ex. food labelling, folic acid fortification,
etc).
Pros: n/a
cons: n/a
, What are the 3 core responsibilities of community/public health nutrition professionals?
Give examples.
Assessment (identify problems and high-risk groups) ex. monitoring health status, data
collection.
Policy and program development (use evidence as a basis to plan a program or policy and its
implementation; may be a policy change) ex. Inform. Educate. Empower., Mobilize community
partnerships, etc.
Assurance (assure that policy/program is implemented but also evaluating its effectiveness)
Describe the concept of evidence-based practice.
Using research/science vs. solely ruling on intuition/tradition; based on a scientific body of
evidence.
Explain the components of the evidence-based process.
Formulate a good question, find relevant research, evaluate levels and quality of evidence,
evaluate totality of evidence.
Buckingham school.
Architecture can provide a supportive environment for kids to grow and have a healthful start.
What is a community needs assessment?
Evaluates health and nutrition status of a community; identifies community resources and
community's capacity to promote the public's health; considers community "wants"
what is the purpose of a community needs assessment?
To identify problems in order to come up with relevant solutions.
What are circumstances that would trigger a needs assessment?
Community understanding, generate new data, validate research, obtain funding.
What are the steps involved in conducting a community needs assessment (3).
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS!!
What is the primary goal of the practice of community and public health nutrition?
Health promotion and disease prevention.
What is health promotion?
The process of enabling people to achieve their maximum potential for good health.
What is 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.
What is a determinant of health?
Range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status. It is
the interrelationships among these factors that determine individual and population health.
Which determinants of health can impact nutritional status?
Biology and genetics, lifestyle, living, working, and social conditions, community conditions,
and background conditions.
What is public health?
Fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy/
Explain why public health programs change.
Public health efforts change to what the current health concerns are.
What is a community intervention? What is its goal?
A planned activity that has a specific target in mind for the purpose of changing behavior. They
are aimed at health promotion and preventing disease by persuading people to change their
behaviors as it relates to their diets.
,What are the three basic objectives/strategies of community nutrition interventions?
Building awareness, change behaviour/lifestyles, and create supportive environments.
What is a primary prevention effort?
Health promotion by intervening PRIOR to the onset of disease.
What is a secondary prevention effort?
Primary medical care, as a SCREENING tool to see risk factors for chronic diseases early.
What is a tertiary prevention effort?
DISEASE MANAGEMENT to reduce co-morbidities or early mortality.
Individual based interventions: What is the target? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Target: either one person or a small group
Pros: easier to identify high risk people, intervention can be more personalized to a specific
group/people.
Cons: may not be identifying everyone who is at risk.
Community-based nutrition interventions:
What is the target? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Target: small groups which are put together by similarities.
Pros: may save more lives by impacting more lives than individual, may result in change in
environment.
Cos: may not be cost effective (not everyone is at risk), lacks ability to personalize.
Systems-based interventions:
What is the target? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Target: policy change that affects entire populations (ex. food labelling, folic acid fortification,
etc).
Pros: n/a
cons: n/a
, What are the 3 core responsibilities of community/public health nutrition professionals?
Give examples.
Assessment (identify problems and high-risk groups) ex. monitoring health status, data
collection.
Policy and program development (use evidence as a basis to plan a program or policy and its
implementation; may be a policy change) ex. Inform. Educate. Empower., Mobilize community
partnerships, etc.
Assurance (assure that policy/program is implemented but also evaluating its effectiveness)
Describe the concept of evidence-based practice.
Using research/science vs. solely ruling on intuition/tradition; based on a scientific body of
evidence.
Explain the components of the evidence-based process.
Formulate a good question, find relevant research, evaluate levels and quality of evidence,
evaluate totality of evidence.
Buckingham school.
Architecture can provide a supportive environment for kids to grow and have a healthful start.
What is a community needs assessment?
Evaluates health and nutrition status of a community; identifies community resources and
community's capacity to promote the public's health; considers community "wants"
what is the purpose of a community needs assessment?
To identify problems in order to come up with relevant solutions.
What are circumstances that would trigger a needs assessment?
Community understanding, generate new data, validate research, obtain funding.
What are the steps involved in conducting a community needs assessment (3).
