Community Nutrition Exam 1 with correct
answers
Public Health - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔An effort organized by
society to protect, promote, and restore the peoples health through the
application of science, practical skills, and collective actions
- refers to those community-based programs conducted by a gov agency whose
official mandate is the delivery of health services to individuals living in a
particular area
- nutritionists provide nutritional services through gov agencies
Community - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔A group of people who reside
in a specific locality and who interact and connect through definite social
structures to fulfill a wide range of daily needs
4 components:
-people
-geographical locations
-social interaction
-common ties
Community Nutrition - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Discipline that
strives to improve the health, nutrition, and well being of individuals and
groups within communities
-any program whose target is the community, whether funded through
public/private funds
,3 Areas of Community Nutrition - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1. People:
individuals who benefit from programs and services; health of the people in
the community
2. Policy: course of action chosen by public officials to address a problem.
Policies direct laws, regulations and programs
3. Programs: Instruments used by CN to seek behavior changes that improve
nutrition status and health
- wide ranging
- target specific status
Social and Economic Trends in CN - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1.
aging population
2. generational diversity
3. inc demands for nutrition and health care services
4. inc ethnic diversity
Ten Leading causes of death - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1. heart
disease
2. cancer
3. chronic respiratory disease
4. stroke
5. accidents
6. diabetes
7. alzheimers
8. pneumonia
9. nephritis
, 10. septicemia
Health - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔A state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease
-anatomic inegrity
-ability to perform personally-valued family, work and community roles
-ability to deal with physical, biological and social stress
-a feeling of well being
-freedom from risk of disease and death
The health continuum - Levels of prevention - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Well population - Primary Prevention: promote healthy behaviors and
environments across the lifespan. Create supportive environment. Community
campaigns for wellness, veggies in school
At Risk - Secondary Prevention/Early Detection: screening, periodic health
examinations, early intervention, control risk factors - lifestyle, medication.
Advocating restaurants with nutritional info. Free cholesterol screening
Established Disease - Disease Management and Tertiary Prevention: treatment
and acute care, complications management, self management
Controlled Chronic Disease - Disease Management and Tertiary Prevention:
continuuing care, maintenance, rehabilitation, self management. Pass
legislation for special diets
Texas concerns - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔teen pregnancy
answers
Public Health - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔An effort organized by
society to protect, promote, and restore the peoples health through the
application of science, practical skills, and collective actions
- refers to those community-based programs conducted by a gov agency whose
official mandate is the delivery of health services to individuals living in a
particular area
- nutritionists provide nutritional services through gov agencies
Community - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔A group of people who reside
in a specific locality and who interact and connect through definite social
structures to fulfill a wide range of daily needs
4 components:
-people
-geographical locations
-social interaction
-common ties
Community Nutrition - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Discipline that
strives to improve the health, nutrition, and well being of individuals and
groups within communities
-any program whose target is the community, whether funded through
public/private funds
,3 Areas of Community Nutrition - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1. People:
individuals who benefit from programs and services; health of the people in
the community
2. Policy: course of action chosen by public officials to address a problem.
Policies direct laws, regulations and programs
3. Programs: Instruments used by CN to seek behavior changes that improve
nutrition status and health
- wide ranging
- target specific status
Social and Economic Trends in CN - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1.
aging population
2. generational diversity
3. inc demands for nutrition and health care services
4. inc ethnic diversity
Ten Leading causes of death - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔1. heart
disease
2. cancer
3. chronic respiratory disease
4. stroke
5. accidents
6. diabetes
7. alzheimers
8. pneumonia
9. nephritis
, 10. septicemia
Health - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔A state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease
-anatomic inegrity
-ability to perform personally-valued family, work and community roles
-ability to deal with physical, biological and social stress
-a feeling of well being
-freedom from risk of disease and death
The health continuum - Levels of prevention - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Well population - Primary Prevention: promote healthy behaviors and
environments across the lifespan. Create supportive environment. Community
campaigns for wellness, veggies in school
At Risk - Secondary Prevention/Early Detection: screening, periodic health
examinations, early intervention, control risk factors - lifestyle, medication.
Advocating restaurants with nutritional info. Free cholesterol screening
Established Disease - Disease Management and Tertiary Prevention: treatment
and acute care, complications management, self management
Controlled Chronic Disease - Disease Management and Tertiary Prevention:
continuuing care, maintenance, rehabilitation, self management. Pass
legislation for special diets
Texas concerns - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔teen pregnancy
