Prevention and Policy – questions without answers
Lecture 1: Introduction
1. Name two reasons why professionals/researchers have to collaborate with policy makers.
2. Name at least two challenges for collaboration between prevention and policy.
Lecture 2: The power of policy to improve health
1. What is the most important disease in terms of burden?
2. Name at least three reasons for the increase in life expectancy.
3. Which four diseases are expected to get more diagnosis in the future?
4. Which statement is true:
1) There will be more people with disease, but not more with disability.
2) There will be more people with disability, but not more with disease.
5. What does the ‘burden of disease analysis’ of the WHO provide? Which measure is used to assess
the overall burden of disease? Explain what this measure means.
6. Name at least three successes of prevention in the last 40 years.
7. Match the content with the right level:
Organizations, social institutions.
Families, friends, social networks.
Knowledge, attitude, skills.
Relationship between organizations.
National, state, local laws and regulations.
Public Policy
Community
Organizational
Interpersonal
Individual
8. Health inequity inequity is a persistent problem. Name at least two problems caused by health
inequity.
9. What ‘shift’ is needed?
10. Name at least two advantages of policy in health.
11. What are the three important sources of behavior of the ‘behavior chain wheel’?
12. Finnish the sentences:
Groups with high SEP benefit more from...
Groups with low SEP benefit more from....
13. Describe for ‘community interventions’ and ‘individual interventions’ at least three factors that
affect equity (including evidence for effectiveness and downstream/midstream).
Lecture 3: Policy and policy development
1. Which one is not a characteristic of public policy?
a. Inside the circle of influence of individuals.
b. Public policy is always funded by general means.
c. Public policy is always about communal resources that can solve social problems and
improve conditions.
d. There are mostly budgets.
2. When does a problem become a public problem? Give an example of a public problem.
3. Name at least three rationales for government action.
4. Is the following statement true or false?
Lecture 1: Introduction
1. Name two reasons why professionals/researchers have to collaborate with policy makers.
2. Name at least two challenges for collaboration between prevention and policy.
Lecture 2: The power of policy to improve health
1. What is the most important disease in terms of burden?
2. Name at least three reasons for the increase in life expectancy.
3. Which four diseases are expected to get more diagnosis in the future?
4. Which statement is true:
1) There will be more people with disease, but not more with disability.
2) There will be more people with disability, but not more with disease.
5. What does the ‘burden of disease analysis’ of the WHO provide? Which measure is used to assess
the overall burden of disease? Explain what this measure means.
6. Name at least three successes of prevention in the last 40 years.
7. Match the content with the right level:
Organizations, social institutions.
Families, friends, social networks.
Knowledge, attitude, skills.
Relationship between organizations.
National, state, local laws and regulations.
Public Policy
Community
Organizational
Interpersonal
Individual
8. Health inequity inequity is a persistent problem. Name at least two problems caused by health
inequity.
9. What ‘shift’ is needed?
10. Name at least two advantages of policy in health.
11. What are the three important sources of behavior of the ‘behavior chain wheel’?
12. Finnish the sentences:
Groups with high SEP benefit more from...
Groups with low SEP benefit more from....
13. Describe for ‘community interventions’ and ‘individual interventions’ at least three factors that
affect equity (including evidence for effectiveness and downstream/midstream).
Lecture 3: Policy and policy development
1. Which one is not a characteristic of public policy?
a. Inside the circle of influence of individuals.
b. Public policy is always funded by general means.
c. Public policy is always about communal resources that can solve social problems and
improve conditions.
d. There are mostly budgets.
2. When does a problem become a public problem? Give an example of a public problem.
3. Name at least three rationales for government action.
4. Is the following statement true or false?
