PUBH 302 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
Define health promotion - Answer-- The combination of educational (micro) and
environmental (macro) supports for actions and living conducive to health
- Purposeful and organized
- Planned approach/program/intervention (macro)
- Involves involuntary choice
Define health education - Answer-- Any combination of learning experiences designed
to facilitate voluntary actions (behaviors) conducive to health
- Micro level
o Focuses on individuals
- Relies on voluntary choice
Explain how health promotion and health education are related - Answer-- Health
education is usually embedded in promotion
- Utilizes a combo of approaches
- Well planned
- Focus on health, quality of life, wellbeing, positive
Health promotion levels - Answer-1. individual
2. interpersonal
3. institutional
4. community
5. public policy
individual level - Answer-a. Knowledge, skills, attitudes, beliefs, self-efficacy
interpersonal level - Answer-a. Social support systems, social networks, social norms
institutional level - Answer-a. Organizational characteristics and their rules and
regulations, physical characteristics
community level - Answer-a. Relationships between organizations, groups, physical
environment
public policy level - Answer-a. Laws and policies at the local, state ir national levels
, Explain assumptions of community-based health promotion - Answer-o Comprehensive,
long-term approach
o Changes behavior by influencing cultural norms, enhancing environmental supports
o Involves all levels: family, media, schools, worksites, gov
- Role of health promoters - Answer-o Conduct needs assessments
o Identify health problems/develop problem statements using data
o Plan programs
o Implement programs
o Evaluate programs
o Act as a resource
o Advocate
o Communicate healthy and risky behaviors
o Create educational materials
o Conduct research
infectious diseases - Answer-- Caused by different classes of pathogenic organisms
(germs)
- Leading cause of death worldwide
Communicable diseases - Answer-- Infectious disease that may be passed from
individual to individual
- Easily spread from one species to another
differences between communicable and infectious diseases - Answer-- ALL
COMMUNICABLE ARE INFECTIOUS
- NOT ALL INFECTIOUS ARE COMMUNICABLE
Direct route of transmission and examples - Answer-- Skin-skin (herpes type 1)
- Mucous-mucous (STIs)
- Across the placenta (Rubella, HIV)
- Through breast milk (HIV)
- Sneeze-cough (influenza, TB)
Indirect route of transmission and examples - Answer-- Food-borne (Salmonella)
- Water-borne (cholera)
- Vector-borne (malaria)
- Air-borne from person to object (chickenpox, colds)
3 components of the epi triad - Answer--agent
-environment
-host
components of agent - Answer-- Infectivity
- Pathogenicity
- Virulence
- Immunogenicity
ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
Define health promotion - Answer-- The combination of educational (micro) and
environmental (macro) supports for actions and living conducive to health
- Purposeful and organized
- Planned approach/program/intervention (macro)
- Involves involuntary choice
Define health education - Answer-- Any combination of learning experiences designed
to facilitate voluntary actions (behaviors) conducive to health
- Micro level
o Focuses on individuals
- Relies on voluntary choice
Explain how health promotion and health education are related - Answer-- Health
education is usually embedded in promotion
- Utilizes a combo of approaches
- Well planned
- Focus on health, quality of life, wellbeing, positive
Health promotion levels - Answer-1. individual
2. interpersonal
3. institutional
4. community
5. public policy
individual level - Answer-a. Knowledge, skills, attitudes, beliefs, self-efficacy
interpersonal level - Answer-a. Social support systems, social networks, social norms
institutional level - Answer-a. Organizational characteristics and their rules and
regulations, physical characteristics
community level - Answer-a. Relationships between organizations, groups, physical
environment
public policy level - Answer-a. Laws and policies at the local, state ir national levels
, Explain assumptions of community-based health promotion - Answer-o Comprehensive,
long-term approach
o Changes behavior by influencing cultural norms, enhancing environmental supports
o Involves all levels: family, media, schools, worksites, gov
- Role of health promoters - Answer-o Conduct needs assessments
o Identify health problems/develop problem statements using data
o Plan programs
o Implement programs
o Evaluate programs
o Act as a resource
o Advocate
o Communicate healthy and risky behaviors
o Create educational materials
o Conduct research
infectious diseases - Answer-- Caused by different classes of pathogenic organisms
(germs)
- Leading cause of death worldwide
Communicable diseases - Answer-- Infectious disease that may be passed from
individual to individual
- Easily spread from one species to another
differences between communicable and infectious diseases - Answer-- ALL
COMMUNICABLE ARE INFECTIOUS
- NOT ALL INFECTIOUS ARE COMMUNICABLE
Direct route of transmission and examples - Answer-- Skin-skin (herpes type 1)
- Mucous-mucous (STIs)
- Across the placenta (Rubella, HIV)
- Through breast milk (HIV)
- Sneeze-cough (influenza, TB)
Indirect route of transmission and examples - Answer-- Food-borne (Salmonella)
- Water-borne (cholera)
- Vector-borne (malaria)
- Air-borne from person to object (chickenpox, colds)
3 components of the epi triad - Answer--agent
-environment
-host
components of agent - Answer-- Infectivity
- Pathogenicity
- Virulence
- Immunogenicity
