Chapters 5,6,7 bad definitions

Question 1

Build healthy public policy

Answer 1

This action area relates to introducing policies that work to encourage healthy behaviours among individuals to reduce their risk of disease, it relates to introducing laws and policies that make healthy behaviours easier choices.

Question 2

Create supportive environments

Answer 2

This action area relates to modifying the physical and sociocultural environments to make them more conductive to healthy lives. It includes providing a safe physical and sociocultural environment and that the resources required for good health and wellbeing are sustainable.

Question 3

Strengthen community action

Answer 3

This action area relates to building links between individuals and the community, such that the community works together to achieve a common goal. The community has a sense of ownership

Question 4

Develop personal skills

Answer 4

This action area relates to education, Health-related knowledge and skills that improve their h&w. This can be in school, work settings, families, media, by government and non-government organisations

Question 5

Define addresses the broader determinants of health

Answer 5

Address all the determinants of health including biological, sociocultural, and environmental factors. Focus is on reducing impact of determinants that can contribute to inequalities in h&w

Question 6

Define involves inter-sectorial collabaration

Answer 6

Integrated action between govt. depts, the private sector and the health sector

Question 7

Define acts to reduce social inequities

Answer 7

Reducing inequities that exist in relation to health services and health promotion messages, factors like gender, age, race, location, and physical environment

Question 8

Define acts to enable access to healthcare

Answer 8

Improving access to healthcare based on need, affordability, appropriateness and accessibility for all. Addresses barriers to access, such as location, culture, language, transport, discrimination, accessibility of buildings, cost & knowlege

Question 9

Define empowers individuals and communities

Answer 9

Individuals and communities are given knowlege, skills and resources enabling them to take control over their health related descisions.

Question 10

Reorient health services

Answer 10

The health system promotes h&w before symptoms appear rather than waiting for them to appear and then diagnosing, trating and trying to cure. Doctors, nurses, and health care professional take on the role of educatiors.

Question 11

8 points to describe the Australian guide to healthy eating

Answer 11

• Food selection tool based on ADG’s 2 & 3
• Poster designed to help general public make better food selections
• Circle broken down into 5 wedges representing the 5 food groups
• Size of wedge reflect proportion of each food group that should be consumed on a daily basis
• Tap representing ADG 2
• ADG 2 written in top left
• Mono and polyunsaturated fats in bottom left with ‘use small amounts’
• Discretionary foods in bottom right with ‘only sometimes and in small amounts’

Question 12

NDIS disability requirements

Answer 12

• Permanent disability
• Significant disability (requires assistance from others/technology or equipment)
• Disability affects social and economic participation
• Require lifelong NDIS support

Question 13

Define Public Health

Answer 13

The way in which governments monitor, regulate, and promote h&w and prevent illness to improve the HS of the entire population