Children's Health And Health Promotion

Question 1

Health is affected by genetics, access, environment and lifestyle. What 3 areas can be changed by health promotion?

Answer 1

Access
Environment
Lifestyle

Question 2

What’re the 3 types of health promotion action?

Answer 2

Educational (providing knowledge and education to change)
Socioeconomic (pedestrianising town centres)
Psychological (emphasis on if the individual is ready to change eg smoking)

Question 3

Name the 2 categories of health promotion and give an example of each

Answer 3

Planned (posters, chronic disease clinics, vaccinations) or opportunistic (advice within the consultation-delivered increasingly within the nursing team)

Question 4

What did the UK government do in order to evaluate the majority of health activities in primary and secondary

Answer 4

Set up NICE

NICE=National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

Question 5

What is empowerment in a healthcare sense?

Answer 5

Giving power to those who previously considered themselves unable to control situations or act on the basis of their choices

Question 6

Name one benefit of empowerment from an individual’s point of view

Answer 6

The ability to resist social pressure
The ability to utilise effective coping mechanisms when they’re faced by an unhealthy environment
A heightened consciousness of their actions

Question 7

What would the actions of a smoker be in the precontemplation stage in the cycle of change

Answer 7

Still smoking

Question 8

Secondary prevention comes into play when a disease becomes evident or detectable. When does it end?

Answer 8

When the disease becomes symptomatic

Question 9

Name 3 things that we screen for in SCO

Answer 9

Cancers- breast, bowel, cervical
AAA
Diabetic retinopathy
New born screening- DDH, CHD, hearing, cataracts
Pregnancy screening- viral inf, down’s, pre-eclampsia +DM

Question 10

What’s tertiary prevention?

Answer 10

Intervention after the onset of the disease to try and limit the effects of the disease