Community and Public Nutrition

Question 1

What is public health?

Answer 1

Improving the health of populations; initiatives that improve the health of the whole

Question 2

What are the four tenets of public health practice?

Answer 2

1. Health promotion
2. Health protection
3. Health surveillance
4. Prevention of death, disease, injury

Question 3

What is the aim of public health practice?

Answer 3

prevent disease by reducing risk factors that are related to disease and altering unhealthy behaviours that can lead to disease

Question 4

What is heath promotion?

Answer 4

The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health

Question 5

What do dietitians in public health nutrition do? (6)

Answer 5

1. Create supportive environments that improve access to
   affordable and healthy food
2. Champion public health principles, actions and interventions
3. Assess program effectiveness and success in terms of
   population health
4. Create guidelines for healthy eating
5. Advocate for nutrition related issues such as food labelling guidelines, breastfeeding promotion, school and preschool nutrition policies and guidelines, and a sustainable food system.
6. Use strategies focused on the social determinants of health to build healthy communities

Question 6

What are the 3 buckets of prevention?

Answer 6

1. Traditional clinical prevention
2. Innovative Clinical Prevention
3. Total Population or Community-Wide Prevention

Question 7

How do we make the healthy choice the easy choice?

Answer 7

We must change the food environments (physical, social, economic, policy) in which people live

Question 8

Why is the socioecological model important in. nutrition educations?

Answer 8

Individuals often do not choose to a eat a poor quality diet, so actions directed solely at the individual is likely not enough to change dietary behaviour

Question 9

What is public health serveillance?

Answer 9

the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice

Question 10

What is the CCHS?

Answer 10

Canadian Community Health Survey

Question 11

What does the CCHS do?

Answer 11

Collect national data on health and its determinants (ex. monitoring of difference in the prevalence of a disease across socioeconomic groups informs programs, policies, and research)

Question 12

What are SDoH?

Answer 12

Social Determinants of Health

Question 13

The SDoH determine _______,

Answer 13

Health inequities, which are the unfair and avoidable health difference between different groups of people

Question 14

The SDoH are the ______ in which _______

Answer 14

conditions, people are born, grow, live and age

Question 15

What is policy?

Answer 15

a consensus on the ideas that form the basis of action and hence underline decision-making

Question 16

what does public health policy focus on?

Answer 16

The broader structural and social determinants of health

Question 17

Public health policy is the ______

Answer 17

laws, rules, regulations, actions, and decisions implemented within society in order to promote wellness and ensure that specific health goals are met.

Question 18

Canada needs a comprehensive approach to improve healthy diets that includes ____ _____ _____

Answer 18

strong governmental policy

Question 19

What kinds of policies can governments use to change health behaviours?

Answer 19

From voluntary to mandatory

Question 20

What the vision of the food policy for Canada?

Answer 20

All people in Canada are able to access a sufficient amount of safe, nutritious, and culturally diverse food.
– Canada’s food system is resilient and innovative, sustains our environment and supports our economy.

Question 21

How does the healthy eating strategy aim to make it easier for Canadians to make the healthier choice? (3)

Answer 21

1. Improve healthy eating information
2. Improving nutrition quality of foods
3. protecting vulnerable populations

Question 22

Why is front-of-package nutrition labelling helpful?

Answer 22

It allows Canadaians to quickly and easily identify foods high in saturated fat, sugars, and sodium

Question 23

How is advocacy an aspect of dietetic care in public health?

Answer 23

Dietitians have a responsibility to exert their power and knowledge to advocate for social changes required to overcome challenges to nutritional health for the public

Question 24

What does public health advocacy mean?

Answer 24

To influence and obtain support for action on a public health issue

Question 25

Common elements of public health advocacy

Answer 25

Focus on changing upstream factors like:
- policies
- laws
- institutional practices
- prices
- product standards

Question 26

6 Advocacy strategies

Answer 26

1. Direct meetings with decision-makers
2. Serve on a policy working group
3. Prepare a policy brief or position paper that presents evidence-base for desired changes
4. Strategic use of news and social media to influence health public policies through shaping debate about the topic
5. Use a Twitter profile that establishes your credibility
6. Write to the Editor of a Newspaper