Core 1

Question 1

Action areas of the Ottawa charter

Answer 1

1- developing personal skills 
2- creating supportive environments 
3- strengthening community action 
4- reorienting health services 
5- building healthy public policy

Question 2

Determinants of health

Answer 2

factors associated with a person’s life that can be modifiable or non-modifiable

Question 3

Dimensions of health

Answer 3

social, emotional, physical, mental, spiritual

Question 4

Dynamic Health

Answer 4

refers to changes in health that can occur at any time

Question 5

Groups responsible for health promotion

Answer 5

health promotion is the responsibility of individual’s, communities, non-government organisations, and all levels of government

Question 6

Health continuum

Answer 6

a line of health where people are positioned depending of their health at any given time, it is continually changing

Question 7

Health promotion

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Mental health

Answer 8

the capacity to express our emotions, adapt to a range of demands and to function productively

Question 9

Modifiable health determinants

Answer 9

factors relating to a person’s health that can be changed or altered

Question 10

Physical environment

Answer 10

both natural and built aspects of where a person lives that can impact on an individual’s health

Question 11

Physical health

Answer 11

the wellness of the body and the absence of chronic pain or discomfort

Question 12

Political environment

Answer 12

the policies and laws set by the Governments that can impact on the health of individuals

Question 13

Responsibilities

Answer 13

actions that we must take and tasks we must do

Question 14

Rights

Answer 14

entitlements that we all have

Question 15

Social construct

Answer 15

a concept that recognises that people have different views based on their social circumstances and ways of seeing, interpreting, interrelating and interacting with their environment

Question 16

Social health

Answer 16

our ability to interact with other people in an interdependent and cooperative way

Question 17

Social justice

Answer 17

supports measures that aim at decreasing or eliminating inequity

Question 18

Sociocultural environment

Answer 18

aspects such as ethnicity, gender, education and geographical location that can impact on an individual’s health

Question 19

Socioeconomic environment

Answer 19

how the money status of an individual can impact their health

Question 20

Spiritual health

Answer 20

relates to a sense of purpose and meaning in our life, and to feeling connected with others and society

Question 21

Stress

Answer 21

refers to the physical and psychological reactions that people exhibit in response to a particular stimulus

Question 22

absence of disease

Answer 22

old definition of health

Question 23

world health organisation (WHO)

Answer 23

what organisation changed the old definition of health

Question 24

holistic approach

Answer 24

taking all aspects into consideration

Question 25

medical technology

Answer 25

improvements in what allowed diseases to be controlled

Question 26

Collaborative approach

Answer 26

working together

Question 27

Health is not static

Answer 27

our health never remains the same

Question 28

mortality

Answer 28

the number of deaths

Question 29

morbidity

Answer 29

the number of accidents and illness

Question 30

sedentary

Answer 30

lack of physical activity. (inactive lifestyle)

Question 31

Community values

Answer 31

what is expected of you in the community

Question 32

Six groups experiencing health inequities

Answer 32

1. the elderly
2. the disabled
3. australians born overseas
4. living in rural and remote areas
5. aboriginals and torres strait islanders
6. socioeconomically disadvantaged

Question 33

The years an indigenous individual expected to live less compared to the non indigenous

Answer 33

17-20 years less

Question 34

Protective behaviours

Answer 34

Behaviours that enhance your level of health e.g. immunisations, check ups etc.

Question 35

Risky behaviours

Answer 35

behaviours that are likely to contribute to the development of health problems or poorer levels of health e.g. smoking, binge drinking

Question 36

Individual factors

Answer 36

knowledge, skills and genetics

Question 37

Sociocultural factors

Answer 37

peers, family, media, religion and culture

Question 38

Environmental factors

Answer 38

location, access to health services and technology available

Question 39

Non-modifiable health determinants

Answer 39

those determinants that can not be changed or altered for example, genetics

Question 40

Things most commonly found in the indigenous

Answer 40

• less secure employment
• poorer levels of education
• lower rates of home ownership
• higher rates of unemployment
• labour intensive work (blue collar)
• more risk factors to ill health

Question 41

what health promotion does

Answer 41

educates and creates awareness making it easier for individual to take control over their own health

Question 42

Equity

Answer 42

the fairness of allocating health resources to a diverse range of groups to improve their health, not every individual will needed the same resources to improve their health

Question 43

Health status

Answer 43

can be measured using positive aspects of health such as wellbeing and health determinants, as well as negative aspects like illness and disease.

Question 44

Health indicators

Answer 44

including life expectancy, mortality, morbidity and infant mortality are used to measure health status.

Question 45

Self efficacy

Answer 45

Belief one can succeed