Disease and health

Question 1

What are the social determinants of health

Answer 1

The conditions that we live, work and socialize in and how they influence our quality of life and our health risks

Question 2

What type of studies do HP mostly use

Answer 2

Quantitative

Question 3

What is epigenetics

Answer 3

What factors causes genes to turn on and off

Question 4

What type of prevention can completely prevent the illness

Answer 4

Primary prevention

Question 5

How can primary prevention help prevent the illness

Answer 5

Changing risky behvaiours

Question 6

What is tertiary prevention

Answer 6

You have the illness the goal is to either a) contain it or b) retard the damage

Question 7

What is so special about the leading cause of death today

Answer 7

Most are preventable by simply reducing your tobacco use, obesity and lack of PA

Question 8

What is illness behaviour

Answer 8

Seek remedy by going to see a doctor

Question 9

What is sick role behaviour

Answer 9

Seek to get well by taking medications

Question 10

What are health protective behaviour seen as

Answer 10

Immunogens

Question 11

What does the relapse prevention model of health state

Answer 11

1) Behaviour change is fairly hard but
2) maintaining that change is even harder

Question 12

Which system allows us to change our irrational thoughts by using rational thoughts as a replacement

Answer 12

ABCDE system

Question 13

What does the process of motivational interviewing consist of

Answer 13

1) Open-ended questions: for self-reflection
2) Affirmations: encourage/recognize progress
3) Listening: show understanding
4) Help client process information

Question 14

In the problem-behavior theory, how are risky behaviour seen.

Answer 14

Not as accidental but rather as goal-directed

Question 15

What is the triadic influence theory

Answer 15

Behaviours are shaped by
1) Biological factors
2) Social context
3) Environmental influences

Question 16

What system explains why teenagers are more likely to engage in risky behaviors and why

Answer 16

1) Dopaminergic system
2) Between childhood and adolescence the brain becomes reward-centric

Question 17

What is the most predictive level of causation

Answer 17

Individual-level

Question 18

What is psychedelic-assisted therapy

Answer 18

Ingest consciousness altering substances (ketamine and LSD) to bring awareness to past memories and trauma

Question 19

What is the best way to access illness cognitions

Answer 19

Interviews

Question 20

What do interviews avoid

Answer 20

Priming the subject

Question 21

What is the role of a HP in crisis of illness

Answer 21

Emphasize how people are motivated to return to a normal state

Question 22

What is the process behind help-seeking

Answer 22

Deciding to get professional help related to a health problem

Question 23

What are the two main things that help-seeking is based off of

Answer 23

1) Symptoms: indicates that something is wrong
2) Sign: unormality

Question 24

Is pain viewed as a sensation or a perception

Answer 24

Perception

Question 25

What is pain a combination off

Answer 25

Combination of a physical and a psychological state

Question 26

What is the gate-control theory

Answer 26

Pain is an active perception, it cannot be passive

Question 27

What is the role of mindfullness and pain

Answer 27

Give a purpose and meaning to pain

Question 28

When does medical hypnosis happen

Answer 28

Before trance state

Question 29

What is medical hypnosis

Answer 29

Used to treat pain
There is some information coming from the inside and some coming from the outside

Question 30

What is needed for a placebo to have an effect

Answer 30

1) Individual need to believe that the intervention will be effective
2) If illness is from a medical cause, it holds your belief and will work best
3) Health professional need to believe in the treatment if not you may communicate doubt to patient

Question 31

What is a nocebo effect

Answer 31

Opposite of placebo
The factors actually get worse

Question 32

When talking to a patient should you say they have a lack of
1) Awarness
2) Knowledge
3) Information

Answer 32

Lack of information

Question 33

Why is using lack of information, more beneficial

Answer 33

It puts the blame on someone else, they didn’t inform you, it is less personal.

Question 34

What is a shit job

Answer 34

a job that doesn’t pay well and doesn’t involve good working conditions

Question 35

What is a bullshit job

Answer 35

You pay the employee for a job that has absolutely no significance.

Question 36

What kind of jobs are: Flunky jobs, goons, duct tapers, box tickers and taskmaster a part of

Answer 36

Bullshit jobs

Question 37

What is a flunky job

Answer 37

Exist only to make someone else look good/feel important

Question 38

What are goons

Answer 38

Aggresive elements, only exist because someone else chose to

Question 39

What are duct tapers

Answer 39

Job only exists because of a glitch, sought to solve a problem that doesn’t exists

Question 40

What are box tickers

Answer 40

Exists only to pretend they are doing something specific but are really not doing much

Question 41

What are taskmasters

Answer 41

1) Give assignments to others
2) Create bullshit tasks for others to do

Question 42

What is the disability paradox theory

Answer 42

State that people with serious disabilities report having a higher quality of life than healthy people