EPHE ch 1

Question 1

What is Health Promotion ?

Answer 1

Enabling people to increase contol and improve their health

Question 2

Identify 3 national health challenges

Answer 2

• Reducing enequalities
• Increasing prevention effort
• Enhancing people’s capacity to cope

Question 3

3 mechanisms to health promotion

Answer 3

-Self-care
- Mutual aid
- Healthy environments

Question 4

What are Predisposing factors?
Provide 3 examples

Answer 4

Encourage of inhibit change
- Beliefs
- Knowledge
- Attiudes

Question 5

What are Enabling factors?
Provide 3 positive examples and one negative

Answer 5

Makes it easier for people to make change
Positive: physical/mental capacities, living conditions, programs
Negative: People who encorage an unhealthy lifestyle

Question 6

3 Examples of reinforcing factors

Answer 6

Encouragement, Praise, Rewards

Question 7

What is Health?

Answer 7

Not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

Question 8

What is Wellness?

Answer 8

A purposeful and enjoyable living

Question 9

Name two social determinants and describe them

Answer 9

Education: is associated with life expectancy and also will likely affect one’s income/employment
Race: Racial inequalities exist in our healthcare system whuch affects one’s access to healthcare

Question 10

Halbert Dunn’s definition of 1. Health, 2. Wellness

Answer 10

Health: a passive state of balance
Wellness: a dynamic process of continually moving fwd to on’es potential for optimal functioning

Question 11

What is the quality of life model, and the three domains?

Answer 11

The degree to which a person enjoys the possibility of their life.
- Being
- Belonging
- Becoming

Question 12

What are Hettler’s 6 demensions of wellness

Answer 12

• Emotional
• Race
• Income
• Gender
• Disability
• Early life