Exam 2.1

Question 1

Social ecological approach to behavior change

Answer 1

has multiple levels of influence, change more likely when a combination of individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy-level interventions in place

Question 2

Health education

Answer 2

any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide individuals, groups, and communities the opportunity to acquire information and the skills to make quality health decisions, one part focused on voluntary behavior change

Question 3

Health promotion

Answer 3

any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, regulatory, or organizational mechanisms that support actions and conditions of living conducive to health of individuals, groups and communities

Question 4

Generalized model for program planning

Answer 4

assessing needs-setting goals and objectives-developing an intervention-implementing the intervention-evaluating the results

Question 5

Intervention

Answer 5

activities that will help the target population meet the objectives and achieve the program goals, an activity or activities designed to create change in people

Question 6

Pilot test

Answer 6

trial run-implementation to a small group, determine problems and fix before full implementation

Question 7

Phasing in

Answer 7

step by step implementation, implementation with small groups, implementation of an intervention with a series of small groups instead of the entire population

Question 8

Community capacity

Answer 8

community characteristics affecting its ability to identify, mobilize, and address problems

Question 9

Empowered community

Answer 9

one in which individuals and organizations apply their skills and resources in collective efforts to meet their respective needs

Question 10

Participation and relevance

Answer 10

community organizing that starts where the people are and engages community members as equals

Question 11

Social capital

Answer 11

relationships and structures within a community that promote cooperation for mutual benefit

Question 12

Initial organizer

Answer 12

recognizes that a problem exists and decides to do something about it

Question 13

Essential public health services

Answer 13

assessment, policy development, assurance, linked to the core functions, cyclical and continuous, managed at systems level, enhanced through active research

Question 14

PH assessment

Answer 14

monitor health, diagnose and investigate

Question 15

PH policy development

Answer 15

inform, educate, empower, mobilize community partnerships, develop policies

Question 16

PH assurance

Answer 16

enforce laws, link to/provide care, assure competent workforce

Question 17

Bear River Board of Health

Answer 17

Box Elder, Cache, Rich counties

Question 18

Public health mission

Answer 18

assuring conditions in which people can be healthy

Question 19

BRHD health promotion mission

Answer 19

protect human health, prevent disease and disability, promote a safe and healthy community through assessment, policy development, and assurance

Question 20

What is health promotion?

Answer 20

the aggregate of all purposeful activities designed to improve personal and public health through a combination of strategies, including the competent implementation of behavioral change strategies, health ed., health protection measures, risk factor detection, health enhancement and health maintenance

Question 21

7 responsibilities for health educators

Answer 21

assess needs, assets, and capacity; plan health education; implement health education; conduct evaluation and research; administer and manage health ed, serve as health ed and resource person; advocate for health ed

Question 22

Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP)

Answer 22

health education, physical education, health services, nutrition services, counseling, psychological and social services, healthy school environment, health promotion for staff, family/community involvement

Question 23

School Health Advisory Council

Answer 23

primary role: provide coordination of the CSHP components, individuals from a school or school district and community who work together to provide advice and aspects of school health program

Question 24

Key personnel for CSHP

Answer 24

school nurse, teachers

Question 25

School Health Policies

Answer 25

steps: identify the policy development team, assess the district’s needs, prioritize needs and develop an action plan, draft a policy, build awareness and support, adopt and implement the policy, maintain, measure, and evaluate

Question 26

School Health Coordinator

Answer 26

should administer CSHP, usually a nurse or health teacher, multiple responsibilities, position often not required by states

Question 27

School Health Education

Answer 27

development, delivery, and evaluation of a planned curriculum primarily by a school health teacher, includes all health education in the school

Question 28

Health ed curriculum outlines

Answer 28

scope-content that will be taught, sequence-order content will be covered, learning objectives, learning activities, possible instructional resources, methods for asssesement

Question 29

Issues and concerns of CSHP

Answer 29

lack of support, limited resources, curriculum challenges, controversy, violence in schools, bullying

Question 30

Infant

Answer 30

<1year

Question 31

Child

Answer 31

1-14 years

Question 32

Women of childbearing age

Answer 32

18-45 years

Question 33

Increased health risks for infants and children raised in single parent families

Answer 33

adverse birth outcomes, low birth weight, higher infant mortality, more likely to live in poverty

Question 34

Unmarried mothers

Answer 34

compared to married generally have lower education, lower incomes, greater dependence on welfare

Question 35

Teenage pregnancy

Answer 35

more likely to drop out of school, not get married or have marriage end in divorce, rely on public assistance, live in poverty, substantial health and economic consequences