Health Promotion Srtategies

Question 1

Health promotion strategies are limited to a specific health problem and to a specific set of behaviours.

Answer 1

False

Health promotion strategies are not limited to a specific health problem, nor to a specific set of behaviours.

Question 2

WHO as a whole applies the principles of, and strategies for, health promotion to a variety of
منظمة الصحة العالمية ككل تطبق مبادئ واستراتيجيات لتعزيز الصحة لمجموعة متنوعة من

Answer 2

population groups, risk factors, diseases, and in
various settings.

Question 3

Health promotion, and the associated efforts put
into

Answer 3

education, community development, policy, legislation and regulation, are equally valid for prevention of communicable diseases, injury and
violence, and mental problems, as they are for prevention of non communicable diseases.

Question 4

Health promotion is process of

Answer 4

making it possible or people to take control over and improve their health

Question 5

We can improve health when we use a combination of health promotion strategies.
true or false

Answer 5

true

Question 6

health promotion strategies:

Answer 6

1-Build healthy public policy
2-Create supportive environments
3-Strengthening community action
4-Develop personal skills
5-Re-orient health services

Question 7

Make public laws and rules that keep health in mind

Answer 7

Build healthy pulbic policy

Question 8

Reviews of health promotion interventions addressing several issues and determinants identified the creation of healthy public policy as a key strategy.

Answer 8

Build healthy pubic policy:

Question 9

-investment in government and social policy,

-The creation of legislation and regulations and Intersectoral and inter organizational partnerships and collaboration. In some cases,

-Reviews suggested that the creation of healthy public

-policy was the strategy for which the most evidence of effectiveness exists (e.g. legislation for road safety and social policy for income security and poverty reduction).

action relevant to what ?

Answer 9

action relevant to Build healthy pubic policy

Question 10

Create safe and satisfying environments in which to live,
work and play.

Answer 10

Create supportive environments

Question 11

Several reviews point to creating supportive conditions and environments as a strategy that is essential in order to ensure that other strategies are effective

Answer 11

Create supportive environments

Question 12

implementing a variety of actions that represent supportive conditions at the structural ( policy), social (including community) and individual levels

Answer 12

Create supportive environments

Question 13

found that successful youth health promotion strategies addressing high-risk behaviours must address the social and economic conditions that lead youth to be at high risk.

Answer 13

Create supportive environments

(Warren’s review)

Question 14

Key to the success of interventions was making behavior change accessible, including the availability of instrumental supports such as condoms and psychosocial and emotional supports such as counseling, peer counseling, outreach, and life skills training.

Answer 14

Create supportive environments

(Warren, 1999)

Question 15

Effective interventions not only aimed to change behavior among at-risk youth but also addressed societal perceptions of youth by targeting a variety of stakeholders, including parents, professionals, and community leaders

Answer 15

Create supportive environments

(Warren, 1999)

Question 16

Encourage people to get involved and take action in decisions that affect their community’s health.

Answer 16

Strengthening community action

(Hills et al., 2004)

Question 17

Effectiveness of Community Initiatives to Promote Health’ agreed that community intervention had had mixed results.

Answer 17

Strengthening community action

(Hills et al., 2004)

Question 18

Although their impact in terms of behavior change has ranged from modest to disappointing, they have achieved success in terms of community and systems change

Answer 18

Strengthening community action

(Hills et al., 2004)

Question 19

it was found that in preventing road injuries, educational activities alone were not very effective, but community programs that involved local participation and policy and legislative change actions have been very effective
(Svanstrom, 1999).

Answer 19

((Strengthening community action))

Svanstrom’s review of injury prevention and safety promotion interventions

Question 20

targeting cardiovascular disease and diabetes prevention identified that although specific large-scale programs using multifaceted community-based interventions were often effective, they generally failed to produce substantial change over improvements occurring in the general population.

Answer 20

Strengthening community action

Garrard et al.’s review of health promotion interventions

Question 21

Provide support, education and information to help people
build skills and make healthier choices.

Answer 21

Develop personal skills

Question 22

(including the actions of health education, health communications, and training and skills development)

Answer 22

Develop personal skills

Question 23

Central to the effectiveness of personal skills development is the need to also implement strategies that create structural- level conditions to support health and increase access to goods, products, and services.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Create services which change the focus from illness to
wellness.

Answer 24

Re-orient health services

Question 25

Interventions employing multiple strategies and actions
at multiple levels and sectors are:

Answer 25

the most effective

Question 26

Reviews of health promotion interventions working on a wide range of health issues and health determinants conclude that

the most effective interventions…?

Answer 26

the most effective interventions employ multiple health promotion strategies, operate at multiple levels
التدخلات الاكثر فعالية تستخدم استراتيجيات متعددة لتعزيز الصحة وتعمل على مستويات اكثر

Question 27

Reviews of health promotion interventions working on a
wide range of health issues and health determinants
conclude that the most effective interventions employ
multiple health promotion strategies, operate at “multiple levels”

ما المقصود ب multiple levels

Answer 27

often including all of the structural, social group and personal levels), work in partnership across sectors and include a combination of integrated actions to support
each strategy.

Question 28

effective and cost effective interventions for primary prevention of non- communicable disease used a combination of health promotion strategies at various levels in multiple settings

Answer 28

a key finding of Hoffman and Jackson’s review

اكتشاف رئيسي لمراجعة هوفمان وجاكسون

(Hoffman and Jackson, 2003).

Question 29

operate at all levels, involve the collaboration and partnership of organizations in multiple sectors and use multiple strategies

Answer 29

The most effective non communicable disease prevention and health promotion approaches

(Garrard et al., 2004).

Question 30

Key health promotion actions were identified in several reviews as: ?

تم تحديد الإجراءات الرئيسية لتعزيز الصحة في العديد من المراجعات على انها :؟

Answer 30

being central to the effectiveness of
interventions.
على انها اساس فعالية التدخلات

Question 31

-Intersectoral collaboration and inter organizational partnerships at all levels
-Community participation and engagement in planning and decision-making

Certain actions are required for what ?

Answer 31

Certain actions are required for effectiveness for all four Ottawa Charter strategies

Question 32

Creating healthy settings, particularly focusing on the settings of schools, workplaces and cities and communities /municipalities

Certain actions are required for what ?

Answer 32

Certain actions are required for effectiveness for all four Ottawa Charter strategies

Question 33

Political commitment, funding and infrastructure for social policies

Certain actions are required for what ?

Answer 33

Certain actions are required for effectiveness for all four Ottawa Charter strategies

Question 34

Awareness of the socio environmental context is essential

Certain actions are required for what ?

Answer 34

Certain actions are required for effectiveness for all four Ottawa Charter strategies

Question 35

Many reviews of health promotion effectiveness showed that developing personal skills was an ineffective strategy if implemented in isolation from other strategies, particularly with disadvantaged groups and communities of low socio-economic status.

Answer 35

true