Health Teaching & Health Promotion (Wk. 9)

Question 1

What is a state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing, not just the absence of disease or infirmity?

Answer 1

health

Question 2

What is a lifestyle that enhances our level of health?

Answer 2

wellness

Question 3

What refers to pathologic changes in the structure or function of the body or mind?

Answer 3

disease

Question 4

What is the response of the person to a disease?

Answer 4

illness

Question 5

What are the four stages to illness behaviors?

Answer 5

1. experiencing symptoms
2. assuming the sick role
3. assuming a dependent role
4. achieving recovery and rehabilitation

Question 6

According to the illness-wellness continuum, illness vs wellness ranges from 0-10. What does it mean to be at a 0, 5, and 10?

Answer 6

0 - disease (pre-mature death)
5 - neutral, health is not a priority (comfort zone, false wellness)
10 - optimal health, continuous development (high-level wellness)

Question 7

What is the recognition of a danger to health that could be reduced or alleviated through specific actions or changes in lifestyle behaviors?

Answer 7

disease prevention

Question 8

What are examples of a communicable disease?

disease you can transfer to somebody else

Answer 8

• HIV
• STI
• TB
• Covid
• Hep B

Question 9

What are examples of a noncommunicable disease?

disease that you don’t transfer to somebody else

Answer 9

• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Diabetes

Chronic disease

Question 10

What makes up health care screenings, check-ups, immunizations, counseling, and preventative medications?

Answer 10

preventative care

Question 11

Preventative care can be split up into three classes. What are those three classes?

Answer 11

1. primary
2. secondary
3. tertiary

Question 12

Preventative care can be split up into three classes.

What preventative class is described as an intervention implemented before there is evidence of a disease or injury?

Answer 12

primary prevention

risk reduction

Question 13

Preventative care can be split up into three classes.

What preventative class is described as an intervention implemented after a disease has begun, but before it is symptomatic?

Answer 13

secondary prevention

early detection

Question 14

Preventative care can be split up into three classes.

What preventative class is described as an intervention implemented after a disease or injury is established?

Answer 14

tertiary prevention

preventing things from getting worse

Question 15

Preventative care can be split up into three classes.

A high fiber diet to prevent colon cancer would be an example of what preventative class?

Answer 15

primary prevention

Question 16

Preventative care can be split up into three classes.

Mammograms to detect breast cancer would be an example of what preventative class?

Answer 16

secondary prevention

Question 17

Preventative care can be split up into three classes.

Low cholesterol diet after an MI would be an example of what preventative class?

Answer 17

tertiary prevention

Question 18

What is the process of empowering people to increase control over, and to improve health?

Answer 18

health promotion

Question 19

What organization sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade?

Answer 19

Healthy People 2030

Question 20

What is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others?

Answer 20

personal health literacy

Question 21

What are the different types of education for health literacy?

Answer 21

• formal education (nutrition class)
• nonformal education (hospital class)
• informal education (Google)

Question 22

What consists of activities a person performs to maintain or promote one’s life, health, well-being, and also to prevent and cure one’s disease?

Answer 22

self-care

Question 23

What nursing theory focuses on the importance of increasing the patient’s independence through fulfilling the patient’s basic needs?

Answer 23

Virginia Henderson’s Nursing Need Theory

Question 24

What are the stages in the Change Model?

Answer 24

• precontemplation
• contemplation
• determination: commitment
• action
• maintence/relapse/recycling

Question 25

What model focuses on helping people achieve higher levels of well-being and encourages health professionals to provide positive resources ot help patients achieve behavior specific changes through four assumptions?

Answer 25

nola pender’s health promotion model

Question 26

What are the four assumptions in Nola Pender’s Health Promotion Model?

Answer 26

• individuals strive to control their own behavior
• individuals work to improve themselves & their environment
• environment created by health professionals influences individual’s behaviors
• self-initiated change of individual & environmental characteristics is essential to changing behavior