Introduction to Community Nutrition Flashcards
Health
The Absence of disease and pain
Health Continuum
The spectrum of health: diease, impariment, diasbility on now end and freedom from disease of injury on the other end
What are the levels of prevention for the health continuum?
1) Primary Prevention
2) Secondary Prevention/Early Detection
3) Established Disease
4) Controlled Chronic Disease
Primary Prevention
promote health behaviors
Secondary Prevention/ Early Detection
Screening, health examinations, early intervention
Established disease
Treatment and acute care, self-management
Controlled Chronic Disease
Continuing care and rehabilitation if needed
What is tertiary prevention and what levels does that include?
treat and rehab people w illness or injury
- established disease and controlled chronic disease
What level does USA focus on?
Secondary and Tertiary Prevention
What are the social ecological model parts?
1) Individual
2) interpersonal
3) institutions/organizations
4) community
5) Structures, policies, and systems
Individual ex.
beliefs/ attitudes
Interpersonal ex.
family, peers, social netwokrs
insitutions/organizations ex.
rules, regulations, and informal structures
Community ex.
social networks, norms, standards
structures, policies, and systems ex.
local, statle, federal policies/laws that regulate healthy actions
What is the purpose of the social ecological model?
focus on people’s physical and sociocultural environments
- show multiple levels of influence
Difference Between community and public health nutrition
Community: any nutrition program that funds a project in the community
Public health: Government funded, mandated
What are the social and economic trends in community nutrition?
- Obesity epidemic
- increasing awareness of environmental things like eating fresh and local
- loss of fresh water and sources of energy
- climate change
- increase of chemical pollutants–microplastics
