Midterm Flashcards
What is Health?
State of complete emotional, mental, and physical well-being, not just the absence of disease
What is Health Promotion?
The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health
What are the leading causes of death in the U.S
Chronic (lifestyles) diseases, and new infectious diseases (HIV, STIs)
What is Health Status?
Measure of how people perceive their health
What are determinants?
Factor that is assumed to influence,
cause, or contribute to some outcome
What are health behaviors?
A modifiable factor that relates to health
What is a simple causal change
Distal Determinants -> Proximal Determinants -> Behavior -> Health Status
What are some assumptions of health promotion?
1)Individuals can assume responsibility for their own
health.
2.) Individual responsibility should not be viewed as
victim blaming.
3.) Changes in individual and societal health will impact
each other positively.
Assumptions of Health Promotion
4.) For behavior change to be permanent, individuals
must be motivated and ready to change.
5.) An individual’s health is affected by a variety of
factors, not just lifestyle.
6.) Health status can be changed
Which stage of TTM is this?
I will quit smoking in two weeks
Preparation
Which stage of TTM is this?
I am doing it. I wish I was more
consistent.
Action
This construct of TTM is more
important in earlier stages of
change, helping individuals
move from pre-contemplation
to comteplation
What is balance of pros and cons?
What is the following process of
change in TTM?
Remove or avoid cues to do
unwanted behavior and adding
cues to do wanted behavior
Stimulus Control
What is the following process of
change?
Help person experience negative
emotions that go along with
unhealthy behavior, take
advantage of an emotional
teachable moment (death of
someone close) or role play
Dramtic relief or emotional arousal
This construct of TTM is more
important in moving
individuals from preparation
to action to maintanance.
Self efficacy
This is the most immediate factor
that influences the health behavior
Proximal Determinant
Lack of mammogram facilities to
get a mammogram in Jay is an
example what kind of determinant?
Distal Determinant
Which of the following is
different from the rest?
Eating fruits and vegetables
Getting a flu shot
Getting a colonoscopy
Walking 30 minutes a day
Getting a colonoscopy, not preventative
How can we design appropriate
interventions
identifying
determinants and using
models and theories?
What are basic change strategies
in health promotion?
Health education and
communication
Policy
Community mobilizing
Health services
Engineering environments
and products
What are the two broad goals
of healthy ppl 2010?
Increase quality of and years of healthy life
Eliminate health disparities
The following statement is an
example of what kind of
prevention?
Walking for 30 minutes a day to
prevent heart diseases.
Primary
The following statement is an
example of what kind of
prevention?
Going to a physical therapist to
regain movement after a heart
attack
Tertiary
The following statement is an example of what
kind of prevention?
Getting tested for HIV after
having an unprotected one-night-
stand!
Secondary
Briefly describe social ecological
model and provide an example
Intrapersonal,
interpersonal,
organization, community,
policy
