Test 2 Flashcards
What is the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health?
Health Community
What are the stages in health communication?
Developing and pretesting concepts
Implementing the program
Assessing effectiveness: refining
What is the key concept of health communication?
There is an expanding body of research addressing the challenges of disseminating health messages to the population
What involves creating, communicating and delivering health information and interventions using customer centered and science based strategies to protect and promote the health of diverse populations?
Health marketing
How to improve health messages?
Framing health messages
Tailoring health messages
What does framing health messages involve?
Using cues to signal how you want people to think about an issue
Attempts to connect people’s values, beliefs, knowlege levels and emotions
Sounds, symbols, words or pictures
What does tailoring health messages include?
Using strategies to personalize the message to make it more meaningful to specific individuals
What are the basic elements of the communication process?
Sender constructs message to inititate interpersonal communication
Message contains information te sender wishes to convey
Receiver accepts the message
What factors affect interpersonal communication?
Environmental Factors
Internal and Relationship Factors
Sociocultural Background Differences
What are environmental factors in interpersonal communication?
Lighting and acoustics
What are internal and relationship factors in interpersonal communication?
Perceptions
Values
Knowledge
Emotions
Level of need fulfillment
What are the forms of communication?
Verbal
Nonverbal
What is verbal communication?
Spoken words to convey a message
What is nonverbal communication?
Uses body language instead of words
What does CARE stand for?
Comfort
Acceptance
Responsiveness
Empathy
What type of communication occurs between a client and a healthcare provider?
Therapeutic Communication
What are the common therapeutic communication techniques?
Silence
Attentive Listening
Humor
Conveying Acceptance
Related Questions
Paraphrasing
Clarifying
Focusing
Stating Observations
Offering Information
Summarizing
Should nontherapeutic communication should be avoided by the dental hygienist?
Yes
What are factors that can inhibit communication?
Giving an opinion
Offering a false reassuracnce
Being defensive
Showing approval or disapproval
Asking why
Changing the subject inappropriately
How does life span affect communication for the dental hygienist with clients?
The communication and learning processes need to be tailored to each client’s age level
How to determine a communication format?
Include a needs assessment of the population
What does a needs assessment do?
Identifies important cultural beliefs, health practices and knowledge levels that result in barriers to care or that block behaviour change
What must communication content include?
Cultural sensitivity and linguistic competency
What is the ability to access, comprehend, evaluate and communicate information as a way to promote, maintain and improve health in a variety of settings across the life course?
Health literacy
What are the four domains of health literacy?
Access (can get the info)
Comprehend (can understand the info)
Communicate (can make decisions)
Evaluate
People usually remember ___% of what they read.
10%
People usually remember __% of what they hear.
20%
People usually remember __% of what they see.
30%
People usually remember __% of what they see and hear.
70%
People usually remember __% of what they see, hear and do.
90%
What is evaluating health messages?
Gaining baseline information about knowledge, attitudes or behaviours before the intervention
A fundamental error in many oral health education efforts is?
Incorrect assumption that increased knowledge will result in changes in behaviour
What equals behavioural change?
Attitude + knowledge
__% of children 5-17 are caries free in their permanent dentition.
55%
Other than family, what institution can do the most for child and adolescent health?
The school system
What is a comination of planned learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary actions conducive to health?
Health education
Can health education alone function as a preventative measure?
No
Has an relationship between health education and improved outcomes in health been proven?
No
What are the outcomes of oral health education?
To assist people in making decisions about their oral health and to choose behaviours conducive to maintaining health.
What is a planned, systematic and ongoing learning opportunity that enables all students (K - 12) to be productive learners and to make well-considered health decisions throughout their lives.
Comprehensive School Health Education
True or False: healthy children are better learners.
True
What is part of the Durham Public Health mandate in regards to dental health?
The dental department of Durham Public Health is to mandate the advocacy for oral health.
What are the goals of the dental disease prevention programs?
Instill self-awareness and responsiblities in dental health
Encourage decision making about dental health
Encourage students to develop appropriate skills to prevent oral disease
Instill positive values and attitudes about dental health to ensure lifelong learning
What are aspects of preventive education?
Flourides
Plaque control
Tooth-brushing
FLossing
Nutrition
Dental safety
Risks of tobacco
Dental office visits
What needs to be included in a dental health lesson?
Goals
Objectives
Anticipatory Planning
Instruction
Guided Practice
Closure
What is a goal in a lesson plan?
A general statement that describes the major purpose of a program or course
What are objectives in a lesson plan?
Instructional objectives that are specific, precise and immediate while also being measurable.
What needs to be included in an objective for a lesson plan?
Audience - who
Behaviour - what
Condition - when
Degree - how well
What needs to be included in anticipatory planning?
Focus the students’ attention using a question, problem, interesting fact, or visual
Establish a purpose for the lesson
What is included in instruction for a lesson plan?
The information needed to meet the objectives
What are the two main ways to build measures associated with indicators?
Survey questions
Clinical measures
What is the study of the distribution of health-related quality of states or events in specific populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems?
Epidemiology
What are the two types of epidemiology?
Classical epidemiology
Clinical epidemiology
What are the aims of epidemiology?
- Describe the distribution and size of diseases in human population
- Identify etiological factors in the pathgenesis of disease
- Provide data essentil to the planning, implrementation, and evaluation of services for the prevention, control and treatment of disease
What are the uses of epidemiologic research?
Understanding the natural history of disease
Describe trends
Trusting hypotheses for prevention and control of disease
Measures distribution of health status, diseases, injuries, disabilties, births, and deaths in a population
Planing and evaluating health care services
Studying non disease entities
Evaluating appropriateness of health care services
Identifying risk factors and determinants of disease
What are the health trends of the 21st century?
Changes in social conditions
Shifts in views of cival and human rights
Shofts in government involvements
Population growth, migration and demographic changes
TEchnological changes influencing work, home communities
Advancements in medicine
Impact of flobalization and urbanization
What are the major variables that describe the distribution of disease?
Person
Place
Time
What are the principal factors analyzed in epidemiology?
Distribution
Population dynamics
Occurances
Affected population
Place characteristics
Time
Determinants
What is an attribute or exposure that increases the probability of disease occurance?
Risk factor
What is a factor that results in a certain outcome and is determined by experimental factors?
Causative factor
What are the three factors in the multi-causal theory of disease?
Environment
Agent
Host
What are some host risk factors?
Genetics
Age
Race
Ethnicity
Culture
Gender
SES
PErsonal behaviours or habits
What are some agent risk factors?
Chemical
Microbial
Physical or mechanical irriatants
What are some environmental risk factors?
Climate
Food
Socio-economic conditions
Sanitation
Media
Beliefs
Housing
Technology
What are the aims of public health?
Describe the health status of the population
Explain the etiology of disease
Predict the occurance of disease
Control the distribution of disease
What is concerned with describing the general characteristics of the distribution of a disease in relation to person, place, and time?
Descriptive studies
What determines the cause of disease or determines if a relationship exists between a factor and disease?
Analytical studies
What is used to test new disease interventions?
Experimental studies
What is the frequency of a development of a new illness in a population ina certain period of time?
Incidence
What is the current number of people suffering from a specific illness in a given year
Prevalence
What are the types of measurements in oral health?
Counts
Proportions
Rate
Index
What is a count in health research?
Simple counts of cases
What is a proportion in health research?
A count divided by the population of the groups (prevalence)