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Unit 4: Consumer Health Flashcards

1
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What serious health and safety issues affect teens?

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Motor vehicle crashes
Violence
Substance abuse
Risky sexual behaviors

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What are some healthful behaviors that teens can struggle to adopt?

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Eating nutritiously
Engaging in physical activity
Choosing not to use tobacco or other drugs

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What are some environmental factors that affect teen health?

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Family
Peers
School
Community

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4
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How can schools positively affect students’ health?

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Fostering the delivery of quality sexual health ed
Increase youth access to sexual health services
Establish healthy, safe, and supportive school environments
Implement effective policies and programs to prevent HIV, STDs and pregnancy.

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5
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What does CDC stand for?

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Center for disease control and prevention

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What school health programs does the CDC promote?

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Health education
Physical education
Health services
Nutrition services
Health promotion for staff
Counseling and psych/social services
healthful school environment
Family/community involvement
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What does WHO stand for?

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World Health Organization

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What are WHO’s core functions within the UN?

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Ensure universal health coverage
Protect from health emergencies
Provide better health and well-being

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What are the six points of WHO’s current worldwide agenda?

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  1. Focus on primary health care to improve access to quality essential services
  2. Work towards sustainable financing and financial protection
  3. Improve access to essential medicines and health products
  4. Train the health workforce and advise on labor policies
  5. Support people’s participation in national health policies
  6. Improve Monitoring, data, and information.
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What is conservation?

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Protection and preservation of the environment

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What is recycling?

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treatment of waste so that it can be reused.

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What are health fraud scams?

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A scam to a recipient misinterpreting the truth with the aim of gaining an advantage in a fraudulent manner.

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What is the United Nations?

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An intergovernmental organization whose purpose is to maintain international peace and security.

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14
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What factors influence what we buy?

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Personal taste
Media messages
Tradition
Peers
Packaging and placement
Price
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What is a health consumer?

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SOmeone that purchases or uses health products or services

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What are the steps to deciding what to buy?

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  1. Read information and product labels
  2. Comparison shopping
  3. Evaluate services and information
17
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What is advertising?

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The act or practice of calling public attention to one’s product, service, need, et.c

18
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What is on a product label?

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The products name
The product's intended use
Directions
Warnings
Manufacturer's information
The amount of use
Active and inactive ingredients
19
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What common words are used on product labels? What do they mean?

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Healthy - low in fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, or 10% of vitamin DV
Light - Calories reduced by a third or fat and sodium by half
Less - 25% less than a comparable food
Free - no amount of a certain nutrient
Fresh - raw, unprocessed, no preservatives, never been frozen or heated
Natural - meat and poultry only , minimally processed
Expiration - last date you should use it
Freshness- Last date food is thought to be fresh
Pack - the date the product was packaged
Sell/pull - last date product should be sold

20
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What is health fraud?

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Deceptive promotion, advertising, distribution, or sale of a product represented as being effective to prevent diagnose, treat, cure, or lessen an illness but has not been proven as safe and effective.

21
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What to take into consideration when comparison shopping?

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Cost 
Quality
Features
Warranty
Safety
Others' opinions
22
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What are the steps to avoid health fraud?

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Ask the following questions:

  1. Does this info come from a valid source?
  2. Does the service come from a respected provider?
  3. If the source is a website: Who pays for it? Is it reputable? What’s the purpose?
23
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What is the consumer bill of rights?

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Right to safety
Right to be informed
Right to choose
Right to be heard
(From 1962)
Right to satisfaction of basic needs
Right to redress
Right to consumer education
Right to a safe environment
(added in 1985)
24
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What is mass media?

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Tools that deliver messages to many people (e.g. TV, radio, magazines, internet, newspapers, etc.)

25
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What is targeted media?

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Tools that reach specific groups (e.g. mailings, in-store announcements, billboards, buses.)

26
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What is product placement?

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Products themselves are the advertising (e.g. products in movies, t-shirt logos, vending machines, video games, etc.)

27
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What are the jobs of ads?

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  1. Grab attention
  2. Establish a unique image or personality
  3. Reassure customers who’ve already bought the product
  4. Persuade new customers to buy the product
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What are some approaches to advertising?

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Bandwagon - everyone’s doing it
Plain folks - speaking in simple terms
Testimonial - someone important or famous likes it
Science/Statistics - these numbers prove you need this
Transfer - associating products with something you like or value
Emotional appeal - hidden fears
Repetition - constant statement of an idea
Claims - vague terms (which can be misleading)
Excitement - often through music, jingles, sound effects, etc.

29
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What does the FDA stand for?

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Food and Drug Administration

30
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What does the FDA regulate?

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over the counter drugs
Prescription drugs
Cosmetics
health devices
bottled water
most foods (except for meat and poultry)
Veterinary medicines
31
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What types of inspections does it perform?

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Routine inspection - a regulated facility
Pre-approval inspection - after a company applies to market a product
For-cause inspection - a specific problem that might be there

32
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What are clinical trials?

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Testing a drug/product in a human data population.

33
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What does the FDA do?

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Protect public health by assuring foods are safe wholesome, sanitary, and properly labeled.
Ensuring that drugs and vaccines and medical devices intended for human use are safe and effective
Protecting the public from electronic product radiation
Assuring cosmetics and dietary supplements are safe and properly labels
Regulating tobacco products
Advancing public health by speeding product innovations

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What does the FDA inspect?

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Manufacturers, processors, farms, and facilities of FDA regulated products.

35
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When and why was the FDA formed?

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It was formed in 1906 when the Pure Foods and Drugs Act was created to reign in long-standing, serious abuses in the consumer product marketplace.

36
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What is pharmacokinetics?

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the study of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.

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