Week 2 - Important concepts

Question 1

Classification of individuals that is based on certain characteristics which they have in common. Can also be seen as a community.

Answer 1

Aggregate

Question 2

What is the first standard of the CCHNSOP?

Answer 2

Health promotion

Question 3

Organized effort of society to keep individuals healthy and prevent premature death, illness and injury through the use of a combination of services, programs and policies.

Answer 3

public health

Question 4

When was the public health agency of canada formed?

Answer 4

2004

Question 5

Promote and protect the health of Canadians through leadership, partnership, innovation and action in publci health.

Answer 5

Goal of the PHA of Canada

Question 6

Who was Tommy Douglas?

Answer 6

Premier of Saskatchewan who first introduce universal public health care (Medicare) in 1962

Question 7

Which SDoH has the greatest impact on health?

Answer 7

Income and SES

Question 8

Not enough money to maintain the average luxuries of the neighbourhood.

Answer 8

Relative poverty

Question 9

Using LIM after income taxes, what percentage of londoners were below the average income household?

Answer 9

16%

Question 10

A social action process in which individuals and groups act to gain mastery over their lives in the context of changing their social and political environemnt

Answer 10

Empowerment

Question 11

What are the different models of health promotion?

Answer 11

Biomedical
Lifestyles/behaviour
Socioenvironmental
Population

Question 12

When was the Lalonde report published?
Why was it important?
What did it emphasize?

Answer 12

1974
First document suggesting that healthcare services were NOT the most important determinant of health
Indicated too much emphasis on lifestyle, and too little on environment

Question 13

Directed at improving the health of groups that have behaviours placing them at risk, tries to hit on social marketing, behaviour education and regulatory measures

Answer 13

Lifestyles approach to HP

Question 14

What are the two theories that fit into the socioenvironmental model of HP?

Answer 14

Critical social theory

Intersectionality theory

Question 15

Challenges social inequalities, considers forces that may contribute to power differentials in society.

Answer 15

Critical social theory

Question 16

Provides a way of understanding that many social identities interstect at the level of the individual.

Answer 16

Intersectionality theory

Question 17

What is the single best strategy to affect the SDoH? What health promotion model encompasses this mantra?

Answer 17

Advocating for healthy public policy

Population model of HP

Question 18

What are the three levels of prevention. What is the focus of each?

Answer 18

Primary - eliminate risk
- total population and selected groups

Secondary - suspend the disease prior to symptoms
- single patients and groups

Tertiary - reduce the impact of disease; treatment and rehab
- patient only

Question 19

Describe the Health Promotion model (Population)

Answer 19

Base - evidenced-based decision making - research, experiential learning, evaluation
Sides - SDoH, levels of action, strategies

Question 20

Who, what and why of intervention and action to create healthy changes.

Answer 20

Health promotion model

Question 21

Approach that identifies root causes; macroscopic; includes health promotion and prevention.

Answer 21

upstream approach

Question 22

Helping sick patients - microscopic approach.

Answer 22

downstream approach

Question 23

When were reproductive rights established?

When were the rights clarified?

Answer 23

1968 at the UN’s international conference on human rights.

Clarified in 1994

Question 24

What percentage of Canadian women with babies 0-11 months have prenatal care?

Answer 24

97%

Question 25

What is the time frame for exclusive breast feeding?

Answer 25

6 months

Question 26

What percentage of mothers who breastfeed according to guidelines are post-secondarily educated?
What does breastfeeding protect the mother from?

Answer 26

76%

ovarian and breast cancer

Question 27

In what year was policy introduced banning smoking in vehicles?

Answer 27

2009 - 125$ fine

Question 28

What are things that can be done to reduce SIDS risk?

Answer 28

Room sharing for first 6 months
no smoking before and after birth
back to sleep
firm surface, no pillows, comforters, quilts or bumper pads
breastfeeding