WK 4 (CH.9): Environmental Justice

Question 1

Tertiary prevention

Answer 1

Focuses on managing complicated, long-term disease, injuries or illness

-Goal prevent further deterioration because disease is now established

EX: CPS

Question 2

Secondary prevention

Answer 2

Occurs after disease, injury, or illness has occurred

• Focus on prevention reinjury
• Problem may have started

EX: Head start program

Question 3

Primary prevention

Answer 3

Protect people from developing a disease, experience an injury or engage in behavior in the first place

• For EVERYONE!
• EX: Public education

Question 4

Steps of Policy Analysis

Answer 4

1. Identify the problem
2. Develop alternatives
3. Assessing impacts of alternatives
4. Selecting option
5. Designing & implementing policy
6. Evaluation outcomes

Question 5

Advocacy

Answer 5

Attempting to influence public policy through education, lobbying, or political pressure

Question 6

Social interactions in society

Answer 6

Family 
Religion 
Government 
Education 
Economics

Question 7

Community based decision making stages

Answer 7

1. Orientation stage- community members meet, get to know each other
2. Conflict stage- Disputes may occur, eventually work out
3. Emergence stage- begin to see & agree on a course of action
4. Reinforcement stage- make decisions & justify why it was correct

Question 8

Social planning

Answer 8

Process by which a group or community decides its goals & strategies relating to social issues

-SW engage w/ community members

Question 9

Community organization

Answer 9

Focused on harnessing the collective power of communities to take issues of shared concerns

-Working w/ local citizens