PN 1004 REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
What does advocating healthy public policy mean?
advocating healthy public policy means focusing on policies that create healthy living
conditions.
What does creating supporting environments help with?
this strategy helps ensure that physical environments are healthy and safe and that living and
working conditions are stimulating and satisfying.
what entails in developing personal skills for clients?
Helps clients develop personal skills enhance coping strategies and gain control over their health
and environment.
Reorient health services what are their two objectives. Also what does it entail?
1. To shift emphasis from treating disease to improving health
2. To make the healthcare system more efficient and effective.
This entails improving access to primary health care services, Increasing community
development, improved community based care services, increased family based care and public
participation.
Healthy People 2020 have four goals what are they?
1.Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature
death
2.Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviours across all life stages
Health
state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
and infirmity
WESTERN MEDICINE/ /allopathic medicine
a system in which physicians and other healthcare professionals, such as nurses, pharmacists, and
therapists, treat symptoms and diseases using medications, radiation, lasers, or surgical
interventions. It is also called biomedicine, conventional medicine, mainstream medicine,
orthodox medicine and western medicine
Primary prevention strategies
, health promotion and specific protection
Examples of prevention strategies
Health education
Good standard of nutrition
Attention to personality development
Adequate housing, recreation and agreeable working conditions
Selective examinations
Vaccinations
Personal hygiene
Environmental sanitation
Secondary level of prevention
early diagnosis, prompt treatment, disability limitation
Examples of secondary prevention
Individual and mass screenings
Examinations to cure and prevent disease
Examinations to prevent communicable diseases
Examinations to prevent complications of disease
Examinations to shorten period of disability
Adequate treatment to arrest disease process and prevent further complications and sequelae
Provision of facilities to limit disability and prevent death
Tertiary level of prevention
rehabilitation and restoration
examples of tertiary prevention
Provision of hospital and community facilities for retraining and education to maximize use of
remaining capacities
Education of public and industry to use rehabilitated persons to the fullest possible extent
Selective work placement
Work therapy in hospitals
Use of sheltered colony
Morbidty
diseased state or disability from any cause, illness that effects the person
mortaility
death
disability
VERIFIED ANSWERS
What does advocating healthy public policy mean?
advocating healthy public policy means focusing on policies that create healthy living
conditions.
What does creating supporting environments help with?
this strategy helps ensure that physical environments are healthy and safe and that living and
working conditions are stimulating and satisfying.
what entails in developing personal skills for clients?
Helps clients develop personal skills enhance coping strategies and gain control over their health
and environment.
Reorient health services what are their two objectives. Also what does it entail?
1. To shift emphasis from treating disease to improving health
2. To make the healthcare system more efficient and effective.
This entails improving access to primary health care services, Increasing community
development, improved community based care services, increased family based care and public
participation.
Healthy People 2020 have four goals what are they?
1.Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature
death
2.Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviours across all life stages
Health
state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
and infirmity
WESTERN MEDICINE/ /allopathic medicine
a system in which physicians and other healthcare professionals, such as nurses, pharmacists, and
therapists, treat symptoms and diseases using medications, radiation, lasers, or surgical
interventions. It is also called biomedicine, conventional medicine, mainstream medicine,
orthodox medicine and western medicine
Primary prevention strategies
, health promotion and specific protection
Examples of prevention strategies
Health education
Good standard of nutrition
Attention to personality development
Adequate housing, recreation and agreeable working conditions
Selective examinations
Vaccinations
Personal hygiene
Environmental sanitation
Secondary level of prevention
early diagnosis, prompt treatment, disability limitation
Examples of secondary prevention
Individual and mass screenings
Examinations to cure and prevent disease
Examinations to prevent communicable diseases
Examinations to prevent complications of disease
Examinations to shorten period of disability
Adequate treatment to arrest disease process and prevent further complications and sequelae
Provision of facilities to limit disability and prevent death
Tertiary level of prevention
rehabilitation and restoration
examples of tertiary prevention
Provision of hospital and community facilities for retraining and education to maximize use of
remaining capacities
Education of public and industry to use rehabilitated persons to the fullest possible extent
Selective work placement
Work therapy in hospitals
Use of sheltered colony
Morbidty
diseased state or disability from any cause, illness that effects the person
mortaility
death
disability
