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What is health promotion? - Answer Activities with the goal of developing human attitudes
and behaviors that maintain or enhance well-being which enable individuals, families,
communities and systems to increase their control over and improve their health.
What is the definition of health? - Answer the state of being free from illness or injury.
What is the definition of wellness? - Answer : the quality or state of being in good health
especially as an actively sought goal
-emotional, spiritual, mental, physical holistic health
What is the definition of illness? - Answer a disease or period of sickness affecting the body
or mind.
"he died after a long illness"
What is the definition of disease? - Answer a disorder of structure or function in a human,
animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a
specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
What are the 8 dimensions of wellness? - Answer environmental, emotional, financial, social,
spiritual, occupational, physical, intellectual
What are illness behaviors? - Answer Any actions or reactions of an individual who feels
unwell for the purpose of defining their state of health and obtaining physical or emotional
relief from perceived or actual illness
-Self-care behavior
-Healthcare utilization behavior
Travis' Illness/Wellness Continuum - Answer pre-mature death to disability to symptoms to
sings to neutral point to awareness toe ducation to growth to high level wellness
A community health nurse is educating a group of clients on the difference between illness and
disease. Which statements are appropriate for the nurse to include in the educational session?
a."An individual can have a disease and not feel ill."
b."Illness is synonymous with disease."
c."Illness is an alteration in body function, where disease is highly subjective."
,d."An individual can feel ill without disease."
e."Illness and disease are never related to one another." - Answer a,d
What are the 4 healthy people 2020 goals? - Answer -Attain high quality, longer lives free of
preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death.
-Achieve health equality, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
-Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
-Promote quality of life, healthy development, and health behaviors across all life stages.
What are the major public health concerns from Healthy People 2020? - Answer Access to
health services
Clinical preventive services
Environmental quality
Injury and violence
Maternal, infant, child health
Mental health
Nutrition, physical activity, obesity
Oral health
Reproductive and sexual health
Social determinants
Substance abuse
Tobacco use
What is the nurse's role in health promotion? - Answer -Reinforce client's personal and
family health promoting behaviors
-Teach clients self-care strategies and promote health-promoting options
-Educate clients to be effective healthcare consumers
-Model healthy lifestyle behaviors and attitudes
-Facilitate client involvement
-Advocate for changes that promote a healthy environment
-Use the NURSING PROCESS to assess wellness
What things are interrelated with health promotion? - Answer culture
development
adherence
self management
,patient educatoin
health polciy
health disparities
evidence
health care economics
nutriton
mobility
Which nursing intervention exemplifies the nurse working in a health promotion role?
a.Administering an ordered antibiotic
b.Reinforcing desirable changes to the client's lifestyle
c.Administering vaccines to a well child
d.Administering an inhaler to an asthmatic client
e. Obtaining a blood glucose sample on a hypoglycemic client - Answer b,c
How can you build healthy public policy? - Answer -strengthen community action
-develop personal skills
-create supportive environments
-reorient health services
-enable, mediate, advocate
Ottawa charter - Answer declaration that identifies the prerequisites for health as well as
three basic strategies for health promotion: advocacy, enabling and mediation
-5 action areas: building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening
community action, developing personal skills, reorienting health skills
What are the 10 most costly health expenses in 2013? - Answer -diabetes
-schemic heart disease
-low back and neck pain
-hypertension
-injuries from falls
-depressive disorders
-oral-related problems
-vision and hearing problems
-skin related problmes, such as cellulitis or acne
, -pregnancy and postpartum care
Wht is personal health care spending in the US the most at? - Answer ambulatory, inpatient
then pharmaceuticals with the mot in communicable diseases, neoplamss, cardiovascualr
disease
as of 2014, how many adults had at least one chronic condition? - Answer 60%
Ms. Liana Smith, a 70 year old woman, reports that she is having difficulty falling asleep at night.
She enjoys a generous glass of red wine before bed. Her grandson recently gave her a large
screen TV. Sometimes she falls asleep in her recliner missing the end of the TV show or movie.
She says, "I am so tired in the mornings, I can hardly get out of bed."
What Healthy People 2020 Objectives relate to promoting healthy sleep patterns? - Answer
Increase the proportion of persons with symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea who seek medical
evaluation
Reduce the rate of vehicular crashes per 100 million miles traveled that are due to drowsy
driving
Increase the proportion of students in grades 9 through 12 who get sufficient sleep
Increase the proportion of adults who get sufficient sleep**
Which objective best relates to Ms. Smith, and what is the target for that objective? - Answer
Increase the proportion of adults who get sufficient sleep. Increase from 69.6% to 70.8% of
adults getting sufficient sleep (defined as 8 or more hours for those aged 18 to 21 years and 7 or
more hours for those aged 22 years and over, on average, during a 24-hour period).
Considering Ms. Smith's age, how well is her age group doing with healthy amounts of sleep
compared to the target? - Answer 65 and older. Above target at 75.2%
Using your knowledge of health promotion and sleep-rest patterns outline strategies you would
use to promote healthy sleep with Ms. Smith? - Answer Avoid large meals and alcohol 2
hours before bedtime
Shut off TVs and electronics an hour before bedtime
Create an environment for sleep-cool, quiet, bedroom
what is morbidity? - Answer proportion of disease in a population
what is mortality? - Answer incidence of deaths in a population