Health 3000 Exam 1 Modules 1-4
Questions And Answers
/.Behavior - Answer-✅Any overt action, conscious or unconscious, with measurable
frequency, intensity, and duration.
/.Behavior is affected by 5 levels of influence - Answer-✅1) Intrapersonal or individual
level factors (knowledge, beliefs, values, self-efficacy/confidence)
2) Interpersonal factors (friends, family, social networks)
3) Institutional or organizational factors (school, work)
4) Community factors (County health department, parks, greenway etc.)
5) Public policy factors (governmental rules, laws, policies, guidelines)
/.Health Behavior - Answer-✅Any activity undertaken by an individual regardless of
actual or perceived health status, for promoting, protecting, or maintaining health,
whether or not such behavior is objectively affective towards that end.
/.Health Behavior - Answer-✅All actions with a potentially measurable frequency,
intensity, and duration performed at the individual, interpersonal, organizational,
community, or public policy level for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
/.Health Risk Behavior - Answer-✅Specific forms of behavior proven to be associated
with increased susceptibility to a specific disease or illness. Includes those behaviors
associated with increased susceptibility to a specific disease or illness; i.e., smoking,
diet, physical inactivity, sexual behaviors.
/.Health Protective Behavior - Answer-✅Behaviors that protect people from disease or
illness
/.Health-Directed Behaviors - Answer-✅Behaviors that a person consciously pursues for
health improvement or health protection (vaccines, annual physicals, eating healthy
foods for weight management)
/.Health-Related Behaviors - Answer-✅Behaviors that are performed for reasons other
than health improvement but that have health effects (losing weight to improve self-
presentation, people who are vegetarian due to belief regarding animal rights)
/.Health Education - Answer-✅1) Systematic and planned application (science)
2) Delivery involves a set of planned techniques
3) Primary purpose is to influence antecedents of health behavior so that healthy
behaviors voluntarily
, without pressure.
4) Major purpose is to increase awareness, information processing capability,
knowledge, skills, beliefs,
attitudes, & values.
5) Health education is performed at multiple levels (one on one, group, organization,
community)
/.Health Promotion - Answer-✅1) Term gaining popularity and strength
2) Systematic and planned application (science)
3) Entails methods beyond education such as community organization, coalition
building, advocacy, networking and developing social norms.
4) Does NOT endorse voluntary behavior change but utilizes uniform measures that
induce an individual's behavior change
5) "Health Education" now starting to be referred to as "health education/promotion"
(NCHEC)
/.Seven Areas of Responsibilities for Health Education Specialists - Answer-✅1) Assess
needs, assets and capacity for health education/ promotion
2) Plan Health education/ promotion
3) Implement health education/promotion
4) Conduct evaluation and research related to health education/ promotion
5) Administer and manage health education/promotion
6) Serve as a health education/promotion resource person
7) Communicate, promote, and advocate for health, health education/ promotion, and
profession
/.3 Core Functions of Public Health - Answer-✅Assessment, Policy Development,
Assurance (10 essential public health services.
/.Bloom's Six (6) Categories of Learning: - Answer-✅(1) Knowledge- Recalling data or
information
(2) Comprehension- understanding the meanings and interpretation of instructions or
problems (3) Application- Using a concept in a new situation
(4) Analysis- Separate concepts into component parts for the purpose of understanding
(5) Synthesis- Parts are put back together to create new meaning or structure
(6) Evaluation- Judgements about the value of ideas/materials
/.Health Literacy - Answer-✅Degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain,
communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make
appropriate health decisions.
/.4 components of health literacy - Answer-✅basic literacy, numeracy,
science/technology literacy, community/civic literacy (understanding info we get from
media, politics, internet, social media, etc.), cultural literacy (understanding a
community's collective beliefs and how they interpret health)
Questions And Answers
/.Behavior - Answer-✅Any overt action, conscious or unconscious, with measurable
frequency, intensity, and duration.
/.Behavior is affected by 5 levels of influence - Answer-✅1) Intrapersonal or individual
level factors (knowledge, beliefs, values, self-efficacy/confidence)
2) Interpersonal factors (friends, family, social networks)
3) Institutional or organizational factors (school, work)
4) Community factors (County health department, parks, greenway etc.)
5) Public policy factors (governmental rules, laws, policies, guidelines)
/.Health Behavior - Answer-✅Any activity undertaken by an individual regardless of
actual or perceived health status, for promoting, protecting, or maintaining health,
whether or not such behavior is objectively affective towards that end.
/.Health Behavior - Answer-✅All actions with a potentially measurable frequency,
intensity, and duration performed at the individual, interpersonal, organizational,
community, or public policy level for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.
/.Health Risk Behavior - Answer-✅Specific forms of behavior proven to be associated
with increased susceptibility to a specific disease or illness. Includes those behaviors
associated with increased susceptibility to a specific disease or illness; i.e., smoking,
diet, physical inactivity, sexual behaviors.
/.Health Protective Behavior - Answer-✅Behaviors that protect people from disease or
illness
/.Health-Directed Behaviors - Answer-✅Behaviors that a person consciously pursues for
health improvement or health protection (vaccines, annual physicals, eating healthy
foods for weight management)
/.Health-Related Behaviors - Answer-✅Behaviors that are performed for reasons other
than health improvement but that have health effects (losing weight to improve self-
presentation, people who are vegetarian due to belief regarding animal rights)
/.Health Education - Answer-✅1) Systematic and planned application (science)
2) Delivery involves a set of planned techniques
3) Primary purpose is to influence antecedents of health behavior so that healthy
behaviors voluntarily
, without pressure.
4) Major purpose is to increase awareness, information processing capability,
knowledge, skills, beliefs,
attitudes, & values.
5) Health education is performed at multiple levels (one on one, group, organization,
community)
/.Health Promotion - Answer-✅1) Term gaining popularity and strength
2) Systematic and planned application (science)
3) Entails methods beyond education such as community organization, coalition
building, advocacy, networking and developing social norms.
4) Does NOT endorse voluntary behavior change but utilizes uniform measures that
induce an individual's behavior change
5) "Health Education" now starting to be referred to as "health education/promotion"
(NCHEC)
/.Seven Areas of Responsibilities for Health Education Specialists - Answer-✅1) Assess
needs, assets and capacity for health education/ promotion
2) Plan Health education/ promotion
3) Implement health education/promotion
4) Conduct evaluation and research related to health education/ promotion
5) Administer and manage health education/promotion
6) Serve as a health education/promotion resource person
7) Communicate, promote, and advocate for health, health education/ promotion, and
profession
/.3 Core Functions of Public Health - Answer-✅Assessment, Policy Development,
Assurance (10 essential public health services.
/.Bloom's Six (6) Categories of Learning: - Answer-✅(1) Knowledge- Recalling data or
information
(2) Comprehension- understanding the meanings and interpretation of instructions or
problems (3) Application- Using a concept in a new situation
(4) Analysis- Separate concepts into component parts for the purpose of understanding
(5) Synthesis- Parts are put back together to create new meaning or structure
(6) Evaluation- Judgements about the value of ideas/materials
/.Health Literacy - Answer-✅Degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain,
communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make
appropriate health decisions.
/.4 components of health literacy - Answer-✅basic literacy, numeracy,
science/technology literacy, community/civic literacy (understanding info we get from
media, politics, internet, social media, etc.), cultural literacy (understanding a
community's collective beliefs and how they interpret health)
