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NURS 299 - Module 1 Exam Study Guide
Solutions
culture - Ans:✔✔-as an element of ethnicity, refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that
include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of
racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups.
cultural values - Ans:✔✔-guide actions and decision-making that facilitates self-worth and self-esteem.
They shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status,
how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek
health care.
ethnicity - Ans:✔✔-focuses on differences in meanings, values, and ways of living.
race - Ans:✔✔-is associated with power and indexes the history or ongoing imposition of one's group's
authority above another.
values - Ans:✔✔-are beliefs about the worth of something and serve as standards that influence
behavior and thinking.
Value orientations - Ans:✔✔-reflect the personality type of a particular society.
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health - Ans:✔✔-is the merging and balancing of six physical and psychologic dimensions of health:
physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
nutrition - Ans:✔✔-is the study of essential nutrients and the processes by which nutrients are used by
the body.
wellness - Ans:✔✔-is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
health promotion - Ans:✔✔-consists of strategies used to increase the level of health of individuals,
families, groups, and communities.
* Knowledge
* Techniques
* Community supports
disease prevention - Ans:✔✔-is the recognition of a danger to health that could be reduced or alleviated
through specific actions or changes in lifestyle behaviors.
** Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
** Role of nutrition
health literacy - Ans:✔✔-is the ability to understand basic health concepts and apply them to one's own
health decisions.
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** Formal education
** Non-formal education
** Informal education
Learning Objectives:
define health and wellness. - Ans:✔✔-○ Health: is the merging and balancing of six physical and
psychologic dimensions of health: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
○ Wellness: is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
Learning Objectives:
define health promotion. - Ans:✔✔--- it is very important in nursing. --
○ Health Promotion: consists of strategies used to increase the level of health of individuals, families,
groups, and communities.
* Knowledge
* Techniques
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* Community supports
Learning Objectives:
state the purpose of Healthy People 2020 (HP2020). - Ans:✔✔-It is a program of the US Department of
Health and Human Services (USDHHS). ○ It is based on the vision of a society in which all people live long
and healthy lives (based on ecological model of health).
- Its mission is to improve health through strengthening policy and practice.
○ (watch slide 8) & (box 1-1 from the book)
○ The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is an American survey that monitors
the dietary intake, medical history, biochemical evaluation, and measurement of American groups that
were carefully chosen to represent the total population. Also, the National Food consumption Survey
(NFCS).
Learning Objectives:
describe health literacy. - Ans:✔✔-it is the ability to understand basic health concepts and apply them to
one's own health decisions.
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NURS 299 - Module 1 Exam Study Guide
Solutions
culture - Ans:✔✔-as an element of ethnicity, refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that
include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of
racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups.
cultural values - Ans:✔✔-guide actions and decision-making that facilitates self-worth and self-esteem.
They shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status,
how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek
health care.
ethnicity - Ans:✔✔-focuses on differences in meanings, values, and ways of living.
race - Ans:✔✔-is associated with power and indexes the history or ongoing imposition of one's group's
authority above another.
values - Ans:✔✔-are beliefs about the worth of something and serve as standards that influence
behavior and thinking.
Value orientations - Ans:✔✔-reflect the personality type of a particular society.
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health - Ans:✔✔-is the merging and balancing of six physical and psychologic dimensions of health:
physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
nutrition - Ans:✔✔-is the study of essential nutrients and the processes by which nutrients are used by
the body.
wellness - Ans:✔✔-is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
health promotion - Ans:✔✔-consists of strategies used to increase the level of health of individuals,
families, groups, and communities.
* Knowledge
* Techniques
* Community supports
disease prevention - Ans:✔✔-is the recognition of a danger to health that could be reduced or alleviated
through specific actions or changes in lifestyle behaviors.
** Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention
** Role of nutrition
health literacy - Ans:✔✔-is the ability to understand basic health concepts and apply them to one's own
health decisions.
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** Formal education
** Non-formal education
** Informal education
Learning Objectives:
define health and wellness. - Ans:✔✔-○ Health: is the merging and balancing of six physical and
psychologic dimensions of health: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental.
○ Wellness: is a lifestyle that enhance our level of health
Learning Objectives:
define health promotion. - Ans:✔✔--- it is very important in nursing. --
○ Health Promotion: consists of strategies used to increase the level of health of individuals, families,
groups, and communities.
* Knowledge
* Techniques
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* Community supports
Learning Objectives:
state the purpose of Healthy People 2020 (HP2020). - Ans:✔✔-It is a program of the US Department of
Health and Human Services (USDHHS). ○ It is based on the vision of a society in which all people live long
and healthy lives (based on ecological model of health).
- Its mission is to improve health through strengthening policy and practice.
○ (watch slide 8) & (box 1-1 from the book)
○ The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is an American survey that monitors
the dietary intake, medical history, biochemical evaluation, and measurement of American groups that
were carefully chosen to represent the total population. Also, the National Food consumption Survey
(NFCS).
Learning Objectives:
describe health literacy. - Ans:✔✔-it is the ability to understand basic health concepts and apply them to
one's own health decisions.
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