Nutrition 430 - exam 1 Study Guide Solutions

Nutrition 430 - exam 1 Study Guide Solutions What three health domains in American are poorer than other industrialized nations - Ans:--heart disease -obesity -infant mortality rate compare American's participation in behaviors that are linked to poor health to other high-income countries - Ans:-o American's consume more calories per capita, abuse more prescription and illicit drugs, are less likely to fasten seat belts, have more traffic accidents involving alcohol, own more firearms than their peers in other countries, and become sexually active at a younger age o There is a higher rate of poverty in the US o Physical and social environments in the US, effecting how we travel and our food consumption o Stressful environments ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/15 Health promotion and wellness - Ans:-the process of enabling people to achieve their maximum potential for good health what is the primary goal of the practice of community and public health nutrition - Ans:-health promotion and disease prevention public health - Ans:-o The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts, so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to realize his/her birthright of health and longevity o Fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy community nutrition intervention - Ans:-Any activity that is planned and targeted to change a behavior, typically emphasizing maintaining health or preventing a disease describe three basic types of prevention efforts - Ans:-primary, secondary, and tertiary primary prevention - Ans:-health promotion (intervene prior to the onset of disease to eliminate or reduce risk factors), improve quality of life, social and personal productivity, and reduce burden on society. Preventing disease incidence secondary prevention - Ans:-screening process, measuring something to identify if they are at risk or not, prevent progression to established diseases tertiary prevention - Ans:-disease management to reduce co-morbidities or early mortality ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/15 what are the three targets of community nutrition interventions - Ans:-individual, community, and system based individual based target - Ans:-looking for change in an individual • Adv: ID highest risk, ability to provide to their needs • Dis: maybe missing people and not be able to ID everyone at risk community based target - Ans:-targeting a larger group • Adv: may save more lives than individual, may result in change in environment • Dis: May not be cost effective (because not everyone will be at risk), lacks ability to personalize system based target - Ans:-the systems that serve the people (policy) what are three core responsibilities of community/public health nutrition professionals - Ans:- assessment, policy and program development, assurance assessment (as a core responsibility) - Ans:-• Determining what needs to be done in your community - identifying the problems • Collecting data about your community, analyzing the data to determine if the problems exist • Monitoring: assessing the data over time ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 4/15 Policy and program development (as a core responsibility) - Ans:-Creating an intervention, way to prevent or eliminate the problem Assurance (as a core responsibility) - Ans:-• Evaluating if it was successful • if there was anything to change to make the intervention better • Making sure the policy was implemented define community needs - Ans:-the gap between what is and what should be (how things are now and how we would like them to be) community needs assessment definition - Ans:-evaluates health and nutrition status of community, identifies community resources and community's capacity to promote the publ