Health promotion and the health education
strategies ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Ecological roots - Correct answers✔✔"It emphasizes the interaction between the individual and
the physical and social environment and addresses these determinants of health through social
networks, agencies, institutions, neighborhoods and communities" Navarro, et al. 2007
Health Education - Correct answers✔✔has consciously constructed opportunities for learning
involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving
knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health.
An activity that seeks to inform the individual on the nature and cause of their health/illness...
level of risk associated with lifestyle related behavior... motivate the individual to accept a
process of behavioral change
Any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide
individuals, groups, communities the opportunity to acquire the information and skills needed to
make quality health decisions.
Health Behavior - Correct answers✔✔"Actions of individuals, groups, and organizations as well
as their determinants, correlates and consequences, including social change, policy development
and implementation, improved coping skills and enhanced quality of life"
Influences on health behavior - Correct answers✔✔Social
Cultural
Environmental
Economic
,Genetic
Factors determining health behavior - Correct answers✔✔Predisposing, reinforcing, enabling
Predisposing - Correct answers✔✔Attitudes, belief, values that facilitate or hinder change in
behavior
Reinforcing - Correct answers✔✔Feedback received that promotes or discourages change
Enabling - Correct answers✔✔Societal/system factors to facilitate process or present obstacles
Health behavior determinants - Correct answers✔✔Stage in life cycle
Norms/values of reference group [community]
Perceptions of health/illness
Age, income, ethnicity, education, experience with illness
Cognitive level/development
Societal norms/values
Resources present
Health status
World Health Organization - Correct answers✔✔Goals -
Improve daily living conditions
Focus on inequitable distribution of
Power
Money
, Resources
Measure and understand the problem and the impact of action
WHO 2008 "Closing the Gap in a Generation"
Primary Prevention - Correct answers✔✔Ex: exercise, immunizations
Secondary Prevention - Correct answers✔✔Ex: Detection strategies - testing, BP assessment
Tertiary Prevention - Correct answers✔✔Ex: Rehabilitation, Limiting problem with treatment.
Theory - Correct answers✔✔Theory provides a map of relationships operating in a given
situation
It provides a way of describing
Before .... During .... After
It can be linear or multifactorial
Characteristics of a useful theory - Correct answers✔✔Makes assumptions about a behavior,
health problem, target population. or environment that are:
Logical
Consistent w/ everyday observations
Similar to those used in previous programs
Supportive by past research in same area/ related ideas
Provider: Theory in practice - Correct answers✔✔Provide an organization for planning
Help frame the lesson or intervention
strategies ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Ecological roots - Correct answers✔✔"It emphasizes the interaction between the individual and
the physical and social environment and addresses these determinants of health through social
networks, agencies, institutions, neighborhoods and communities" Navarro, et al. 2007
Health Education - Correct answers✔✔has consciously constructed opportunities for learning
involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving
knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health.
An activity that seeks to inform the individual on the nature and cause of their health/illness...
level of risk associated with lifestyle related behavior... motivate the individual to accept a
process of behavioral change
Any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories that provide
individuals, groups, communities the opportunity to acquire the information and skills needed to
make quality health decisions.
Health Behavior - Correct answers✔✔"Actions of individuals, groups, and organizations as well
as their determinants, correlates and consequences, including social change, policy development
and implementation, improved coping skills and enhanced quality of life"
Influences on health behavior - Correct answers✔✔Social
Cultural
Environmental
Economic
,Genetic
Factors determining health behavior - Correct answers✔✔Predisposing, reinforcing, enabling
Predisposing - Correct answers✔✔Attitudes, belief, values that facilitate or hinder change in
behavior
Reinforcing - Correct answers✔✔Feedback received that promotes or discourages change
Enabling - Correct answers✔✔Societal/system factors to facilitate process or present obstacles
Health behavior determinants - Correct answers✔✔Stage in life cycle
Norms/values of reference group [community]
Perceptions of health/illness
Age, income, ethnicity, education, experience with illness
Cognitive level/development
Societal norms/values
Resources present
Health status
World Health Organization - Correct answers✔✔Goals -
Improve daily living conditions
Focus on inequitable distribution of
Power
Money
, Resources
Measure and understand the problem and the impact of action
WHO 2008 "Closing the Gap in a Generation"
Primary Prevention - Correct answers✔✔Ex: exercise, immunizations
Secondary Prevention - Correct answers✔✔Ex: Detection strategies - testing, BP assessment
Tertiary Prevention - Correct answers✔✔Ex: Rehabilitation, Limiting problem with treatment.
Theory - Correct answers✔✔Theory provides a map of relationships operating in a given
situation
It provides a way of describing
Before .... During .... After
It can be linear or multifactorial
Characteristics of a useful theory - Correct answers✔✔Makes assumptions about a behavior,
health problem, target population. or environment that are:
Logical
Consistent w/ everyday observations
Similar to those used in previous programs
Supportive by past research in same area/ related ideas
Provider: Theory in practice - Correct answers✔✔Provide an organization for planning
Help frame the lesson or intervention
