Week 1

Which of the following is not a characteristic of public health?

Based on the medical model of health

Focuses on the identification of health related needs

Is centred around education

Is based in a population

What are the core competencies for the healthcare workforce?

Patient centred care; health promotion perspective; advocacy; partnering; quality improvement

Individual focused care; disease prevention; information and communication technology; behavioural based

Patient centred care; partnering; quality improvement; information and communication technology; public health perspective

Health promotion focused; enabling; empowerment; advocacy

Which of the following is the definition of public health?

The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organised community effort for; the sanitation of water; the control of communicable disease; early diagnosis and prevention

The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organised community effort for; the sanitation of the environment, the control of communicable disease, the organisation of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventative treatment of disease and the development of social machinery to ensure everyone an adequate standard of living for the maintenance of health

Health promotion activities on a population level to prevent disease; promote health and reduce the burden of disease

Which of the following are the strategies of public health?

Policy; enabling; information; improving

Advocacy; policy; increasing skills; promoting health

Governance; advocacy; information; capacity

Governance; policy; education; behavioural change

Which of the following is not true of health promotion?

Concentrates on addressing the social and environmental determinants of health

Locates responsibility of health within the society as a whole

Focus on behavioural change

It is the process of enabling people to take control over their health

Based on the medical model of health

Focus on all elements of behaviour

Based on the socio-ecological model of health

Which of the following are key principles for health promotion?

Involves the population as a whole

Is directed towards action of the causes of determinants of health/ill-health

Is based on the socio-ecological model of health

Combines diverse but complementary methods or approaches

Is based around individual needs

Occurs in social and health fields

Aims at effective public particpation

Occurs in health fields

Which of the following describes the ways we can improve health?

Agency - Person; behaviour, lifestyles

Structure - Society; social conditions, power and resources

Agency - Person; behaviour, lifestyles and internal control

Agency - Society; power and resources

Structure - Society; social and economic conditions, power, resources and external control

Which of the following are true of disease prevention?

It was the start of health promotion

Sees health within the positive definition

Locates responsibility for health within an individual

Concentrates of preventing and treating disease

Is based on the socio-ecological model

Sees health within the negative definition

What is health education?

Activities at primary, secondary and tertiary levels designed to prevent disease

Educational programs about the danger of risk factors

Activities designed to facilitate health related learning and behaviour changes

A component of public health

Which of the following is true of health education?

Arose from an awareness that individuals make health choices which can contribute to the development of disease

A recognition that it is possible to inform people about prevention of disease made people realise education is critical

A recognition that people can be motivated and persuaded to change risk behaviours

Involves planned activities for people to learning about health and the risk factors of health conditions

Involves raising awareness of health issues and the factors which contribute to health isssues

Provides information

Involves equipping people to make changes

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