1. What is the role of health risk appraisal in health promotion and disease prevention? - -a. It is the evaluation of risk factors and their health consequences for individuals. Only when the risks
factors and their health consequences are known can interventions be developed to help individuals
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1. What is the role of health risk appraisal in health promotion and disease prevention? - ✔✔-a. It is the
evaluation of risk factors and their health consequences for individuals. Only when the risks
factors and their health consequences are known can interventions be developed to help individuals
adopt healthier lifestyles.
2. Health promotion and disease prevention may require both behavioral modification and therapeutic
intervention. Discuss. - ✔✔-a. Behavior can be modified through educational programs and incentives
directed at a specific high-risk populations.
b. Therapeutic interventions fall into 3 categories:
i. Primary prevention—activities undertaken to reduce the probability that a disease will develop
in the future
ii. Secondary prevention—early detection and treatment of disease, main objective is to block the
progression of a disease or an injury from developing into an impairment or disability
iii. Tertiary prevention—interventions that could prevent complications from chronic
conditions and prevent further illness, injury, or disability
3. Discuss the definitions of health presented in this chapter in terms of their implications for the health
care
delivery system. - ✔✔-a. Health has been defined as the absence of illness or disease and the
implication is that the health care delivery system emphasizes diagnosis and treatment of disease rather
that prevention of disease.
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