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EXAM 1 Material BBH 316 Practice
Questions and Answers
What is health promotion? - Answer✔️✔️-programs/interventions are
implemented to promote a change in caertain BEHAVIOR
Why do we need health promotion? - Answer✔️✔️-P, I , I
What does P, I , I stand for - Answer✔️✔️-Prevent, intervene, improve
What is health?/ - Answer✔️✔️-Health is a social, physical, mental well
being, absence of disease
What is health considered? - Answer✔️✔️-A resource
what is your well being - Answer✔️✔️-Balanced state/ wholeness
How do you look at health ? - Answer✔️✔️-Bio, social , psychological,
economical, polit
Why do we have health promotion programs - Answer✔️✔️--we have health
promotion programs for public health
-IMPORVE pysical , work outcomes
-Want to create a healthier community
-lower overall health care costs
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WHAT IS HEALTH PROMOTION BASED ON - Answer✔️✔️-
(ECOLOGICAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE LEVELS OF INFLUENCE)
-1. INTRAPERSONAL
2. INTERPERSONAL
-3. POPULATION LEVEL
What are the three levels of health promotion: interpersonal, intrapersonal,
and population level based on - Answer✔️✔️-ecological health perspective
levels of influence
What are the three different levels of prevention? - Answer✔️✔️-primary,
secondary, and tertiary
What is primary prevention - Answer✔️✔️-When you try to prevent
someone from getting disease or sick
EX: telling them they need to workout,or go on a diet
What is secondary prevention? - Answer✔️✔️-When the person has the
disease , but they do not know they have the disease yet
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EX: mammagram, screenings, colonoscopy
What is tertiary ? - Answer✔️✔️-After when person is already sick ,
preventing any further damage
-trying to improve the quality of life of that indiv
EX: like treatment for cancer , blood thinners (already have the disease)
In prevent, intervene, and improve is primary prevention apart of?? -
Answer✔️✔️-The prevtion stage
In prevent, intervene, and improve what is secondary prevention apart of?
- Answer✔️✔️-The intervene stage when you are getting a screening
In prevent, intervene, and improve, what is tertiary prevention apart of? -
Answer✔️✔️-Improve
What is the history with health , how did it begin with disease ? and who? -
Answer✔️✔️-John Snow with the cholera outbreak
What was the source of that incident ? - Answer✔️✔️-The water source
coming from the well
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