BBH 316 exam 1
Health promotion is designed to understand the links between the
environment, human behavior, and health outcomes. t/f - correct answer
✔true
How do we measure obesity at the population level? - correct answer ✔BMI
public health - correct answer ✔helping people find their way to better health
+ focuses on helping entire populations (rather than one person at a time like
medicine)
target population - correct answer ✔a targeted group of people for whom an
intervention or program is intended to generalize
WHO definition of health - correct answer ✔A complete state of physical,
mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
health promotions - correct answer ✔a combined set of activities that help
educate people and help them engage in behaviors designed to improve their
health
Health promotion often operates by first attempting to understand
__________. - correct answer ✔the links between human behavior, their
environment, and their health outcomes
Jamie Oliver's TED talk emphasizes which method to reduce weight? - correct
answer ✔improving diet
, According to Jamie Oliver, how many years less is a child living than their
parents bc of their dietary choices? - correct answer ✔10 years
Which top 10 cause of death is not associated with diet?
stroke
diabetes
kidney disease
cancers - correct answer ✔kidney disease
wellness - correct answer ✔the process of actively making choices to
achieve optimal health
What is the opposite of health? - correct answer ✔disease
disease - correct answer ✔any change in the body that causes the body's
regulatory system to fail
acute vs chronic - correct answer ✔acute: short term
chronic: long-term
What is responsible for disease/illness/injury? - correct answer ✔structure
(cancerous tumor or broken bone)
biochemistry (elevated BG or activated immune response)
From the "What is Public Health" video, how is public health defined? - correct
answer ✔A discipline that addresses health at a population level
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