Deck 22: Chronic Disease Prevention and Control

Question 1

Two primary settings for the implementation of public health nutrition initiatives are:
a) food service facilities where people generally eat away from home (restaurants, fast food establishments, schools, worksite cafeterias, childcare facilities) and b) food retail venues (grocery stores, convenience stores, farmers' markets) where people buy foods they prepare and eat at home. Based on these settings, what are the public health nutrition strategies?

Answer 1

The public health nutrition strategies are:
a. Increase the availability and accessibility of healthy foods
b. Advertise and promote healthier foods
c. Implement nutrition standards in restaurants, cafeterias, concession stands, and vending machines
d. Strengthen supplemental nutrition programs
e. Encourage and support breastfeeding

Question 2

Excessive alcohol use includes binge drinking and heavy drinking. What are the differences between binge drinking and heavy drinking?

Answer 2

Binge drinking is defined by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as a pattern of drinking that brings blood alcohol concentration levels to 0.08 g/dL. This typically occurs after four drinks for women and five drinks for men-in about two hours.
Heavy drinking is defined as 15 or more drinks per week for men, eight or more drinks per week for women, and any drinking by pregnant women or people under the minimum legal drinking age of 21 years.

Question 3

The 2014 edition of Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs recommends that states take a three-pronged approach to help tobacco users quit with a focus on policy and systems change.? What are the three components of this approach?

Answer 3

The three components are:
a. Promoting health systems change
b. Expanding insurance coverage and utilization of proven cessation treatments
c. Supporting state quitline capacity