Deck 10: Communities and Populations As the Focus for Health Promotion Programs

Question 1

Which types of interventions include programs that may combine multiple types of activities and treatments to address multiple factors that occur together, such as poverty, high diabetes risk, and poor diet?

A) Focused prevention interventions
B) Selected prevention interventions
C) Indicated prevention interventions
D) Universal prevention interventions

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Incorporating the use of which of the following brings legitimacy to the project because they are closely connected to the target population and are perceived as "knowing how it is"?

A) Community health nurses
B) Community health physicians
C) Community health researchers
D) Community health outreach workers

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following means that an intervention or program you put in place needs to refer, as much as possible, to situations, people, and issues relevant to the target community/population?

A) Monitoring
B) Targeting
C) Tailoring
D) Focusing

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Making sure to train and hire members of the community to manage and operate the program is one step to increase which aspect of the program?

A) Feasibility
B) Sustainability
C) Adaptability
D) Functionality

Question 5

Which stage of the REACH model incudes intervention activities believed to bring about a desired effect with a specific group or population?

A) Capacity building
B) Targeted actions
C) Community/systems change
D) Health disparity reduction

Question 6

Which organization is well known for incorporating a community focus into preventive interventions?

A) Institute of Medicine
B) World Health Organization
C) National Institutes of Health
D) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 7

An increasing amount of health promotion and related research efforts require the integration or participation of the community in the project itself.

Question 8

Health problems exist in aggregates of people, whether at the global, national, regional, or local level.

Question 9

Tailoring is a process of adapting an existing program to a new situation, community, or population, as much as it is developing a new program.

Question 10

The business of public health, by nature, is the business of addressing the health of community aggregates.