Deck 6: Population Health Promotion Models and Strategies

Question 1

"The process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health" is a definition of what concept?

A) Health promotion
B) Social change
C) Social justice
D) Empowerment

Answer 1

Health promotion

Question 2

A new nurse wants to adopt Butterfield's approach to nursing practice.What will the nurse need to do?

A) Think downstream
B) Adopt a microscopic approach
C) Rescue more clients
D) Think upstream

Answer 2

Think upstream

Question 3

What was the most important goal of health promotion in the 1980s?

A) Social change
B) Social justice
C) Individual behaviour change
D) Reduction in mortality rates

Answer 3

Social change

Question 4

Within public health nursing,what does critical caring theory aim to reincorporate?

A) A social justice agenda
B) Empowerment
C) Developing personal skills
D) Immunization

Question 5

What group published Strategies for Population Health: Investing in the Health of Canadians?

A) Federal,Provincial,Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health
B) British Columbia Public Health Nursing Advisory Committee
C) World Health Organization
D) Canadian Nurses Association

Question 6

What publication is widely recognized as marking the transition from medical and behavioural health determinants to a new socio-environmental health promotion approach?

A) Alma Ata Declaration
B) An article by Labonte
C) Ottawa Charter
D) Innocenti Declaration

Question 7

What does individual empowerment involve?

A) Resource access
B) Increased local action
C) Stronger social networks
D) Self-efficacy

Question 8

A nurse is working with a senior's group,using a biomedical approach to health.What is the best example of this approach?

A) Influenza immunizations
B) Telephone support
C) A health fair
D) Nutrition classes

Question 9

What concept is defined by "Where the needs of the many have priority over the needs of the individual"?

A) The common good
B) Primary health care
C) Social justice
D) Inequity balance

Question 10

A nurse practises from a socio-ecological perspective.What would be a subsystem of the ecosystem the nurse would look at?

A) Culture
B) Education
C) Lifestyle
D) Food Security

Question 11

A nurse in a remote northern community recognizes that a number of factors have an influence on the health of people in the community.Which factor has the greatest influence on health?

A) Health care services
B) Increased health care funding
C) Northern weather patterns
D) Social and economic conditions

Question 12

The Kostalanskys live in a low-income neighbourhood in Vancouver and have two children under 5 years.How likely are their children to experience overweight/obesity when compared to the general population?

A) They are likely to be underweight,not overweight.
B) Their risk is the same.
C) They are more likely to be overweight.
D) They are five times more likely to be overweight.

Question 13

Which model was developed to explain why individuals do or do not take action to prevent disease?

A) Disease Prevention Model
B) Health Belief Model
C) Population Health Promotion Model
D) Health Equity Model

Question 14

A nurse is studying Labonte's (1993)work on the major approaches to health enhancement in the 20th century.What is one of the major approaches proposed by Labonte?

A) Epidemiological approach
B) Pathogenic approach
C) Lifestyle approach
D) Cultural approach

Question 15

A nurse is focusing specifically on addressing inequalities in health.From what perspective is the nurse practising?

A) Empowerment
B) Microscopic
C) Critical social
D) Biomedical

Question 16

What is included in Hartrick's model of family health promotion?

A) Identifying the family's problems and needs
B) Facilitating empowerment
C) Providing the client with solutions to problems
D) Redirecting opportunities for positive change

Question 17

What does the Population Health Promotion Model most closely reflect?

A) Socio-environmental perspective
B) Natural law perspective
C) Social change perspective
D) Biomedical perspective

Question 18

In what decade did the birth of the modern era of health promotion as an organized and distinct multidisciplinary field occur?

A) 1950s
B) 1930s
C) 1970s
D) 1990s

Question 19

A conference in what Canadian city is widely recognized as having given birth to the worldwide movement to establish healthy cities/communities?

A) Toronto
B) Vancouver
C) Montreal
D) St.John's

Question 20

A nurse is participating in an active,involved process where the people,groups,and communities in the area are moving toward increased individual and community control,political efficacy,improved quality of community life,and social justice.What is the nurse working toward?

A) A lifestyle approach
B) Biomedical stability
C) Community empowerment
D) Developing a healthy city

Question 21

A nurse has instituted a parenting class for new mothers at the local community centre.What is the most significant problem with this program?

A) This will create inequities as some mothers may not be able to attend.
B) New mothers may not feel they need this type of assistance.
C) These programs have been shown to not work.
D) Classes should not discriminate against fathers.

Question 22

What is a guideline for promoting community health nursing?

A) Planning programs with other health care professionals
B) Being patient
C) Downstream thinking
D) Assessing clients' needs and problems

Question 23

What is an example of developing personal skills in health promotion?

A) Reading professional journals
B) Conducting parenting classes
C) Supporting after-school programs
D) Attending a conference

Question 24

A nurse has facilitated the development of a new mothers' support group,led and run by the mothers.What type of approach is the nurse using?

A) Biomedical
B) Lifestyle
C) Critical caring
D) Socio-environmental

Question 25

Discuss three of the five principles of health promotion as outlined by the World Health Organization in 1984.

Question 26

Compare and contrast a socio-environmental approach to health promotion with population health.

Question 27

Over the past 35 years,which approach to health promotion has been most dominant for nurses?

A) Behavioural/lifestyle
B) Socio-environmental
C) Population health
D) Critical caring