Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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Review your APA manual for any questions concerning formatting. Download the exam and type in your essay answers (make sure that your completed exam contains the questions as well as your answers). Each question should be answered with at least one paragraph and contain at least one evidence-based literature reference. You may fill in the answers directly into this Word Document and rename it and resave it. Please submit it as an attachment (with questions and answers) to the assignment area. Be sure to include your name at the top in the header. Please follow APA format. Good luck!
1. How can one ensure cultural competency within practice?
2. How does Healthy People 2020 address health challenges?
3. What are the levels of the Social-ecological framework for nutrition decisions?
4. Describe four basic food safety principles?
5. Choose a functional health pattern and describe it.
6. What is culturally competent care?
7. Activity and exercise is important to promote health. What would you recommend a family do to incorporate this within their family? List evidence-based information and statistics that would support your suggestions.
8. What are the advantages of screening?
9. What are the disadvantages of screening?
10. Describe the Health Belief Model. Explain how you applied the HBM to your personal health behavior change process journaling and journey this semester.
11. Descibe each stage of the Transtheoretical Model. Explain how you applied the TTM to your personal health behavior change process journaling and journey this semester.
12. Summarize Social Cognitive Theory. Explain how you applied SCT to your personal health behavior change process journaling and journey this semester.
13. According to Chapter 12, what are the recommended types and amounts of physical activity for adults as given by ACSM and the CDCP? Describe how regular physical activity can benefit hypertension, cardiac heart disease risk factors, glucose intolerance, obesity, and osteoporosis.
14. How can community leaders promote physical activity within its neighborhoods?
15. How does stress affect the body psychologically? Describe two evidence-based research studies that have been done on stress management.
16. Humor has health promoting properties. Describe how humor promotes health.
17. Give an example of how alternative/complementary therapies are used in practice?
18. Name an emerging infection and a prevention method.
19. Describe the three major categories of violence as classified by the World Health Organization. Give an example from each of the three categories.
20. Bioterrorism is classified in three categories. Give an example for each category.
21. BONUS: Public health has ten essential health services. Name three of them.
22. BONUS: Why is bioterrorism such a significant and current public health threat? Describe the national epidemic and pandemic alert responses that have been established.