Healthy Foundations in Early Childhood
Unit 1 Health Promotion Exam Questions
With Verified Answers
What is health? - answer✔✔a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Quality of life - answer✔✔refers to the degree to which an individual enjoys the important
dimensions of her or his life, including the fulfillment of physical and emotional needs, social
belonging, and the realization of goals, hopes, and aspirations.
Social Determinants of Health - answer✔✔Culture, income and social status, social support
networks, employment and working conditions, education and literacy, social environments,
physical environments, personal health practices and coping skills, healthy child development,
biology and Genetic endowment, health services, and gender
Income and Social Status - answer✔✔higher income and social status are linked to better health.
The greater the gap between the richest and poorest people, the greater the differences in health.
Poverty is the greatest barrier (or threat) to health - people living in poverty are much more likely
to develop health problems.
Social Support Networks - answer✔✔Support from families, friends and communities is
associated with better health. Such social support networks could be very important in helping
people solve problems and deal with adversity, as well as in maintaining a sense of mastery and
control over life circumstances.
Employment and Working Conditions - answer✔✔Unemployment, underemployment, stressful
or unsafe work are associated with poorer health.
People who have more control over their work circumstances and fewer stress related demands
of the job are healthier and often live longer than those in more stressful or riskier work and
activities.
Education and Literacy - answer✔✔Education is closely tied to socioeconomic status, and
effective education for children and lifelong learning for adults are key contributors to health and
prosperity for individuals and for the country. Education contributes to health and prosperity by
equipping people with knowledge and skills for problem solving and helps provide a sense of
control and mastery over life circumstances.
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, Social Environments - answer✔✔The strength of social networks within a community, region,
province, or country. It is reflected in the institutions, organizations, and informal giving
practices that people create to share resources and build attachments with others.
Physical Environments - answer✔✔At certain levels of exposure, contaminants in our air, water,
food, and soil can cause a variety of adverse health effects, including cancer, birth defects,
respiratory illness, and gastrointestinal ailments.
Personal Health Practices and Coping Skills - answer✔✔Actions by which individuals can
prevent diseases and promote self-care, cope with challenges, and develop self-reliance, solve
problems and make choices that enhance health.
Healthy Child Development - answer✔✔A healthy start in life has a great impact on the well-
being of children and throughout life, providing opportunities for children to develop the
attributes and resilience needed to mature into healthy adults in our complex society.
Biology and Genetic Endowment - answer✔✔Provides an inherited predisposition to a wide
range of individual responses that affect health status.
Health Services - answer✔✔Designed to maintain and promote health, to prevent disease, and to
restore health and function, contribute to population health.
Gender - answer✔✔The array of society-determined roles, personality traits, attitudes, behaviors,
values, relative power, and influence that society ascribes to the two sexes on a differential basis.
Culture - answer✔✔Some people or groups may face additional health risks due to
socioeconomic environment that is largely determined by dominant cultural values that
contribute to the perpetuation of conditions such as marginalization, stigmatization, loss or
devaluation of language and culture, and lack of access to culturally appropriate health care and
services.
Population Health - answer✔✔studies why some groups of people are healthier than others.
Population Health Approach - answer✔✔Aims to improve the health of the entire population and
to reduce health inequities among population groups.
The National Principals of Medicare - answer✔✔Publicly administered- A public authority is
accountable to its provincial/territorial government.
Comprehensiveness- Medicare covers all necessary medical procedures.
Universality- Medicare is available to all Canadians.
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