Nurs 299 Questions With Correct
Detailed Answers.
Health - ANSWER- wellness, illness, disease
Epidemiology - ANSWER- the study of health and disease in a society
Dr. Margaret Newman's 2 Paradigms of Health - ANSWER- The wellness illness
continuum and the developmental perspective
Wellness Illness Continuum - ANSWER- High-level wellness vs. depletion of health
High Level Wellness - ANSWER- A sense of well-being, life satisfaction, and quality of
life.
Depletion of Health - ANSWER- disease and illness
Developmental Perspective - ANSWER- expanding conscious, personal transformation
Ecological Method of Health - ANSWER- developmental approach that promotes health
at indiv, family, community, and society level
The Ecological Method of Health has an emphasis on what? (also define) - ANSWER-
On social determinants of health (societal factors that influence health and options
available to improve health)
What are the 4 models of health? - ANSWER- clinical model, role performance model,
adaptive model, eudaimonistic model
Clinical Model of Health - ANSWER- health's defined by the absence of s/s of disease
illness is the presence of s/s of disease
People who use the Ecological Method may not use what measures? - ANSWER-
Preventive measures
Role Performance Model - ANSWER- Health is the ability to fulfill societal roles (work
and family)
Illness is the failure to perform those social roles
,The Role Performance Mode is used when? - ANSWER- occupational health evals,
school medical examinations, physician excused absences
The idea of a blank blank is used for excused absences - ANSWER- sick role
Adaptive Model - ANSWER- health is the ability to adjust positively to social, mental,
and psychological change
illness is the disability to adapt to these changes
An example of the Adaptive Model? - ANSWER- spirituality
Eudaimonistic Model - ANSWER- exuberant (lively and with high energy) wellbeing
defines health
interactions with social, physical, psychological aspects of life and the environment is
how health is measured
illness is a lack of involvement with life
A dying person may still be happy under the eudaemonistic model why? - ANSWER- if
they find meaning in life
The Wellness Illness Continuum is the relationship between - ANSWER- health and
disease
Wellness - ANSWER- positive stage
Health Ecology - ANSWER- *Interconnection* between *people with physical/social
environments*; Health is connected to surroundings
Functioning in health - ANSWER- being present or absent, low or high wellness
Negative Functioning - ANSWER- unable to move arm and being unable to leave the
house
Health - ANSWER- The state of optimal physical, mental, and social well-being.
Disease (or without ease) - ANSWER- Ecological definition: person's adaptive
mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stresses adequately, resulting in functional or
structural disturbances.
Illness - ANSWER- composed of the subjective experience of the individual and the
physical manifestation of disease
, What are the four goals of Health People 2020 - ANSWER- For Healthy People 2020
(USDHHS, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2011), there are four
overarching goals: • Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease,
disability, injury, and premature death. • Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and
improve the
health of all groups. • Create social and physical environments that promote good
health for all. • Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy
behaviors across all life stages.
Healthy People 2010 overachieving goals wtf - ANSWER- increase quality of life,
eliminate health disparities (access to care)
Healthy People 2020 Overarching Goals - ANSWER- 1. Attain high-quality, longer lives
free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life
stages.
What are the three levels of prevention? - ANSWER- primary (and primordial),
secondary, tertiary
Primordial Prevention - ANSWER- timeframe before a risk factor develops and before
disease occurs. Begins as early as childhood and is closely linked to the determinants
of health and the environment (income, education, literacy, employment, SCHOOL
PROGRAMS)
Primary Prevention - ANSWER- Actions that change overall background conditions to
prevent some unwanted event or circumstance, such as injury, disease, or abuse.
Primary Prevention includes (2) - ANSWER- health promotion and specific protection
Health Promotion - ANSWER- health education about risk factors
Specific Protection - ANSWER- immunization and reducing exposure to hazards and
carcinogens
Health Protection for Primary and Primordial - ANSWER- reduction of negative
influences on health
Health Promotion for Primary and Primordial - ANSWER- help change people's lives
Secondary Prevention - ANSWER- treating early stages of disease to limiting disability
by delaying the advancement of a disease (screening)