Chapter 10: Supporting and promoting health
1. Primary prevention aims to prevent ______.
- the disease developing at all
- the disease from progressing
- the consequences of the disease
2. The World Health Organisation recommended target for immunization uptake in most programmes is ______.
- 50%
- 75%
- 95%
3. The term ‘incidence’ refers to ______.
- the total number of cases of a disease, condition or event in a particular population
- the number of new cases of a disease, condition or event in a particular population
- the total number of cases of a disease, condition or event across all populations
4. The Dahlgren and Whitehead (1991) ‘rainbow’ illustrates the following health determinants ______.
- age, sex and constitutional factors, individual lifestyle factors
- social and community networks, general socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions
- all of the above
5. Inequalities in health can be evidenced by ______.
- people living in the most affluent areas of the country having a higher life expectancy than those living in the most deprived areas
- various members of one family expressing different health needs
- a number of healthcare professionals demonstrating different approaches to health promotion