Chapter 7: Health Promotion

1. Health promotion focuses on ______.

  1. individual behaviour
  2. changing the wider social conditions and systems that affect health
  3. the wider environmental conditions and systems that affect health
  4. all of these

Answer: D

2. Health education is ______.

  1. very specific learning experiences
  2. any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes
  3. any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals improve their health
  4. any combination of learning experiences designed to help communities improve their health

Answer: B

3. Health education can be achieved through ______.

  1. face-to-face contact with individuals
  2. face-to-face contact with groups within a community
  3. implementing government initiatives relating to public health
  4. all of these

Answer: D

4. OARS stands for ______.

  1. open questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries
  2. open questions, acknowledgments reflections and summaries
  3. open questions, affirmations, responses and summaries
  4. open questions, acknowledgements, responses and summaries

Answer: A

5. The Health Behavioural Competency Framework (2010) describes the route MAP as ______.

  1. motivation, act, plan
  2. motivation, act, prompt
  3. measure, act, proceed
  4. measure, act, prompt

Answer: B