Chapter 21: Promoting health

1. The World Health Organisation defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social ______ and not merely the absence of disease’.

Answer: well-being

2. The stages of change model of Prochaska and DiClemente include pre-contemplation, contemplation, ______, making a change and maintaining a change.

Answer: Preparation

3. WHO defined health promotion as ‘to enable people to increase ______ over, and to improve their health’.

Answer: control

4. Currently the method of choice for judging risk of developing type II diabetes is not BMI, but measurement of what?

Answer: waist

5. Who is the main author of the current work on inequalities in health?

Answer: Marmot

6. Healthy Lives, ______ is the title of the 2010 white paper on public health.

Answer: Healthy People

7. The Royal College of Nursing says that every encounter is a ______ health encounter.

Answer: public

8. When patients follow a treatment or care regime set up for them by health professionals, they are said to be ______.

Answer: compliant

9. The HPV vaccine protects against which cancer?

Answer: cervical

10. The NHS Health Check (for vascular risk) is offered to everyone over what age?

Answer: 40

11. Name a significant sign of gum disease.

Answer: bleeding

12. What is the best prevention of the spread of colds and flu?

Answer: handwashing

13. What would you recommend as the best accessible exercise for all ages?

Answer: walking

14. What is still the biggest risk factor for coronary heart disease?

Answer: smoking

15. Where do the highest number of accidents occur for all age groups?

Answer: home