Deck 3: Approaches to Achieving Health for All

Question 1

Which of the following describes unique community health components that are complementary to a population health approach and guide clinical practice?

A) Leadership is most often provided by experts, researchers, and governments.
B) Community assets are identified by experts in population health.
C) Relational aspects, partnerships, and community engagement are priorities.
D) Health status linked to epidemiology and economics inquiry is highlighted.

Answer 1

Relational aspects, partnerships, and community engagement are priorities.

Question 2

Why is there a risk that a policy designed to tackle the determinants of health as a primary prevention initiative may drift toward addressing individual lifestyle concerns?

A) It is a misguided policy intention.
B) Population health attitudes favour individual lifestyle concerns.
C) There is little chance of policy design acceptance.
D) A policy designed to address the determinants of health involves a great deal of upstream complexity.

Answer 2

A policy designed to address the determinants of health involves a great deal of upstream complexity.

Question 3

Why would a health care provider encourage and plan interventions that include downstream, midstream, and upstream activities when responding to a population health concern such as obesity among school-age children?

A) Behaviour change theories require implementation at all levels of prevention.
B) Health status improvements are greater through when using all levels of prevention.
C) The planning involved is interdisciplinary and usually interprofessional.
D) Interventions risks will be reduced when you influence health status.

Answer 3

Health status improvements are greater through when using all levels of prevention.

Question 4

What is the intended outcome of health communications?

A) Mandatory participation of individuals in specific health-promoting activities
B) Harm-reduction approaches in priority health care services
C) Individual decisions and actions that improve health circumstances
D) Hazard identification, including the hazardous agent and harm potential

Question 5

Choosing to publicly communicate a small increase in disease incidence as an "outbreak" rather than as an "epidemic" would indicate which of the following outrage management expectations?

A) Expected outrage is high and the hazard is low.
B) Public response to the concern will be limited.
C) Public concern about the disease is not expected to be overly high.
D) Expected outrage is low and the hazard is high.

Question 6

Why is knowing how to influence public policy a necessary skill for a health care provider who seeks to address the causes of a specific population health issue?

A) Public policy development is a simple linear sustainable midstream process.
B) Strong scientific evidence is always included in the policy-making process.
C) Public policies offer upstream action that supports the social good.
D) Policy changes provide predictable downstream individual action.

Question 7

How does using an asset-based community development approach assist in responding to and addressing the determinants of health within a community?

A) Experts identify community assets and then mobilize the community.
B) Communities set their own targets using a partnership model.
C) Communities begin by identifying community gaps in assets.
D) Programs that are in place in another community are adapted for use.

Question 8

Which strategic approach aligns with public health advocacy and facilitation practice to focus on community development advocacy goals while highlighting strengths in addressing community needs?

A) Citizen juries in policy development
B) Philanthropic social entrepreneurship
C) Policy readiness initiatives and resources
D) Asset-based community development

Question 9

Why is understanding risk communication considered vital to effective population health activities? (Select all that apply.)

A) The factors that shape how people perceive risk are complex.
B) Precautionary advocacy is relatively unimportant to public response.
C) The risk of a hazard is the most important information to communicate.
D) Policies may be needed to reduce high risk when public outrage is low.
E) Hazard factors, perception of risk, and response by the public may be inconsistent.

Question 10

Which of the following represent(s) effective action for promoting community health? (Select all that apply.)

A) Experts leading health promotion initiatives
B) Public health advocacy
C) Political economy framework
D) Collective action effects
E) Community-directed response