Exam Preparation:
Week one:
Health is best described as a resource that allows a person to have:
(a) A social and spiritual life
(b) A productive
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(c) Economic well-being
(d) Physical capacity
What distinguishes primary health care from primary care?
(a) A focus on primary, secondary and tertiary intervention
(b) Provision of interventions specific to the health need
(c) Works within a multidisciplinary framework
(d) Planning and operation of services is centralised
The main aim of public health is to improve health by:
(a) Providing medical intervention appropriate for the individual
(b) Performing research to compare the effectiveness of treatments
(c) Promoting health and preventing disease in populations
(d) Providing advice on risk markers and genetics to families
Comprehensive primary health care is characterised by activities that work to change:
(a) Social and political determinants of illness
(b) Economic and educational well-being
(c) Health status in communities, regions or cities
(d) All of the above
Health car is predominantly:
(a) The province of the diagnostician
(b) Community focused
(c) Political in nature
(d) Independent in nature
A determinant that is clearly related to a change in health status is defined as a:
(a) Distal determinant
(b) Social determinant
(c) Proximal determinant
(d) Ecological determinant
Primary prevention is concerned with:
(a) Preventing disease or illness occurring
(b) Delaying the progress of an existing disease or illness
(c) Maintaining current health status
(d) Treatment of existing disease or illness
Predictors of future population health includes factors such as:
(a) Peoples circumstances
(b) Childhood lifestyle factors
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(c) Geographic location of people
(d) All of the above
Primary health care focuses on:
(a) Providing early diagnosis and treatment
(b) Performing health surveillance measures
(c) Exploring the relationship between determinants of health
(d) Reducing inequity and improving effects of disadvantage
An example of primary health care is an:
(a) Nurse practitioner clinic
(b) Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
(c) Outpatient clinic for a specific disease process
(d) Aged Care Services Organisation
Social determinants of health:
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