What are the risk factors for chronic disease?
a) Behavioural, biomedical and social
b) Personal, social, economic and environmental
c) Social, behavioural and personal
d) Economic, environmental and genetic
Answer: A
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- What are the determinants of health?
- What are the 3 categories of prevention?
- What are the 3 categories of intervention?
- What are the 3 CORE functions of a PHN workforce?
- What statement below best describes the term 'risk factor' in Public Health Nutrition?
- Population priorities are determined through particular statistics. The most common statistical measures to determine health priorities are;
- The National preventative health strategy provides a blueprint for tackling the burden of chronic disease currently caused by obesity, tobacco, and excessive consumption of alcohol. What area of prevention is it concerned with?
- The Responsible Children's Marketing Initiative is mandatory for Food Industry to comply with.
- What is the goal of the Responsible Children's Marketing Initiative?
- The Core function(s) for the Public Health Nutrition workforce is to
- The number one "global" public health nutrition issue is;
- Groups such as the Obesity Policy Coalition advocate for regulation of advertising to children. This is important because
- "The media do not present simple reflections of external reality. Rather, they present carefully crafted constructions that reflect many decisions and result from many determining factors". Which of the 8 key concepts of media literacy does this relate to?
- In the eight concepts of media literacy, the third concept deals with "Audiences negotiating meaning in the media". This means that;
- If you were a nutritionist in a local council that contained a high percentage of low socio economic groups , what answer best describes how would you use a graph to inform an intervention strategy?
- Give an example of the link between behaviour and chronic disease.
- Public health nutrition focuses on:
- A socio-ecological approach to public health nutrition would involve:
- Which of the following best describes an example of a system-level intervention?
- Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes comprise two of Australia's eight national health priority areas. These diseases are more prevalent in low Socioeconomic Status (SES) groups. What risk factor would a public health nutritionist focus on when planning an intervention to reduce the burden of these diseases?
- When planning an intervention to prevent chronic disease, such as type 2 diabetes, what modifiable risk factor would you target?
- Bill has recently had a stroke and spends some time in the hospital recovering. Once he is discharged, he is encouraged to come back to the hospital's stroke clinic for some follow up education and undertake some rehabilitation with an occupational therapist and physio. This is an example of:
- Implementing policy is an example of what type of intervention?
- When considering the three types of prevention efforts and levels of intervention in public health, how is primary prevention best described?