Exam 1: Opportunities in Community Nutrition

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Discuss the premise of the Healthy People initiative.​

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​Healthy People is a set of goals and objectives with 10-year targets designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the health of all people in the U.S. For the past three decades, Healthy People has provided a framework for promoting health and avoiding preventable disease.

According to social-ecological model, interpersonal levels of influence include ____. ​

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​Explain how the three arenas of community nutrition work in tandem.

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The three arenas of community nutrition practices are people, policy, and programs. Policy is a course of action chose by public authorities to address a given problem. Programs are based on the needs identified by policy. Within the policy, target audiences (people) who have the greatest need for the programming are identified.
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Public health nutrition refers to those community-based programs conducted by a government agency.​

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Discuss how the "health continuum" could be utilized when planning health promotion.​​

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Excess calorie intake and physical inactivity are the leading causes of overweight and obesity but offer the best opportunity for prevention and treatment.​

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Healthy People 2020 is a set of goals and objectives that focuses on healthcare industry reforms.​

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Community nutrition is a discipline that strives to improve the health, nutrition, and well-being of individuals and groups within communities.​

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A community is a grouping of people who reside in a specific locality and interact and connect through social structure.​

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Match the characteristic in the left column with its correct current American generation.​ -This generation is focused on personal growth, and interested in removing outdated work models.​

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Match the characteristic in the left column with its correct current American generation.​ -First generation to be born into a digital world and the most electronically connected generation in history.​

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​Baby boomers were born prior to 1946 and are not completely comfortable with technology-based information.

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​Describe and give an example of each of the three levels of prevention.

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Most community nutrition positions require registration as a dietitian by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.​

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​Match the definition in the left column with the appropriate term in the right column. -​An approach to collecting data on a population's health and nutritional status in which data collection occurs regularly and repeatedly.

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Entrepreneurship is the creation of something of value through the creation of organization.​

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Community dietitians are always registered dietitians or licensed dietitians.

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The primary focus for the Healthy People 2020 agenda is ____.​

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Define "health" and explain why understanding the causes of disease and ill health does not necessarily lead to an understanding of the causes of good health.​

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List the four goals of Healthy People 2020.​

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