Lecture 8.1: Innovative, Evidence-Based Health Promotion

Question 1

What is a Public Health Intervention?

Answer 1

An act performed for, with or on behalf of a population whose purpose is to assess, improve, maintain, promote or modify health, functioning or health conditions

Question 2

What is a Health Intervention?

Answer 2

An act performed for, with or on behalf of a person or
population whose purpose is to assess, improve, maintain, promote or modify health, functioning or health conditions

Question 3

What is Health Promotion?

Answer 3

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health

Question 4

Baseline data should be used to..? (2)

Answer 4

• Identify, and usually quantify the scale of the problem
• Can be used to formulate measurable targets for
  monitoring and evaluation purposes

Question 5

Demonstrating the Public Health Importance of a given problem in a given area can help to..?

Answer 5

Secure funding and ‘buy-in’

Question 6

What is a Secular Trend?

Answer 6

Changes over a long period of time, generally years or decades

Question 7

What is Effectiveness?

Answer 7

Performance of an intervention under ‘real-world’ conditions

Question 8

What is Efficacy?

Answer 8

Performance of an intervention under ideal and controlled circumstances