HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

DEFINITION OF HEALTH

• “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity”. – World Health Organisation.

Definition of Health Intervention 

• any attempt to intervene or interrupt the usual sequence in the development of disease in man

Multiple Choice

The definition of Health was given by

• UNESCO

• UNHCR

• INDIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATION

• WHO

Multiple Choice

Health Intervention can be defined as any attempt to intervene or interrupt the usual sequence in the development of disease in man

• False

• True

Five models of intervention in the field of Health

• Health Promotion

• Specific Protection

• Early Diagnosis & Treatment

• Disability Limitations

• Rehabilitation

Multiple Choice

Health Protection is one of the five models of Health Intervention

• False

• True

Health Promotion

• “it is the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve health”

a. Health Education

• this is one of the most cost effective intervention

• A large number of diseases could be prevented with little or no medical intervention if people were adequately informed about diseases

• The target for educational efforts may include the general public, patients, priority groups, health providers, community leaders and decision makers.

  
  

Multiple Choice

Health education is cost effective

• False

• True

b. Environmental Modification

• A comprehensive approach to health promotion requires environmental modifications such as provision of safe water, installation of sanitary latrines, control of insects and rodents, improvement of housing, etc.

• Environmental modification are non-clinical and do not involve the physician.

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Multiple Choice

A physician is greatly required in the Environmental Modification intervention

• False

• True

c. Nutritional Intervention

• These comprises of food distribution and nutritional improvement of vulnerable groups, child feeding programmes, nutrition education, etc.

  
  

Multiple Choice

Child feeding programme is part of nutritional intervention

• False

• True