NRS 213 Lecture 1: wk1 objective ans.docx
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Self limited or specific therapy available: technological intervention usually effective (lab testing, imaging, medication, surgery, cure likely with return to normal health, minimal uncertainly. Professionals knowledgeable, client inexperienced: unfolds over time, undulating, multivariate causation, changing course over time, diagnosis may be uncertain; prognosis obscure, gradual onset, treatments achieve no definitive results, and therapies have associated adversities, technological intervention may or may not be helpful, no cure, management over time necessary, uncertainty pervasive. Insufficient physical activity: tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, raised blood pressure, overweight and obesity, raised cholesterol, cancer associated infections, lower social position (health determinants) Protecting people from tobacco smoke and banning smoking in public places: warning about the dangers of tobacco use, enforcing bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, raising taxes on tobacco, restricting access to retailed alcohol, enforcing bans on alcohol advertising, raising taxes on alcohol, reduce salt intake and salt content of food, replacing trans fat in food with polyunsaturated fat;
