TEST BANK
HEALTH PROMOTION THROUGHOUT THE
LIFE SPAN, 11TH EDITION (EDELMAN, 2026),
CHAPTER 1-25 | ALL CHAPTERS
,Table Of Contents
Unit 1 Foundations For Health Promotion
1. Health Defined: Health Promotion, Protection, And Prevention
2. Communities At Risk And Health
3. Health Policy And The Delivery System
4. The Therapeutic Relationship
5. Ethical Issues Related To Health Promotion
Unit 2 Assessment For Health Promotion
6. Health Promotion And The Individual
7. Health Promotion And The Family
8. Health Promotion And The Community
Unit 3 Interventions For Health Promotion
9. Screening And Health Promotion
10. Health Education
11. Nutrition Counseling For Health Promotion
12. Physical Activity
13. Stress Management
14. Complementary, Integrative, And Alternative Strategies
Unit 4 Application Of Health Promotion
15. Overview Of Growth And Development Framework
16. The Childbearing Period
17. Infant
18. Toddler
19. Preschool Child
20. School-Age Child
21. Adolescent
22. Young Adult
23. Middle-Age Adult
24. Older Adult
Unit 5 Emerging Global Health Issues
25. Health Promotion For The 21st Century: Throughout The Life Span And
Throughout The World
,Chapter 01: health defined: objectives for promotion and
prevention edelman: health promotion throughout the life
span,11th edition
Multiple choice
1. Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive health care?
a. Clinical model
b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model
Ans: a
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as indicative of health.
People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
Dif: cognitive level: remember (knowledge) ref: p. 3
2. A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider as well as
receives acupuncture. Which model of health does this person likely favor?
a. Clinical model
b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model
Ans: d
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating meaning
in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be enough for someone who believes in the
eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often look for alternative providers
of care.
Dif: cognitive level: apply (application) ref: p. 3
3. A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s
potential and is experienced within a developmental context is known as:
a. Growth and development.
b. Health.
c. Functioning.
d. High-level wellness.
Ans: b
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s
potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
Dif: cognitive level: remember (knowledge) ref: p. 5
4. Which of the following best describes a client who has an illness?
a. Someone who has well-controlled diabetes
b. Someone with hypercholesterolemia
c. Someone with a headache
d. Someone with coronary artery disease
without angina Ans: c
, Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective
experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a response
characterized by a mismatch between a person’s needs and the resources available to meet those needs.
A person can have a disease without feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.
Dif: cognitive level: analyze (analysis) ref: p. 6
5. Which us report is considered a landmark document in creating a global approach to health?
a. The 1990 health objectives for the nation: a midcourse review
b. Healthy people 2020
c. Healthy people 2000
d. The u.s. Surgeon general report
Ans: c
Healthy people 2000 and its midcourse review and 1995 revisions were landmark documents in which a
consortium of people representing national organizations worked with us public health service officials
to create a more global approach to health.
Dif: cognitive level: remember (knowledge) ref: p. 6
6. Which of the following represents a method of primary prevention?
a. Informational session about healthy lifestyles
b. Blood pressure screening
c. Interventional cardiac catheterization
d. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
Ans: a
Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and specific protection
and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about healthy lifestyles fits this definition. Blood
pressure screening does not prevent disease, but instead identifies it.
Dif: cognitive level: apply (application) ref: p. 11
7. Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
a. Self–breast examination education
b. Yearly mammograms
c. Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
d. Complete mastectomy for breast cancer
Ans: b
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to identify individuals in
an early, detectable stage of the disease process. A mammogram is a screening tool for breast cancer
and thus is considered a method of secondary prevention.
Dif: cognitive level: apply (application) ref: p. 15
8. Which of the following represents a method of tertiary prevention?
a. Drunk driving campaign
b. Road blocks for drunk driving
c. Emergency surgery for head trauma after a motor vehicle accident
d. Physical and occupational therapy after a motor vehicle accident with
head trauma Ans: d
HEALTH PROMOTION THROUGHOUT THE
LIFE SPAN, 11TH EDITION (EDELMAN, 2026),
CHAPTER 1-25 | ALL CHAPTERS
,Table Of Contents
Unit 1 Foundations For Health Promotion
1. Health Defined: Health Promotion, Protection, And Prevention
2. Communities At Risk And Health
3. Health Policy And The Delivery System
4. The Therapeutic Relationship
5. Ethical Issues Related To Health Promotion
Unit 2 Assessment For Health Promotion
6. Health Promotion And The Individual
7. Health Promotion And The Family
8. Health Promotion And The Community
Unit 3 Interventions For Health Promotion
9. Screening And Health Promotion
10. Health Education
11. Nutrition Counseling For Health Promotion
12. Physical Activity
13. Stress Management
14. Complementary, Integrative, And Alternative Strategies
Unit 4 Application Of Health Promotion
15. Overview Of Growth And Development Framework
16. The Childbearing Period
17. Infant
18. Toddler
19. Preschool Child
20. School-Age Child
21. Adolescent
22. Young Adult
23. Middle-Age Adult
24. Older Adult
Unit 5 Emerging Global Health Issues
25. Health Promotion For The 21st Century: Throughout The Life Span And
Throughout The World
,Chapter 01: health defined: objectives for promotion and
prevention edelman: health promotion throughout the life
span,11th edition
Multiple choice
1. Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive health care?
a. Clinical model
b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model
Ans: a
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as indicative of health.
People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
Dif: cognitive level: remember (knowledge) ref: p. 3
2. A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider as well as
receives acupuncture. Which model of health does this person likely favor?
a. Clinical model
b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model
Ans: d
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating meaning
in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be enough for someone who believes in the
eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often look for alternative providers
of care.
Dif: cognitive level: apply (application) ref: p. 3
3. A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s
potential and is experienced within a developmental context is known as:
a. Growth and development.
b. Health.
c. Functioning.
d. High-level wellness.
Ans: b
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person’s
potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
Dif: cognitive level: remember (knowledge) ref: p. 5
4. Which of the following best describes a client who has an illness?
a. Someone who has well-controlled diabetes
b. Someone with hypercholesterolemia
c. Someone with a headache
d. Someone with coronary artery disease
without angina Ans: c
, Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective
experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a response
characterized by a mismatch between a person’s needs and the resources available to meet those needs.
A person can have a disease without feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.
Dif: cognitive level: analyze (analysis) ref: p. 6
5. Which us report is considered a landmark document in creating a global approach to health?
a. The 1990 health objectives for the nation: a midcourse review
b. Healthy people 2020
c. Healthy people 2000
d. The u.s. Surgeon general report
Ans: c
Healthy people 2000 and its midcourse review and 1995 revisions were landmark documents in which a
consortium of people representing national organizations worked with us public health service officials
to create a more global approach to health.
Dif: cognitive level: remember (knowledge) ref: p. 6
6. Which of the following represents a method of primary prevention?
a. Informational session about healthy lifestyles
b. Blood pressure screening
c. Interventional cardiac catheterization
d. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
Ans: a
Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and specific protection
and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about healthy lifestyles fits this definition. Blood
pressure screening does not prevent disease, but instead identifies it.
Dif: cognitive level: apply (application) ref: p. 11
7. Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
a. Self–breast examination education
b. Yearly mammograms
c. Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
d. Complete mastectomy for breast cancer
Ans: b
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to identify individuals in
an early, detectable stage of the disease process. A mammogram is a screening tool for breast cancer
and thus is considered a method of secondary prevention.
Dif: cognitive level: apply (application) ref: p. 15
8. Which of the following represents a method of tertiary prevention?
a. Drunk driving campaign
b. Road blocks for drunk driving
c. Emergency surgery for head trauma after a motor vehicle accident
d. Physical and occupational therapy after a motor vehicle accident with
head trauma Ans: d
