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This Updated/Latest 2025–2026 test bank for Growth and Development Across the Lifespan, 2nd Edition by Gloria Leifer is a comprehensive educational resource designed to help nursing and health science students understand the full spectrum of human growth, development, and behavioral changes from infancy through older adulthood. Covering all chapters, this resource includes detailed chapter-by-chapter practice questions, answer rationales, case-based learning scenarios, and NCLEX-style review items that strengthen critical thinking and clinical judgment in developmental nursing care. Topics include principles of human development, genetic and environmental influences, prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, school-age development, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and older adulthood. It also covers cognitive, emotional, social, and physical developmental milestones, developmental delays, family dynamics, cultural influences, health promotion across the lifespan, and age-related health risks. This study resource supports academic learning, clinical preparation, and professional nursing development while enhancing the ability to provide age-appropriate, patient-centered care throughout 2025–2026.

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,Chapter 1: Healthy People 2020
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Test Bank
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1. The purpose of Healthy People 2020 is to:
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Healthy People 2020 is an evidence-based 10-year report card describing health-care
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accomplishments in the United States between the years of 2010 and 2020.
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2. A health-care worker planning a research project related to teenage pregnancy in his
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community would include in the initial assessment the health status of the target population.
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morbidity, and life expectancy.
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d. health insurance coverage, death rate, and access to health care. L
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Birth rate statistics identify age of mother; death rates include infant mortality and age of
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mother; access to health care may affect a teenager’s ability to obtain adequate prenatal
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care.
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which is directed toward the reduction of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) by: a.
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positioning the baby on a small flat pillow. TT L TT L TT L L
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d. tucking infant snuggly in the crib with a light blanket. TT L TT L TT L TT L L
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The back to sleep program helps reduce the incidence of SIDS by placing the infant on its
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back rather than on its stomach.
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4. Healthy People 2020 endorses the completion of a high school education primarily to enable
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a person to:
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One of the goals of Healthy People 2020 is to increase the number of persons graduating
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from high school so that they have a better education basis on which to make healthy
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lifestyle choices.
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TOP: Health indicators KEY: Nursing Process Step: NA MSC: NCLEX:
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5. Healthy People 2020 is published by the: TT L TT L TT L TT L L
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d. Department of Health and Human Services. L
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Healthy People 2020 is published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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6. Infant mortality rates are based on infant deaths that occur:
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c. from infection and congenital disorders, per 1000 live births. TT L TT L TT L TT L TT L TT L L
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Infant mortality is reported on deaths occurring before the age of 1 year per 1000 live
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births.
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7. Although the life expectancy has increased, Healthy People 2020 will focus on the older
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d. maintenance of independent lifestyles. L
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, The maintenance of independent lifestyles is an ongoing problem for the older adult.
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an understanding of the health status of the population. Morbidity and mortality
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statistics can identify risks for disease or health hazard by age group.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified congenital abnormalities as
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a leading cause of death for children under the age of 1 year.
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10. The health-care worker advises a young woman who is 7 weeks pregnant to include folic
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acid supplements in her diet in order to:
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One of the goals of Healthy People 2020 is to promote use of folic acid supplements early
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in pregnancy. Ideally, folic acid supplements, or adequate dietary folic acid, should be
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recommended early in the pregnancy to help prevent congenital malformations, especially
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spina bifida.
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