OSU HTHRHSC 3400 TEST 3 | COMPREHENSIVE PRACTICE QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS | STUDY GUIDE 2026
Health Promotion 5 Key Action areas - correct answer ✔✔1. Building healthy Public Policy
2. Creating Supportive Environments
3. Strengthening Communities
4. Developing Personal Skills
5. Reorienting Health Services
goals of reorientation - correct answer ✔✔1. Better Balance between Prevention and Treatment
2. Population Health Outcomes
3. Better Population Health
4. Cost Effective Services
5. Optimize use of entire healthcare workforce
6. Opportunistic Health Promotion
Primary Healthcare Principles - correct answer ✔✔1. Holistic Collaboration
2. Multiple Determinants
3. Community and Individual Involvement
4. Affordable, Accessible, and Acceptable- Seeing different cultures and religions
5. Material Resources and Power
6. Addresses Inequities
Theories - correct answer ✔✔Systematic way of understanding/ explaining phenomena or
events
, Models - correct answer ✔✔Visual, Symbolic or Verbal Representation of Theories
(Often used to verify theories)
Why use theories and models - correct answer ✔✔1. Explain Behavior
2. Predict Behavior
3. Basis of behavior change- framework
4. Measure Outcomes- Better health that can be measured
5. Testable
Models of Behavior - correct answer ✔✔1. Individuals (independent of other things)
2. Interpersonal (Environment and others who are around them)
3. Groups (Schools, Communities, etc)
4. Ecological (not looking at one particular methodology)
Health Belief Model Background - correct answer ✔✔Creator- Rosenstock, Hochbaum, and
Kegels
It is considered a psychological model
Assumption: People fearing disease
Value Expectancy Theory - correct answer ✔✔Value- Desire to avoid illness, get well, be well,
maintain health
Expectation- Belief that a specific health action would prevent illness and improve health
HBM Basis - correct answer ✔✔1. Framework for motivating people to take positive health
action (Start something like exercise or cut back on smoking)
2. Prime motivation: the desire to avoid negative health consequences
Key variables:
ANSWERS | STUDY GUIDE 2026
Health Promotion 5 Key Action areas - correct answer ✔✔1. Building healthy Public Policy
2. Creating Supportive Environments
3. Strengthening Communities
4. Developing Personal Skills
5. Reorienting Health Services
goals of reorientation - correct answer ✔✔1. Better Balance between Prevention and Treatment
2. Population Health Outcomes
3. Better Population Health
4. Cost Effective Services
5. Optimize use of entire healthcare workforce
6. Opportunistic Health Promotion
Primary Healthcare Principles - correct answer ✔✔1. Holistic Collaboration
2. Multiple Determinants
3. Community and Individual Involvement
4. Affordable, Accessible, and Acceptable- Seeing different cultures and religions
5. Material Resources and Power
6. Addresses Inequities
Theories - correct answer ✔✔Systematic way of understanding/ explaining phenomena or
events
, Models - correct answer ✔✔Visual, Symbolic or Verbal Representation of Theories
(Often used to verify theories)
Why use theories and models - correct answer ✔✔1. Explain Behavior
2. Predict Behavior
3. Basis of behavior change- framework
4. Measure Outcomes- Better health that can be measured
5. Testable
Models of Behavior - correct answer ✔✔1. Individuals (independent of other things)
2. Interpersonal (Environment and others who are around them)
3. Groups (Schools, Communities, etc)
4. Ecological (not looking at one particular methodology)
Health Belief Model Background - correct answer ✔✔Creator- Rosenstock, Hochbaum, and
Kegels
It is considered a psychological model
Assumption: People fearing disease
Value Expectancy Theory - correct answer ✔✔Value- Desire to avoid illness, get well, be well,
maintain health
Expectation- Belief that a specific health action would prevent illness and improve health
HBM Basis - correct answer ✔✔1. Framework for motivating people to take positive health
action (Start something like exercise or cut back on smoking)
2. Prime motivation: the desire to avoid negative health consequences
Key variables:
