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Chapter: Chapter 01 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. Of the major factors affecting health outcomes, which is the largest individual contributing factor?
A) Healthcare
B) Genetics and health
C) Individual behavior
D) Social and environmental factors
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Major Factors Affecting Health Outcomes
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
2. Which of the following is not a use of health communication?
A) Inform policies and regulations contributing to social determinants
B) Educate, motivate, and persuade individuals to choose healthier behaviors
C) Work with healthcare providers to be better communicators
D) Personal training fitness texts
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: How to Change This Picture
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
3. What is one model that looks at both the individual, the social network, and community/population level
to create positive health outcomes?
A) People fields of influence
B) Place fields of influence
C) Ecological model
D) The people and places framework
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: How to Change This Picture
Subject: Chapter 1
,Title: Your World, Your Health
4. What approximate proportion of premature deaths are attributed to healthcare?
A) 35%
B) 40%
C) 20%
D) 10%
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Major Factors Affecting Health Outcomes
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
5. What is the biological expression of genes inherited from one’s parents called?
A) Gender
B) Transgender
C) Intersex
D) Sex
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Socially Defined You
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
True/False
1. True or False? The basic idea in using an ecological model is to look at the inner layers of a problem
and work on solutions to those first.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: How to Change This Picture
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
2. True or False? Many social scientists believe that race is not based in biology but instead is
constructed by society.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Socially Defined You
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
3. True or False? Diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, are the greatest cause of death among
young adults.
,Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Socially Defined You
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
Short Answer
1. __________ is a technique that can be used to eliminate mistakes in drug delivery within healthcare
settings.
Ans: Root cause analysis
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: How to Change This Picture
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
Matching
1. Match the following terms with their definitions.
1. The study of genetic variation
Ans: Genomics
2. Genetic expression of the genes inherited from one’s parents
Ans: Sex
3. A social or cultural concept that reflects how men and women, boys and girls, are meant to look and
behave
Ans: Gender
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Socially Defined You
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
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Chapter: Chapter 02 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. What is an example of communication?
A) Talking
B) Gestures
C) Body language
D) All of these are correct.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
2. Which of the following does not influence our perceptions?
A) Internal attitudes
B) Motives
C) Experiences
D) Cosmic energy
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
3. What is it called when the brain deals with overload by simplifying and linking new information to what
we already know?
A) Selective perception
B) Heuristics
C) Schema
D) Availability
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
,Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
4. Any individual diagnosed with cancer, picking up an educational pamphlet at the doctor’s office is an
example of what?
A) Elaboration likelihood model
B) Availability
C) Experiences
D) Selective perception
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
5. Which characteristic of a hazard leads individuals to tend to overestimate their risk?
A) Controlled
B) Trusted
C) Childhood impact
D) Natural
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communicating About Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
6. Which of the following is not a component of successful communication?
A) Showing clear lines of cause and effect
B) Grabbing attention
C) Being extremely descriptive
D) Taking advantage of decision rules and heuristics
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
7. What are four levels on which health communication functions?
A) Individual, group, community, society
B) Individual, societal, familial, community
C) Group, community, nationally, internationally
D) Continental, nationally, community, group
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Communicating About Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
,8. Which of the following is not one of Hill’s Criteria?
A) Coherence
B) Acceptability
C) Experimental evidence
D) Biological plausibility
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Communicating About Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
9. Which of the following is not a challenge of health communication?
A) Multitudes of information sources
B) Culture and belief systems
C) Individual processing time
D) What type of communication method to use
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communicating About Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
True/False
1. True or False? Contrast effect is when we attribute our own characteristics to others.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
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Chapter: Chapter 03 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is the definition of a naturalistic disease theory?
A) Illness is due to the purposeful intervention of a supernatural being, a non-human being, or a person
who has supernatural powers.
B) A person’s health is closely connected to the environment with natural conditions or biological
materials impacting a person’s health.
C) A person’s health is determined by what that person decides it to be based on their assumed
symptoms.
D) Illness is due to an individual’s experiences interacting with healthcare professionals and their
professional opinions.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Determinants of Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
2. What is the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test for?
A) Determining the “reading grade level” of a text
B) Determining how useful a document is
C) Making numbers clear
D) Ensuring the reader will actually read a hand out
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Developing and Assessing Materials
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
3. Which of the following is a negative effect of poor health literacy?
A) Being less likely to immunize oneself
B) Participating in preventative healthcare
C) Having trouble accessing health insurance
D) Spend two days longer in the hospital
Ans: B
,Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Health Literacy Basics
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
4. “A person’s health is closely connected to the environment with natural conditions or biologic materials
impacting a person’s health; disease occurs impersonally” is a definition of which of the following:
A) Literacy
B) Numeracy
C) Personalistic disease theory
D) Naturalistic disease theory
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Determinants of Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
5. Which of the following is a word recognition test of 66 medial words?
A) Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA)
B) The eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS)
C) Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM)
D) Newest Vital Signs (NVS)
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Tools to Enhance Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
6. Which of the following was created by Boston University to share tools for health literacy?
A) Health Literacy Tool Shed
B) Health Literacy Kit
C) Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
D) Teach Back
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Tools to Enhance Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
7. Which of the following is not identified as “clear and effective” written material by the Center for
Medicare and Medicaid Services?
A) Attract the reader’s attention
B) Make the reader feel respected and understood
C) Moving the reader to action
D) Tell them how to handle their health care
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Tools to Enhance Health Literacy
, Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
True/False
1. True or False? The SMOG provides an estimate of the number of college degrees needed to
understand prose material.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Developing and Assessing Materials
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
Short Answer
1. The measure of a person’s computation skills is known as __________.
Ans: numeracy
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introduction
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
Essay
1. A number of tools have been developed to measure health literacy. Name and describe the purpose of
two of those tools.
Ans: 1. REALM- word recognition test consisting of 66 medical words. 2. TOFHLA- provides a detailed
evaluation of health literacy for research purposes. 3. NVS- involves an ice cream level challenge. 4.
eHEALS- assesses knowledge, skills, and perceived comfort in applying health information to health
problems. 5. NUMi- measures the quantitative challenges a patient may face in health care. 6. HLSI-
measures print literacy and numeracy, oral skills, and internet-based information-seeking skills.
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Tools to Enhance Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
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Chapter: Chapter 01 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. Of the major factors affecting health outcomes, which is the largest individual contributing factor?
A) Healthcare
B) Genetics and health
C) Individual behavior
D) Social and environmental factors
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Major Factors Affecting Health Outcomes
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
2. Which of the following is not a use of health communication?
A) Inform policies and regulations contributing to social determinants
B) Educate, motivate, and persuade individuals to choose healthier behaviors
C) Work with healthcare providers to be better communicators
D) Personal training fitness texts
Ans: D
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: How to Change This Picture
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
3. What is one model that looks at both the individual, the social network, and community/population level
to create positive health outcomes?
A) People fields of influence
B) Place fields of influence
C) Ecological model
D) The people and places framework
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: How to Change This Picture
Subject: Chapter 1
,Title: Your World, Your Health
4. What approximate proportion of premature deaths are attributed to healthcare?
A) 35%
B) 40%
C) 20%
D) 10%
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Major Factors Affecting Health Outcomes
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
5. What is the biological expression of genes inherited from one’s parents called?
A) Gender
B) Transgender
C) Intersex
D) Sex
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Socially Defined You
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
True/False
1. True or False? The basic idea in using an ecological model is to look at the inner layers of a problem
and work on solutions to those first.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: How to Change This Picture
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
2. True or False? Many social scientists believe that race is not based in biology but instead is
constructed by society.
Ans: True
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Socially Defined You
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
3. True or False? Diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, are the greatest cause of death among
young adults.
,Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Socially Defined You
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
Short Answer
1. __________ is a technique that can be used to eliminate mistakes in drug delivery within healthcare
settings.
Ans: Root cause analysis
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: How to Change This Picture
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
Matching
1. Match the following terms with their definitions.
1. The study of genetic variation
Ans: Genomics
2. Genetic expression of the genes inherited from one’s parents
Ans: Sex
3. A social or cultural concept that reflects how men and women, boys and girls, are meant to look and
behave
Ans: Gender
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Socially Defined You
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: Your World, Your Health
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Chapter: Chapter 02 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. What is an example of communication?
A) Talking
B) Gestures
C) Body language
D) All of these are correct.
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
2. Which of the following does not influence our perceptions?
A) Internal attitudes
B) Motives
C) Experiences
D) Cosmic energy
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
3. What is it called when the brain deals with overload by simplifying and linking new information to what
we already know?
A) Selective perception
B) Heuristics
C) Schema
D) Availability
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
,Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
4. Any individual diagnosed with cancer, picking up an educational pamphlet at the doctor’s office is an
example of what?
A) Elaboration likelihood model
B) Availability
C) Experiences
D) Selective perception
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
5. Which characteristic of a hazard leads individuals to tend to overestimate their risk?
A) Controlled
B) Trusted
C) Childhood impact
D) Natural
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communicating About Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
6. Which of the following is not a component of successful communication?
A) Showing clear lines of cause and effect
B) Grabbing attention
C) Being extremely descriptive
D) Taking advantage of decision rules and heuristics
Ans: C
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
7. What are four levels on which health communication functions?
A) Individual, group, community, society
B) Individual, societal, familial, community
C) Group, community, nationally, internationally
D) Continental, nationally, community, group
Ans: A
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Communicating About Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
,8. Which of the following is not one of Hill’s Criteria?
A) Coherence
B) Acceptability
C) Experimental evidence
D) Biological plausibility
Ans: B
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Communicating About Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
9. Which of the following is not a challenge of health communication?
A) Multitudes of information sources
B) Culture and belief systems
C) Individual processing time
D) What type of communication method to use
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communicating About Health
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
True/False
1. True or False? Contrast effect is when we attribute our own characteristics to others.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Communication
Subject: Chapter 2
Title: Communication 101: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
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Chapter: Chapter 03 - Quiz
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is the definition of a naturalistic disease theory?
A) Illness is due to the purposeful intervention of a supernatural being, a non-human being, or a person
who has supernatural powers.
B) A person’s health is closely connected to the environment with natural conditions or biological
materials impacting a person’s health.
C) A person’s health is determined by what that person decides it to be based on their assumed
symptoms.
D) Illness is due to an individual’s experiences interacting with healthcare professionals and their
professional opinions.
Ans: B
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Determinants of Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
2. What is the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test for?
A) Determining the “reading grade level” of a text
B) Determining how useful a document is
C) Making numbers clear
D) Ensuring the reader will actually read a hand out
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Developing and Assessing Materials
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
3. Which of the following is a negative effect of poor health literacy?
A) Being less likely to immunize oneself
B) Participating in preventative healthcare
C) Having trouble accessing health insurance
D) Spend two days longer in the hospital
Ans: B
,Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Health Literacy Basics
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
4. “A person’s health is closely connected to the environment with natural conditions or biologic materials
impacting a person’s health; disease occurs impersonally” is a definition of which of the following:
A) Literacy
B) Numeracy
C) Personalistic disease theory
D) Naturalistic disease theory
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Determinants of Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
5. Which of the following is a word recognition test of 66 medial words?
A) Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA)
B) The eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS)
C) Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM)
D) Newest Vital Signs (NVS)
Ans: C
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Tools to Enhance Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
6. Which of the following was created by Boston University to share tools for health literacy?
A) Health Literacy Tool Shed
B) Health Literacy Kit
C) Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
D) Teach Back
Ans: A
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Tools to Enhance Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
7. Which of the following is not identified as “clear and effective” written material by the Center for
Medicare and Medicaid Services?
A) Attract the reader’s attention
B) Make the reader feel respected and understood
C) Moving the reader to action
D) Tell them how to handle their health care
Ans: D
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Tools to Enhance Health Literacy
, Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
True/False
1. True or False? The SMOG provides an estimate of the number of college degrees needed to
understand prose material.
Ans: False
Complexity: Easy
Ahead: Developing and Assessing Materials
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
Short Answer
1. The measure of a person’s computation skills is known as __________.
Ans: numeracy
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Introduction
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
Essay
1. A number of tools have been developed to measure health literacy. Name and describe the purpose of
two of those tools.
Ans: 1. REALM- word recognition test consisting of 66 medical words. 2. TOFHLA- provides a detailed
evaluation of health literacy for research purposes. 3. NVS- involves an ice cream level challenge. 4.
eHEALS- assesses knowledge, skills, and perceived comfort in applying health information to health
problems. 5. NUMi- measures the quantitative challenges a patient may face in health care. 6. HLSI-
measures print literacy and numeracy, oral skills, and internet-based information-seeking skills.
Complexity: Moderate
Ahead: Tools to Enhance Health Literacy
Subject: Chapter 3
Title: Getting It Right: Words, Numbers, and Meaning
