PBH 101 EXAM 3 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. health disparities
Answer:
Preventable differences in health outcomes related to health disadvantages linked to social economic and
environmental factors
Question:
2. social justice
Answer:
view that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social rights + opportunities
Question:
3. redlining
Answer:
A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property
within the boundaries.
Question:
4. Stressful job
Answer:
job insecurity high demand low control long hours work load lack of support/toxic env.
Question:
5. Links between socioeconomic status and health
Answer:
-access to healthy food
-physical activity
-healthcare access
-education + health literacy
-social support
Question:
6. Epidemiologic transition
Answer:
Decline in infectious disease deaths and rise in non-communicable (chronic) disease deaths
Question:
7. 3 ages of epidemiologic transition
Answer:
1) pestilence and famine
2) receding pandemics
3) manmade & degenerative disease
, Question:
8. Top 3 leading causes of death 1900's vs now
Answer:
1900: pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea and enteritis 2000: heart disease, cancer, stroke
Question:
9. compression of morbidity
Answer:
Ideal of living a long healthy life and shortening the time spent in decline before death
Question:
10. Atherosclerosis
Answer:
condition in which fatty deposits called plaque build up on the inner walls of the arteries risk factor for
heart disease
Question:
11. hypertension
Answer:
abnormally high blood pressure
Question:
12. Ischemic stroke
Answer:
a type of stroke that occurs when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked
Question:
13. Hemorrhagic stroke
Answer:
occurs when a blood vessel (aneurism) in the brain leaks or ruptures; also known as a bleed
Question:
14. Cancer deaths and cases in men
Answer:
deaths: lung and bronchus cases: prostate
Question:
15. cancer deaths and cases in women
Answer:
deaths: lung and bronchus cases: breast cancer
Question:
16. key risk factor for prostate cancer
Answer:
old age
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. health disparities
Answer:
Preventable differences in health outcomes related to health disadvantages linked to social economic and
environmental factors
Question:
2. social justice
Answer:
view that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social rights + opportunities
Question:
3. redlining
Answer:
A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property
within the boundaries.
Question:
4. Stressful job
Answer:
job insecurity high demand low control long hours work load lack of support/toxic env.
Question:
5. Links between socioeconomic status and health
Answer:
-access to healthy food
-physical activity
-healthcare access
-education + health literacy
-social support
Question:
6. Epidemiologic transition
Answer:
Decline in infectious disease deaths and rise in non-communicable (chronic) disease deaths
Question:
7. 3 ages of epidemiologic transition
Answer:
1) pestilence and famine
2) receding pandemics
3) manmade & degenerative disease
, Question:
8. Top 3 leading causes of death 1900's vs now
Answer:
1900: pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea and enteritis 2000: heart disease, cancer, stroke
Question:
9. compression of morbidity
Answer:
Ideal of living a long healthy life and shortening the time spent in decline before death
Question:
10. Atherosclerosis
Answer:
condition in which fatty deposits called plaque build up on the inner walls of the arteries risk factor for
heart disease
Question:
11. hypertension
Answer:
abnormally high blood pressure
Question:
12. Ischemic stroke
Answer:
a type of stroke that occurs when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked
Question:
13. Hemorrhagic stroke
Answer:
occurs when a blood vessel (aneurism) in the brain leaks or ruptures; also known as a bleed
Question:
14. Cancer deaths and cases in men
Answer:
deaths: lung and bronchus cases: prostate
Question:
15. cancer deaths and cases in women
Answer:
deaths: lung and bronchus cases: breast cancer
Question:
16. key risk factor for prostate cancer
Answer:
old age
