HESI COMMUNITY HEALTH [2026] | COMPLETE ANSWER
GUIDE | UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS |
• What are the top 4 health risks for infants in order? -✓✓ANSWER: Suffocation,
MVA, Homicide, SIDS
• What is the significant cause of illness in infants and children? -✓✓ANSWER:
Infection
• What are the top health risks for children? -✓✓ANSWER: Obesity,
injuries/Accidents, Suicide, Acute and Chronic Illness
• Obesity -✓✓ANSWER: Obesity: healthy people objectives have addressed youth
fitness and obesity. Defined by BMI
Risk for childhood obesity were related to obesity in the parents
Higher in NA, Hispanic, and AA
Lower socioeconomic groups in urban settings have higher rates
• Injuries and Accidents -✓✓ANSWER: #1 cause from 1 to 24 years
• Health Risks for Toddlers -✓✓ANSWER: Large # falls, poisons, MVA
• Health Risks for School Age Children -✓✓ANSWER: lowest injury death rate, diff.
with judging speed and distance, placing at risk for pedestrian and bicycle
accidents
,• Health Risks for Adolescents -✓✓ANSWER: injury accounts for 75% of all deaths
and risk taking becomes more conscious at this time especially among males
• Suicide -✓✓ANSWER: 2nd leading cause of death among 15 to 24. 3rd leading
cause for 10 to 24.
• Health Risk: Acute Illness -✓✓ANSWER: also a significant cause of illness in
children
• Health Risk: Chronic Health Problems -✓✓ANSWER: improved medical
technology has increased the number of children surviving with chronic health
problems.
Examples: Down Syndrome, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, asthma, diabetes,
congenital heart disease, cancer, hemophilia, broncopulmonary dysplasia, and
AIDS
• What has been very successful in preventing selected immunizations? -
✓✓ANSWER: Routine immunizations
• What is essential for health growth and development and prevention of
disease? -✓✓ANSWER: Nutrition
• Health Risks in Women -✓✓ANSWER: Longer life expectancy than men
More likely to have acute and chronic conditions that require more services
, Women of color are more statistically more likely to have poor health outcomes
because of poor understanding of health, lack of access to health care, and
lifestyle practices.
• What are the top two causes of death in women -✓✓ANSWER: Heart then lung
• Health Risks in Men -✓✓ANSWER: Life expectancy of men in the US is one of the
lowest in the developed countries
Men engage in more risk-taking behaviors than women
Men tend to avoid diagnosis and treatment of illnesses that may result in serious
health problems
• What gender has shorter life span and higher infant mortality rate? -
✓✓ANSWER: Males
• Which gender has a longer life expectancy? Why? -✓✓ANSWER: Women,
because men tend to avoid diagnosis and treatment of illnesses that may result in
serious health problems
• Which gender has higher rates of acute and chronic problems? -✓✓ANSWER:
Women
• What population is steadily growing? Why is this a concern? -✓✓ANSWER:
Elderly, increase in chronic conditions, demand for services, and strained health
care budget
GUIDE | UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS |
• What are the top 4 health risks for infants in order? -✓✓ANSWER: Suffocation,
MVA, Homicide, SIDS
• What is the significant cause of illness in infants and children? -✓✓ANSWER:
Infection
• What are the top health risks for children? -✓✓ANSWER: Obesity,
injuries/Accidents, Suicide, Acute and Chronic Illness
• Obesity -✓✓ANSWER: Obesity: healthy people objectives have addressed youth
fitness and obesity. Defined by BMI
Risk for childhood obesity were related to obesity in the parents
Higher in NA, Hispanic, and AA
Lower socioeconomic groups in urban settings have higher rates
• Injuries and Accidents -✓✓ANSWER: #1 cause from 1 to 24 years
• Health Risks for Toddlers -✓✓ANSWER: Large # falls, poisons, MVA
• Health Risks for School Age Children -✓✓ANSWER: lowest injury death rate, diff.
with judging speed and distance, placing at risk for pedestrian and bicycle
accidents
,• Health Risks for Adolescents -✓✓ANSWER: injury accounts for 75% of all deaths
and risk taking becomes more conscious at this time especially among males
• Suicide -✓✓ANSWER: 2nd leading cause of death among 15 to 24. 3rd leading
cause for 10 to 24.
• Health Risk: Acute Illness -✓✓ANSWER: also a significant cause of illness in
children
• Health Risk: Chronic Health Problems -✓✓ANSWER: improved medical
technology has increased the number of children surviving with chronic health
problems.
Examples: Down Syndrome, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, asthma, diabetes,
congenital heart disease, cancer, hemophilia, broncopulmonary dysplasia, and
AIDS
• What has been very successful in preventing selected immunizations? -
✓✓ANSWER: Routine immunizations
• What is essential for health growth and development and prevention of
disease? -✓✓ANSWER: Nutrition
• Health Risks in Women -✓✓ANSWER: Longer life expectancy than men
More likely to have acute and chronic conditions that require more services
, Women of color are more statistically more likely to have poor health outcomes
because of poor understanding of health, lack of access to health care, and
lifestyle practices.
• What are the top two causes of death in women -✓✓ANSWER: Heart then lung
• Health Risks in Men -✓✓ANSWER: Life expectancy of men in the US is one of the
lowest in the developed countries
Men engage in more risk-taking behaviors than women
Men tend to avoid diagnosis and treatment of illnesses that may result in serious
health problems
• What gender has shorter life span and higher infant mortality rate? -
✓✓ANSWER: Males
• Which gender has a longer life expectancy? Why? -✓✓ANSWER: Women,
because men tend to avoid diagnosis and treatment of illnesses that may result in
serious health problems
• Which gender has higher rates of acute and chronic problems? -✓✓ANSWER:
Women
• What population is steadily growing? Why is this a concern? -✓✓ANSWER:
Elderly, increase in chronic conditions, demand for services, and strained health
care budget
