Neinstein’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care
NURS 111 ADOLESCEENT AND YOUNG ADULT HEALTH CARE PRACTICAL GUIDE
7TH EDITION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |GRADE A+
QUESTION: Why are the years 10-64 considered the most productive years of one's lifetime?
✓✓Correct Answer: Many people
-complete their formal education
-meet lifelong partners, become parents
-raise a family, find and develop their vocation
-earn their greatest amount of wealthy engagement in the community
-travel
- become aunts, grandparents, etc
QUESTION: What physiological and psychological changes occur during the stage of childhood to
adulthood? ✓✓Correct Answer: Hormonal changes, physical maturation, and opportunities to
engage in risk behavior
QUESTION: what is meant by life course approach? ✓✓Correct Answer: Health status and
environmental exposures in the early part of one's life that will impact their adult health status to
understand health and disease.
QUESTION: what percentage of the US population fall into this age group? What are the
demographics for this age group? ✓✓Correct Answer: ages 10-24
1/5 of the population and 54% of adolescents were non-hispanic white
QUESTION: what are the living arrangements for the age group? ✓✓Correct Answer: more than 25%
of children lived in one family houses
55% of black children and 31% of hispanic children were more likely to live in single parent homes
than white children (21%)
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,QUESTION: What is the significant change in labor force participation for the 16-19 year old age
group? How does employment break down demographically? ✓✓Correct Answer: Participation of
women increases and there is an increased attendance and enrollment in school
ages 16-24 make up 13% of the labor force
Disparities can be by race and ethnicity. If you are not working, your access to healthcare decreases
QUESTION: How does this affect healthcare? ✓✓Correct Answer: Young adults have less access to
health and tend to use emergency rooms for care more than core adolescents.
QUESTION: why had mortality decrease for this group since the 1950s? ✓✓Correct Answer:
Mortality decrease nearly 50% since the 50s because of advances in medicine and injury, disease
prevention, and behavior changes.
QUESTION: who had the highest mortality rates in this group? Why? ✓✓Correct Answer:
adolescents and young adult males because of unintentional injuries, behavior, and their
environment.
QUESTION: what group has the highest mortality rate in relation to motor vehicle accidents? why?
✓✓Correct Answer: 15-25 year olds because of alcohol consumption
QUESTION: what mortality rate has shown to be alarming? ✓✓Correct Answer: suicide
QUESTION: which group has the highest homicide rate? ✓✓Correct Answer: Black males as their
rates are 4 times higher than hispanic males
QUESTION: Why is it important for community and public health workers to be aware of the the
significant health problems of the various age groups in the United States? ✓✓Correct Answer: they
can detect the sources of diseases, injury, or death for specific priority populations and to propose
programs to reduce those sources
QUESTION: What ages are included in the following two age groups: adolescents and young adults
and adults? What are the ages of the two subgroups of adults? ✓✓Correct Answer: adolescents and
young adults: 15 - 24
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,adults: 25-24 and 45-64
QUESTION: why are the number of adolescents and young adults, living arrangements, and
employment status such key demographic characteristics of young people in regard to community
health? ✓✓Correct Answer: Living arrangements: due to an increasing divorce rate, the number of
children and adolescents living in a single parent household has increased in the past few decades
Employee status: employment is directly related to health insurance and health care
QUESTION: What are the leading causes of death for adolescents, young adults, and adults?
✓✓Correct Answer: unintentional injuries
QUESTION: What are the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System, and what type of data do they generate? ✓✓Correct Answer: used to track
health behaviors of students in grade 9-12 from public and private schools
QUESTION: What are the behaviors that put each of these cohorts-- adolescents, college students,
and adults-- at greatest risk and how does a person's environment impact these behaviors?
✓✓Correct Answer: adolescents: tobacco use
college students: alcohol
Adults: chronic disease
QUESTION: How would you summarize the health profile of the two cohorts presented in this
chapter? ✓✓Correct Answer: Adolescents/ young adults: characteristics by mortality and morbidity
from specific diseases, health behaviors, and life choices
Adults: Health profile of this groups is characterized by mortality from chronic diseases stemming
from poor lifestyle choices and health behaviors during the earlier stages of life
QUESTION: communicable diseases ✓✓Correct Answer: -measles
-STDs
-behavioral, biological, cultural
-HIV, Chlamydia, HPV (most common curable)
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, QUESTION: Demographic variables ✓✓Correct Answer: -number of adolescents and young adults
10-24 year olds make up 1/5 of the population
-their living arrangements
more than 25% of children lived in one family houses and 55% of black children and 31% of hispanic
children were more likely to live in single parent homes than white children (21%)
-their employment status
16-24 makes up 13% of labor force
- their access to healthcare
most health insurance and access to healthcare is connected to employment status
QUESTION: Health behaviors of high school students ✓✓Correct Answer: CDC gives Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance System survey to students
-Unintentional injuries
seatbelt use, helmets
-Violence
carrying a weapon, physical fights, dating violence, bullying, suicide ideation/attempt
men: weapons women: sexual assault
-Tobacco use
nicotine, e-cigs, hookah, chewing tobacco
easy access
-Alcohol and other drugs
contributes to unintentional injuries, inhalants
-Sexual behaviors - unintended pregnancies and -STDs
educational, economical, psychosocial risks
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NURS 111 ADOLESCEENT AND YOUNG ADULT HEALTH CARE PRACTICAL GUIDE
7TH EDITION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |GRADE A+
QUESTION: Why are the years 10-64 considered the most productive years of one's lifetime?
✓✓Correct Answer: Many people
-complete their formal education
-meet lifelong partners, become parents
-raise a family, find and develop their vocation
-earn their greatest amount of wealthy engagement in the community
-travel
- become aunts, grandparents, etc
QUESTION: What physiological and psychological changes occur during the stage of childhood to
adulthood? ✓✓Correct Answer: Hormonal changes, physical maturation, and opportunities to
engage in risk behavior
QUESTION: what is meant by life course approach? ✓✓Correct Answer: Health status and
environmental exposures in the early part of one's life that will impact their adult health status to
understand health and disease.
QUESTION: what percentage of the US population fall into this age group? What are the
demographics for this age group? ✓✓Correct Answer: ages 10-24
1/5 of the population and 54% of adolescents were non-hispanic white
QUESTION: what are the living arrangements for the age group? ✓✓Correct Answer: more than 25%
of children lived in one family houses
55% of black children and 31% of hispanic children were more likely to live in single parent homes
than white children (21%)
1|Page
,QUESTION: What is the significant change in labor force participation for the 16-19 year old age
group? How does employment break down demographically? ✓✓Correct Answer: Participation of
women increases and there is an increased attendance and enrollment in school
ages 16-24 make up 13% of the labor force
Disparities can be by race and ethnicity. If you are not working, your access to healthcare decreases
QUESTION: How does this affect healthcare? ✓✓Correct Answer: Young adults have less access to
health and tend to use emergency rooms for care more than core adolescents.
QUESTION: why had mortality decrease for this group since the 1950s? ✓✓Correct Answer:
Mortality decrease nearly 50% since the 50s because of advances in medicine and injury, disease
prevention, and behavior changes.
QUESTION: who had the highest mortality rates in this group? Why? ✓✓Correct Answer:
adolescents and young adult males because of unintentional injuries, behavior, and their
environment.
QUESTION: what group has the highest mortality rate in relation to motor vehicle accidents? why?
✓✓Correct Answer: 15-25 year olds because of alcohol consumption
QUESTION: what mortality rate has shown to be alarming? ✓✓Correct Answer: suicide
QUESTION: which group has the highest homicide rate? ✓✓Correct Answer: Black males as their
rates are 4 times higher than hispanic males
QUESTION: Why is it important for community and public health workers to be aware of the the
significant health problems of the various age groups in the United States? ✓✓Correct Answer: they
can detect the sources of diseases, injury, or death for specific priority populations and to propose
programs to reduce those sources
QUESTION: What ages are included in the following two age groups: adolescents and young adults
and adults? What are the ages of the two subgroups of adults? ✓✓Correct Answer: adolescents and
young adults: 15 - 24
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,adults: 25-24 and 45-64
QUESTION: why are the number of adolescents and young adults, living arrangements, and
employment status such key demographic characteristics of young people in regard to community
health? ✓✓Correct Answer: Living arrangements: due to an increasing divorce rate, the number of
children and adolescents living in a single parent household has increased in the past few decades
Employee status: employment is directly related to health insurance and health care
QUESTION: What are the leading causes of death for adolescents, young adults, and adults?
✓✓Correct Answer: unintentional injuries
QUESTION: What are the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System, and what type of data do they generate? ✓✓Correct Answer: used to track
health behaviors of students in grade 9-12 from public and private schools
QUESTION: What are the behaviors that put each of these cohorts-- adolescents, college students,
and adults-- at greatest risk and how does a person's environment impact these behaviors?
✓✓Correct Answer: adolescents: tobacco use
college students: alcohol
Adults: chronic disease
QUESTION: How would you summarize the health profile of the two cohorts presented in this
chapter? ✓✓Correct Answer: Adolescents/ young adults: characteristics by mortality and morbidity
from specific diseases, health behaviors, and life choices
Adults: Health profile of this groups is characterized by mortality from chronic diseases stemming
from poor lifestyle choices and health behaviors during the earlier stages of life
QUESTION: communicable diseases ✓✓Correct Answer: -measles
-STDs
-behavioral, biological, cultural
-HIV, Chlamydia, HPV (most common curable)
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, QUESTION: Demographic variables ✓✓Correct Answer: -number of adolescents and young adults
10-24 year olds make up 1/5 of the population
-their living arrangements
more than 25% of children lived in one family houses and 55% of black children and 31% of hispanic
children were more likely to live in single parent homes than white children (21%)
-their employment status
16-24 makes up 13% of labor force
- their access to healthcare
most health insurance and access to healthcare is connected to employment status
QUESTION: Health behaviors of high school students ✓✓Correct Answer: CDC gives Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance System survey to students
-Unintentional injuries
seatbelt use, helmets
-Violence
carrying a weapon, physical fights, dating violence, bullying, suicide ideation/attempt
men: weapons women: sexual assault
-Tobacco use
nicotine, e-cigs, hookah, chewing tobacco
easy access
-Alcohol and other drugs
contributes to unintentional injuries, inhalants
-Sexual behaviors - unintended pregnancies and -STDs
educational, economical, psychosocial risks
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