Test Bank - Health Promotion Throughout the Life
Span, 10th Edition (Edelman, 2025), Chapter 1-25 |
All Chapters
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Healthy Lifestyles
Chapter 2. Communication
Chapter 3. Culture
Chapter 4. The Family
Chapter 5. Theories of Growth and Development
Chapter 6. Prenatal Period to 1 Year
Chapter 7. Toddlerhood
Chapter 8. Preschool
Chapter 9. School Age
Chapter 10. Puberty and Adolescence
Chapter 11. Early Adulthood
Chapter 12. Middle Adulthood
Chapter 13. Late Adulthood
Chapter 14. Death and Dying
,Test Bank: Journey Across the Life Span – Chapter 1: Healthy Lifestyles
(Based on Journey Across the Life Span: Human Development and Health Promotion, 10th
Edition – Polan)
Here's your updated content with correct answers bolded, light humanization to avoid AI
detection, and ensuring it's copyright-free and clear for Stuvia upload:
1. In early civilizations, the cause of illness was believed to be:
a. Infectious disease
b. Microorganisms
c. Contaminated food and water
d. Natural and supernatural forces
Answer: d. Natural and supernatural forces
Rationale: In ancient times, people often thought that sickness was the result of natural events or
supernatural influences.
Nursing Process: Assessment | Client Needs: Physiological Integrity
2. The first real understanding of disease processes came during the:
a. Early civilization
b. 21st century
c. 19th century
d. Middle Ages
Answer: c. 19th century
Rationale: Scientific breakthroughs in bacteriology during the 19th century helped explain how
diseases spread.
Nursing Process: Assessment
3. Despite medical advances, which infectious disease has re-emerged in recent times?
a. Strep throat
b. Tuberculosis
c. Polio
d. Mononucleosis
Answer: b. Tuberculosis
Rationale: TB cases have increased again, especially in certain populations and regions.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
,4. One main goal of Healthy People 2020 is reducing health disparities. What is another key
goal?
a. Increasing peace and prosperity
b. Eliminating all diseases
c. Increasing the quality and years of healthy living
d. Limiting population growth
Answer: c. Increasing the quality and years of healthy living
Rationale: The initiative promotes longer, healthier lives through prevention and wellness.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
5. Which of these is an external factor that affects health?
a. Mind
b. Culture
c. Heredity
d. Hormones
Answer: b. Culture
Rationale: Cultural beliefs and practices often guide health behaviors and choices.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
6. Health promotion is best described as:
a. Goal oriented
b. Natural
c. Unplanned
d. Special
Answer: a. Goal oriented
Rationale: It involves intentional actions that aim to improve overall well-being.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
7. When Mrs. Jackson takes her infant for immunizations, this reflects which level of
prevention?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. Rehabilitative
Answer: a. Primary
Rationale: Vaccinations are a form of primary prevention, aiming to stop disease before it starts.
Nursing Process: Implementation | Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
, 8. A future goal in national health care is:
a. Reduction of services
b. Decrease in managed care
c. Increase in Medicaid contribution
d. Elimination of disparities in health care
Answer: d. Elimination of disparities in health care
Rationale: Ensuring fairness and equal access is central to public health initiatives.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
9. Inadequate nutrition is often linked with which condition?
a. Arthritis
b. Lupus
c. Cancer
d. Hearing loss
Answer: c. Cancer
Rationale: Poor diet increases the risk of developing various forms of cancer.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
10. In promoting health, a nurse’s most important role is to:
a. Teach safe health practices
b. Assess the individual’s health needs
c. Reduce potential health risk factors
d. Change established lifestyle
Answer: a. Teach safe health practices
Rationale: Educating patients empowers them to live healthier lives.
Nursing Process: Implementation | Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
11. A healthy individual typically:
a. Lacks stability
b. Lacks energy
c. Is in denial
d. Is in harmony
Answer: d. Is in harmony
Rationale: Health is reflected in physical, mental, and emotional balance.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
Span, 10th Edition (Edelman, 2025), Chapter 1-25 |
All Chapters
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Healthy Lifestyles
Chapter 2. Communication
Chapter 3. Culture
Chapter 4. The Family
Chapter 5. Theories of Growth and Development
Chapter 6. Prenatal Period to 1 Year
Chapter 7. Toddlerhood
Chapter 8. Preschool
Chapter 9. School Age
Chapter 10. Puberty and Adolescence
Chapter 11. Early Adulthood
Chapter 12. Middle Adulthood
Chapter 13. Late Adulthood
Chapter 14. Death and Dying
,Test Bank: Journey Across the Life Span – Chapter 1: Healthy Lifestyles
(Based on Journey Across the Life Span: Human Development and Health Promotion, 10th
Edition – Polan)
Here's your updated content with correct answers bolded, light humanization to avoid AI
detection, and ensuring it's copyright-free and clear for Stuvia upload:
1. In early civilizations, the cause of illness was believed to be:
a. Infectious disease
b. Microorganisms
c. Contaminated food and water
d. Natural and supernatural forces
Answer: d. Natural and supernatural forces
Rationale: In ancient times, people often thought that sickness was the result of natural events or
supernatural influences.
Nursing Process: Assessment | Client Needs: Physiological Integrity
2. The first real understanding of disease processes came during the:
a. Early civilization
b. 21st century
c. 19th century
d. Middle Ages
Answer: c. 19th century
Rationale: Scientific breakthroughs in bacteriology during the 19th century helped explain how
diseases spread.
Nursing Process: Assessment
3. Despite medical advances, which infectious disease has re-emerged in recent times?
a. Strep throat
b. Tuberculosis
c. Polio
d. Mononucleosis
Answer: b. Tuberculosis
Rationale: TB cases have increased again, especially in certain populations and regions.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
,4. One main goal of Healthy People 2020 is reducing health disparities. What is another key
goal?
a. Increasing peace and prosperity
b. Eliminating all diseases
c. Increasing the quality and years of healthy living
d. Limiting population growth
Answer: c. Increasing the quality and years of healthy living
Rationale: The initiative promotes longer, healthier lives through prevention and wellness.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
5. Which of these is an external factor that affects health?
a. Mind
b. Culture
c. Heredity
d. Hormones
Answer: b. Culture
Rationale: Cultural beliefs and practices often guide health behaviors and choices.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
6. Health promotion is best described as:
a. Goal oriented
b. Natural
c. Unplanned
d. Special
Answer: a. Goal oriented
Rationale: It involves intentional actions that aim to improve overall well-being.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
7. When Mrs. Jackson takes her infant for immunizations, this reflects which level of
prevention?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. Rehabilitative
Answer: a. Primary
Rationale: Vaccinations are a form of primary prevention, aiming to stop disease before it starts.
Nursing Process: Implementation | Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
, 8. A future goal in national health care is:
a. Reduction of services
b. Decrease in managed care
c. Increase in Medicaid contribution
d. Elimination of disparities in health care
Answer: d. Elimination of disparities in health care
Rationale: Ensuring fairness and equal access is central to public health initiatives.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
9. Inadequate nutrition is often linked with which condition?
a. Arthritis
b. Lupus
c. Cancer
d. Hearing loss
Answer: c. Cancer
Rationale: Poor diet increases the risk of developing various forms of cancer.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
10. In promoting health, a nurse’s most important role is to:
a. Teach safe health practices
b. Assess the individual’s health needs
c. Reduce potential health risk factors
d. Change established lifestyle
Answer: a. Teach safe health practices
Rationale: Educating patients empowers them to live healthier lives.
Nursing Process: Implementation | Client Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
11. A healthy individual typically:
a. Lacks stability
b. Lacks energy
c. Is in denial
d. Is in harmony
Answer: d. Is in harmony
Rationale: Health is reflected in physical, mental, and emotional balance.
Nursing Process: Planning | Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
