Final Exam: NU 629 / NU629 (Latest Update
) Advanced Health Promotion &
Disease Prevention | Questions and Answers |
Grade A | 100% Correct. Regis
1. The body of knowledge, principles and concepts used in Health
Education comes from a variety of fields. Which one of the following is
NOT a field used in health education?: Astronomy
2. Between 1850 and 1950, the primary focus of public health efforts in
the US was to: Control infectious diseases
3. In public health, what method is used to keep people from sliding
towards unhealthy lifestyle behaviors?: Disease Prevention
4. What are some of the reasons it is important to address health
disparities in the US?: All of these are correct (gaps in income, zip codes, US
is more diverse)
5. The number of deaths per 100,000 population is known as: Mortality rate
,6. The average number of years of life remaining is known as the: Life
Expectancy
7. To measure the number of all causes of death in the US, which rate
would you choose?: Crude Death Rate
8. According to the health field concept, there are four factors which
interact to influence health. A person's genetic predisposition to disease
would fall into which of the following factors of the health field concept?:
Human biology
9. Behaviors such as smoking, poor diet, and inactivity are ________ risk
factors, whereas genetics and demographic characteristics (e.g. age,
gender, etc.) are ___________ risk factors: modifiable/nonmodifiable
10. Providing education to a diabetic on how to use insulin is an example
of which level of prevention?: Tertiary prevention
11. Which of the following is NOT considered a "social determinant of
health" ?: Genetics
12. Providing smokers with nicotine gum to help stop progression to
cancer is an example of which level of prevention?: Primary prevention
, 13. What percentage of death could be prevented by controlling
modifiable risk factors?: 40% to 70%
14. The use of diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus (DTP)
vaccine is an example of which level of prevention?: Primary prevention
15. What level of prevention is screening and case finding strategies?:
Secondary prevention
16. Preventing infection by identifying strategies to break the link
between events leading from the pathogen to disease in a host is descriptive
of which of the following?: The Chain of Infection
17. Epidemiology is: The study of the distribution and determinants of
diseases in a specific population
18. Which answer below is one of the first tasks a health educator should
consider before developing an intervention for a community or
population?: -
Assessing the needs of the community/population
19. Which book of the bible could be considered to be a hygienic code?:
Leviticus
) Advanced Health Promotion &
Disease Prevention | Questions and Answers |
Grade A | 100% Correct. Regis
1. The body of knowledge, principles and concepts used in Health
Education comes from a variety of fields. Which one of the following is
NOT a field used in health education?: Astronomy
2. Between 1850 and 1950, the primary focus of public health efforts in
the US was to: Control infectious diseases
3. In public health, what method is used to keep people from sliding
towards unhealthy lifestyle behaviors?: Disease Prevention
4. What are some of the reasons it is important to address health
disparities in the US?: All of these are correct (gaps in income, zip codes, US
is more diverse)
5. The number of deaths per 100,000 population is known as: Mortality rate
,6. The average number of years of life remaining is known as the: Life
Expectancy
7. To measure the number of all causes of death in the US, which rate
would you choose?: Crude Death Rate
8. According to the health field concept, there are four factors which
interact to influence health. A person's genetic predisposition to disease
would fall into which of the following factors of the health field concept?:
Human biology
9. Behaviors such as smoking, poor diet, and inactivity are ________ risk
factors, whereas genetics and demographic characteristics (e.g. age,
gender, etc.) are ___________ risk factors: modifiable/nonmodifiable
10. Providing education to a diabetic on how to use insulin is an example
of which level of prevention?: Tertiary prevention
11. Which of the following is NOT considered a "social determinant of
health" ?: Genetics
12. Providing smokers with nicotine gum to help stop progression to
cancer is an example of which level of prevention?: Primary prevention
, 13. What percentage of death could be prevented by controlling
modifiable risk factors?: 40% to 70%
14. The use of diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus (DTP)
vaccine is an example of which level of prevention?: Primary prevention
15. What level of prevention is screening and case finding strategies?:
Secondary prevention
16. Preventing infection by identifying strategies to break the link
between events leading from the pathogen to disease in a host is descriptive
of which of the following?: The Chain of Infection
17. Epidemiology is: The study of the distribution and determinants of
diseases in a specific population
18. Which answer below is one of the first tasks a health educator should
consider before developing an intervention for a community or
population?: -
Assessing the needs of the community/population
19. Which book of the bible could be considered to be a hygienic code?:
Leviticus
