Life Span 10th Edition by Carole L. Edelman &
Elizabeth C. Kudzma
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, Chapter 01: Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive health
care?
a. Clinical model
b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model
CORRECT ANSWER: A
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as indicative of
health. People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
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2. A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider as well as receives
acupuncture. Which model of health does this person likely favor?
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a. Clinical model
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b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model
CORRECT ANSWER: D
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating
meaning in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be enough for someone who
believes in the eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often look for
alternative providers of care.
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3. A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person‘s potential and is
experienced within a developmental context is known as:
a. growth and development.
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,b. health.
c. functioning.
d. high-level wellness.
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a
person‘s potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
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4. Which of the following best describes a client who has an illness?
a. Someone who has well-controlled diabetes
b. Someone with hypercholesterolemia
c. Someone with a headache
d. Someone with coronary artery disease without angina
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e. CORRECT ANSWER: C
Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective
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experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a
response characterized by a mismatch between a person‘s needs and the resources available to meet
those needs. A person can have a disease without feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.
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5. Which US report is considered a landmark document in creating a global approach to health?
a. The 1990 Health Objectives for the Nation: A Midcourse Review
b. Healthy People 2020
c. Healthy People 2000
d. The U.S. Surgeon General Report
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Healthy People 2000 and its Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions were landmark documents in
which a consortium of people representing national organizations worked with US Public Health
Service officials to create a more global approach to health.
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, 6. Which of the following represents a method of primary prevention?
a. Informational session about healthy lifestyles
b. Blood pressure screening
c. Interventional cardiac catheterization
d. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
CORRECT ANSWER: A
Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and specific
protection and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about healthy lifestyles fits this
definition. Blood pressure screening does not prevent disease, but instead identifies it.
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7. Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
a. Self–breast examination education
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b. Yearly mammograms
c. Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
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d. Complete mastectomy for breast cancer
CORRECT ANSWER: B
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Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to identify individuals
in an early, detectable stage of the disease process. A mammogram is a screening tool for breast
cancer and thus is considered a method of secondary prevention.
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8. Which of the following represents a method of tertiary prevention?
a. Drunk driving campaign
b. Road blocks for drunk driving
c. Emergency surgery for head trauma after a motor vehicle accident
d. Physical and occupational therapy after a motor vehicle accident with headtrauma
CORRECT ANSWER: D
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