NU 629-Exam 1-Adv Health Promotion
& Disease Prevention Study Guide
Questions with Actual Detailed
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Health Disparity - Answer a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with
social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage
Vulnerability - Answer general concept meaning of "susceptibility" and has a specific
connotation in health care as "at risk for health problems."
Patient Advocacy - Answer safeguarding autonomy, acting on the patient's behalf, and
championing social justice
Health Access - Answer the ability of a person to receive healthcare related services
Resilience - Answer the ability to adapt effectively in the face of threats
Cultural Competence - Answer is a way of practicing one's profession by being sensitive to
the differences in cultures of one's constituents and acting in a way that is respectful of the
client's values and traditions while performing those activities or procedures necessary for the
client's well-being.
Cultural Values - Answer beliefs that are so central to a cultural group that they are never
questioned
Social work - Answer a profession whose primary concern is how human needs can be met
within society
Community - Answer assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
Global Society - Answer seeing the world as one large community of multicultural people
,Social Justice - Answer the equitable measuring of benefits and burdens in society.
Changing social relationships and institutions to promote equitable relationships
Forms of Justice - Answer Awareness, amelioration, and transformation
Social, distributive, and market justice
health illiteracy - Answer the ability to read and comprehend prescription bottles,
appointment slips, and other essential health-related materials required to successfully function
as a patient
Social Network - Answer A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others,
and through them indirectly to still more people. Can impact their health status and health
outcomes.
Health Promotion Model (HPM) - Answer developed to illustrate how people interact with
their environment as they pursue health.
Comprises three primary areas (1) personal characteristics and experiences, (2) behaviors-
specific cognition and affect, and (3) behavioral outcome
Health Belief Model - Answer A theory of health behaviors; the model predicts that whether
a person practices a particular health habit can be understood by knowing the degree to which
the person perceives a personal health threat and the perception that a particular health
practice will be effective in reducing that threat.
Change - Answer In order for nurses to assist patients in successfully making behavioral
changes, it is important to understand an individual's decision-making process as it pertains to
behavioral change.
Bioethics - Answer The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care.
Research Ethical Errors, Mistakes and what has been learned - Answer In the evolution of
medical science through research, many unethical situations occurred that became
inconvenient to the medical profession and some governments. These unethical clinical medical
studies usually were performed using vulnerable populations and occurred in developed as well
as developing countries. These situations forced the development of more restrictive national
and international ethical code recommendations on how to conduct research with vulnerable
populations.
, Quantitative - Answer Data that is in numbers.
Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity (number) of something rather than its
quality.
Qualitative - Answer Data in the form of recorded descriptions rather than numerical
measurements.
Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity.
Immersion Programs - Answer are powerful learning experiences at all levels because they
enable participants to experience different cultures out of their usual safe context. Immersion
programs are probably the best way to induce cultural competence, although they are costly
and time consuming.
Screening - Answer To test or examine for the presence of something (as a disease)
Preventative Services - Answer Any health maintenance test and procedure will be
documented as a preventative service to maintain an overall picture of patients health
maintenance procedures
Levels of Prevention - Answer Primary: prevent/promotion
Secondary: screen-early detection
Tertiary: treat- to prevent further deterioration, rehab
Sex Trafficking - Answer The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of
a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.
Native Americans - Answer a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Aday - Answer published a framework for studying vulnerable populations that incorporated
the World Health Organization's (1948) dimensions of health (physical, psychological, and social)
into a model of relationships between individual and community on a variety of policy levels
Marginalization - Answer treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or
peripheral, discrimination, poor access to health care, and resultant illnesses and traumas from
& Disease Prevention Study Guide
Questions with Actual Detailed
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Health Disparity - Answer a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with
social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage
Vulnerability - Answer general concept meaning of "susceptibility" and has a specific
connotation in health care as "at risk for health problems."
Patient Advocacy - Answer safeguarding autonomy, acting on the patient's behalf, and
championing social justice
Health Access - Answer the ability of a person to receive healthcare related services
Resilience - Answer the ability to adapt effectively in the face of threats
Cultural Competence - Answer is a way of practicing one's profession by being sensitive to
the differences in cultures of one's constituents and acting in a way that is respectful of the
client's values and traditions while performing those activities or procedures necessary for the
client's well-being.
Cultural Values - Answer beliefs that are so central to a cultural group that they are never
questioned
Social work - Answer a profession whose primary concern is how human needs can be met
within society
Community - Answer assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
Global Society - Answer seeing the world as one large community of multicultural people
,Social Justice - Answer the equitable measuring of benefits and burdens in society.
Changing social relationships and institutions to promote equitable relationships
Forms of Justice - Answer Awareness, amelioration, and transformation
Social, distributive, and market justice
health illiteracy - Answer the ability to read and comprehend prescription bottles,
appointment slips, and other essential health-related materials required to successfully function
as a patient
Social Network - Answer A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others,
and through them indirectly to still more people. Can impact their health status and health
outcomes.
Health Promotion Model (HPM) - Answer developed to illustrate how people interact with
their environment as they pursue health.
Comprises three primary areas (1) personal characteristics and experiences, (2) behaviors-
specific cognition and affect, and (3) behavioral outcome
Health Belief Model - Answer A theory of health behaviors; the model predicts that whether
a person practices a particular health habit can be understood by knowing the degree to which
the person perceives a personal health threat and the perception that a particular health
practice will be effective in reducing that threat.
Change - Answer In order for nurses to assist patients in successfully making behavioral
changes, it is important to understand an individual's decision-making process as it pertains to
behavioral change.
Bioethics - Answer The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care.
Research Ethical Errors, Mistakes and what has been learned - Answer In the evolution of
medical science through research, many unethical situations occurred that became
inconvenient to the medical profession and some governments. These unethical clinical medical
studies usually were performed using vulnerable populations and occurred in developed as well
as developing countries. These situations forced the development of more restrictive national
and international ethical code recommendations on how to conduct research with vulnerable
populations.
, Quantitative - Answer Data that is in numbers.
Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity (number) of something rather than its
quality.
Qualitative - Answer Data in the form of recorded descriptions rather than numerical
measurements.
Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity.
Immersion Programs - Answer are powerful learning experiences at all levels because they
enable participants to experience different cultures out of their usual safe context. Immersion
programs are probably the best way to induce cultural competence, although they are costly
and time consuming.
Screening - Answer To test or examine for the presence of something (as a disease)
Preventative Services - Answer Any health maintenance test and procedure will be
documented as a preventative service to maintain an overall picture of patients health
maintenance procedures
Levels of Prevention - Answer Primary: prevent/promotion
Secondary: screen-early detection
Tertiary: treat- to prevent further deterioration, rehab
Sex Trafficking - Answer The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of
a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.
Native Americans - Answer a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Aday - Answer published a framework for studying vulnerable populations that incorporated
the World Health Organization's (1948) dimensions of health (physical, psychological, and social)
into a model of relationships between individual and community on a variety of policy levels
Marginalization - Answer treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or
peripheral, discrimination, poor access to health care, and resultant illnesses and traumas from
