BSNC 1000- Midterm Question and
answers verified to pass 2025/2026
Illness - correct answer ✔Experience of being sick
- Perception of reactions to physical/psychological condition
- Subjective
Disease - correct answer ✔- Physiological/psychological dysfunction, involves abnormality
- Evidence based
- Objective
12 core determinants of health - correct answer ✔1. Gender
2. Health services
3. Employment
4. Education
5. Physical environments
6. Social support networks
7. Personal health practices and coping skills
8. Social environments
9. Healthy child development
10. Biology and genetic environment
11. Culture
12. Financial and social status
Community health - correct answer ✔- Community in a population
,- Knowing someone belongs, trust, supportive
- Belonging to groups, supports, recreation, faith and public health
Population Health - correct answer ✔- Looking at conditions that could affect health
Conditions in population health that affect health - correct answer ✔- Sanitation
- Air quality
- Mold
- Birth rate decline
- Mortality rates
Population health exemplars - correct answer ✔- Promote vaccines, promotes healthcare child
experience
- Illness/injury=WCB
Prevalence - correct answer ✔- Number of people that have disease
Epidemiology - correct answer ✔- Science of understanding certain populations at risk for illness
Levels of prevention - correct answer ✔tertiary > secondary > primary
Primary prevention - correct answer ✔Before condition occurs
- Eating habits, covid vaccine, vaccination (in children), PPE
Secondary prevention - correct answer ✔During development of condition
- Health screening
, - Strategies that can manage a disease
- Vaccinations for adults experiencing comorbidities
Tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔After condition occured
- Diabetes (blood sugar monitoring)
- Cardiac disease (BP)
- Mastectomy (Breast cancer)
Primary prevention for diabetes - correct answer ✔- Limiting sugar intake, health weight, physical
activity
Secondary prevention for diabetes - correct answer ✔- Screening, promoting healthy lifestyle
Tertiary prevention for diabetes - correct answer ✔- Blood glucose levels, visiting endocrinologist, A1C
Chronic disease management examples - correct answer ✔- Self care
- Requires ongoing, planned, integrated approach
- Education, support, action plans
Descriptive epidemiology - correct answer ✔- Examines health outcomes in terms of who, where, when
in relation to what
Analytic epidemiology - correct answer ✔- Examines ethology of a disease (cause), why and how
Incidence - correct answer ✔- Measure of number of new cases of a disease or a event in population at
risk over a defined period
answers verified to pass 2025/2026
Illness - correct answer ✔Experience of being sick
- Perception of reactions to physical/psychological condition
- Subjective
Disease - correct answer ✔- Physiological/psychological dysfunction, involves abnormality
- Evidence based
- Objective
12 core determinants of health - correct answer ✔1. Gender
2. Health services
3. Employment
4. Education
5. Physical environments
6. Social support networks
7. Personal health practices and coping skills
8. Social environments
9. Healthy child development
10. Biology and genetic environment
11. Culture
12. Financial and social status
Community health - correct answer ✔- Community in a population
,- Knowing someone belongs, trust, supportive
- Belonging to groups, supports, recreation, faith and public health
Population Health - correct answer ✔- Looking at conditions that could affect health
Conditions in population health that affect health - correct answer ✔- Sanitation
- Air quality
- Mold
- Birth rate decline
- Mortality rates
Population health exemplars - correct answer ✔- Promote vaccines, promotes healthcare child
experience
- Illness/injury=WCB
Prevalence - correct answer ✔- Number of people that have disease
Epidemiology - correct answer ✔- Science of understanding certain populations at risk for illness
Levels of prevention - correct answer ✔tertiary > secondary > primary
Primary prevention - correct answer ✔Before condition occurs
- Eating habits, covid vaccine, vaccination (in children), PPE
Secondary prevention - correct answer ✔During development of condition
- Health screening
, - Strategies that can manage a disease
- Vaccinations for adults experiencing comorbidities
Tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔After condition occured
- Diabetes (blood sugar monitoring)
- Cardiac disease (BP)
- Mastectomy (Breast cancer)
Primary prevention for diabetes - correct answer ✔- Limiting sugar intake, health weight, physical
activity
Secondary prevention for diabetes - correct answer ✔- Screening, promoting healthy lifestyle
Tertiary prevention for diabetes - correct answer ✔- Blood glucose levels, visiting endocrinologist, A1C
Chronic disease management examples - correct answer ✔- Self care
- Requires ongoing, planned, integrated approach
- Education, support, action plans
Descriptive epidemiology - correct answer ✔- Examines health outcomes in terms of who, where, when
in relation to what
Analytic epidemiology - correct answer ✔- Examines ethology of a disease (cause), why and how
Incidence - correct answer ✔- Measure of number of new cases of a disease or a event in population at
risk over a defined period
