INFECTION CONTROL TEST BANK
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
ALREADY GRADED A+
●● What is disease prevention?
Answer: Primary and secondary preventive measures aimed at reducing
the burden of disease and associated risk factors.
●● What are health outcomes?
Answer: The result of health promotion and disease prevention
measures.
●● What does wellness refer to?
Answer: A positive state of health.
●● What are the Healthy People Initiatives?
Answer: National health promotion and disease prevention objectives
developed every ten years to improve the health of all Americans.
●● When was the Healthy People initiative launched?
Answer: In 1979.
, ●● What was the original focus of the Healthy People initiative?
Answer: Reducing preventable death and injury.
●● What is the current edition of the Healthy People initiative?
Answer: Healthy People 2030, which is in its fifth edition.
●● How does the United States rank in terms of life expectancy
compared to other developed countries?
Answer: The United States trails other developed countries for life
expectancy, infant mortality, and obesity.
●● What is health communication?
Answer: Verbal and written approaches to control, inspire, and make
healthier choices for people, groups, and societies.
●● What are the characteristics of effective health communication?
Answer: It needs to be evidence-based, culturally sensitive,
understandable, easily accessed, and delivered through a variety of
media.
●● What is health education?
Answer: Learning experiences designed to improve the health of an
individual or community through increased knowledge or by influencing
attitudes.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
ALREADY GRADED A+
●● What is disease prevention?
Answer: Primary and secondary preventive measures aimed at reducing
the burden of disease and associated risk factors.
●● What are health outcomes?
Answer: The result of health promotion and disease prevention
measures.
●● What does wellness refer to?
Answer: A positive state of health.
●● What are the Healthy People Initiatives?
Answer: National health promotion and disease prevention objectives
developed every ten years to improve the health of all Americans.
●● When was the Healthy People initiative launched?
Answer: In 1979.
, ●● What was the original focus of the Healthy People initiative?
Answer: Reducing preventable death and injury.
●● What is the current edition of the Healthy People initiative?
Answer: Healthy People 2030, which is in its fifth edition.
●● How does the United States rank in terms of life expectancy
compared to other developed countries?
Answer: The United States trails other developed countries for life
expectancy, infant mortality, and obesity.
●● What is health communication?
Answer: Verbal and written approaches to control, inspire, and make
healthier choices for people, groups, and societies.
●● What are the characteristics of effective health communication?
Answer: It needs to be evidence-based, culturally sensitive,
understandable, easily accessed, and delivered through a variety of
media.
●● What is health education?
Answer: Learning experiences designed to improve the health of an
individual or community through increased knowledge or by influencing
attitudes.
