KPER 1200 FINAL EXAMPREP VERIFIED
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
PREMIUM STUDY PACK
●● Selective pressures
Answer: Environmental factor that affects the reproduction capabilities
of a species
●● Environmental mismatch
Answer: The selective pressures that favoured a capacity for physical
activity are no longer present. We have designed our environment to
minimize physical activity
●● Public Health
Answer: a multidisciplinary field that aims to promote health and
prevent disease in specific populations and communities
●● 5 Pillars of Public Health:
Answer: 1. Epidemiology and disease control: The study of distributions
and determinants of disability and disease in populations
Distributions-Where are they located?
Determinants- What causes specific diseases/disabilities?
,2. Environmental Health: The study of how our environment influences
our health
3. Health Promotion and Education: How can we enhance the health of
the population
4. Health Administration and Policy: Delivery of health services (by
laws, rules, regulations designed to promote health)
5. Biostatistics: Analysis of health data: Focus on statistic towards
biology
●● Communicable disease:
Answer: Infectious disease, disease caused by pathogens such as
viruses/bacteria
●● Non-communicable disease:
Answer: Chronic disease, diseases that develop over a long period of
time like diabetes, cancer and heart disease
●● Top 10 Causes of death in 2013:
Answer: 1. Cancer
2. Heart disease
3. Stroke
4. Chronic, lower respiratory diseases
5. Accidents
6. Diabetes
,7. Influenza and pneumonia
8. Alzheimer's
9. Self harm
10. Kidney disease
●● Public Health
Answer: encompasses many disciplines in effort to promote and protect
health and prevent disease and disability in defined populations and
communities
●● medicine
Answer: Medicine is more interested in treatment of and cures for
diseases and disabilities in individuals
●● Epidemiology
Answer: he study of distribution and determinants of disease and
disability in populations
●● Environmental
Answer: all that is external to the host organism
●● Health and promotion
Answer: how do we deal with health threats
, ●● Health administration and policy
Answer: Focuses on the delivery of public health services
●● Biostatistics
Answer: relies on both qualitative and quantitative methods to move
from knowledge to action
●● WHO principles of health promotion
Answer: • Empowerment and inclusion: empower individuals and
communities
• Intersectoral collaboration: health programs should be directed at
relevant determinants or causes of health
• Multidimensional: should use all tools possible
• Participatory: strive to be inclusive to maximize participation
• Advocacy: people with interest is health should take responsibility for
health promotion
●● Physical activity and public health
Answer: is a field of study that looks at the health effects and risks of
physical activity and ways to help people become active and maintain a
healthy level of activity throughout their lives
●● What is a chronic disease?
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
PREMIUM STUDY PACK
●● Selective pressures
Answer: Environmental factor that affects the reproduction capabilities
of a species
●● Environmental mismatch
Answer: The selective pressures that favoured a capacity for physical
activity are no longer present. We have designed our environment to
minimize physical activity
●● Public Health
Answer: a multidisciplinary field that aims to promote health and
prevent disease in specific populations and communities
●● 5 Pillars of Public Health:
Answer: 1. Epidemiology and disease control: The study of distributions
and determinants of disability and disease in populations
Distributions-Where are they located?
Determinants- What causes specific diseases/disabilities?
,2. Environmental Health: The study of how our environment influences
our health
3. Health Promotion and Education: How can we enhance the health of
the population
4. Health Administration and Policy: Delivery of health services (by
laws, rules, regulations designed to promote health)
5. Biostatistics: Analysis of health data: Focus on statistic towards
biology
●● Communicable disease:
Answer: Infectious disease, disease caused by pathogens such as
viruses/bacteria
●● Non-communicable disease:
Answer: Chronic disease, diseases that develop over a long period of
time like diabetes, cancer and heart disease
●● Top 10 Causes of death in 2013:
Answer: 1. Cancer
2. Heart disease
3. Stroke
4. Chronic, lower respiratory diseases
5. Accidents
6. Diabetes
,7. Influenza and pneumonia
8. Alzheimer's
9. Self harm
10. Kidney disease
●● Public Health
Answer: encompasses many disciplines in effort to promote and protect
health and prevent disease and disability in defined populations and
communities
●● medicine
Answer: Medicine is more interested in treatment of and cures for
diseases and disabilities in individuals
●● Epidemiology
Answer: he study of distribution and determinants of disease and
disability in populations
●● Environmental
Answer: all that is external to the host organism
●● Health and promotion
Answer: how do we deal with health threats
, ●● Health administration and policy
Answer: Focuses on the delivery of public health services
●● Biostatistics
Answer: relies on both qualitative and quantitative methods to move
from knowledge to action
●● WHO principles of health promotion
Answer: • Empowerment and inclusion: empower individuals and
communities
• Intersectoral collaboration: health programs should be directed at
relevant determinants or causes of health
• Multidimensional: should use all tools possible
• Participatory: strive to be inclusive to maximize participation
• Advocacy: people with interest is health should take responsibility for
health promotion
●● Physical activity and public health
Answer: is a field of study that looks at the health effects and risks of
physical activity and ways to help people become active and maintain a
healthy level of activity throughout their lives
●● What is a chronic disease?
