PNR 315 FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. The extent of social and cultural cohesion within a community is related to which health concern in
Indigenous communities?
Answer:
Suicide
Question:
2. Which would be included in the broader Aboriginal Determinants of Health?
Answer:
Territory Migration Colonization Cultural continuity
Question:
3. How are Innu and Inuit people distinct from each other?
Answer:
Innu people are part of a First Nation and Inuit people are a unique cultural group.
Question:
4. What is an example of a proximal determinant of health?
Answer:
Graduation from an Indigenous law program
Question:
5. In which activity is the CHN practising trauma-informed care?
Answer:
The CHN explores systematic desensitization techniques to address a client's fears.
Question:
6. The harm reduction approach to substance abuse focuses on health promotion and disease prevention.
Within this approach, what would be considered a primary prevention strategy to address substance abuse?
Answer:
Destroy the myth of good drugs versus bad drugs.
Question:
7. An elderly Inuit woman lives in a small, remote village in northern Canada. She has been diagnosed
with hypertension and diabetes, but rarely makes it to the regional clinic in a distant town for checkups.
What is this woman most likely to experience?
Answer:
Disenfranchisement
Question:
8. How are low-income cutoffs (LICOs) defined in Canada?
,Answer:
A measure of inequality, not poverty
Question:
9. When the CHN places emphasis on client strengths, gifts, and assets rather than on a client's needs,
deficits, and susceptibility, what is likely to increase?
Answer:
Resilience
Question:
10. Health education is often used as a strategy for working with vulnerable populations. What would be
strengthened through health education for groups or individuals?
Answer:
Health literacy
Question:
11. Many individuals living with mental health conditions are stigmatized and face isolation and exclusion.
Which determinant of health is the focus for improving these outcomes for individuals dealing with
inequities such as this?
Answer:
Social environment
Question:
12. What are CHNs who advocate for policy changes to expand access to health care for vulnerable
populations focus on eliminating?
Answer:
Health disparities
Question:
13. Which of the following situations is a challenge faced by deinstitutionalized individuals who are living
with mental health conditions?
Answer:
Continuity of care due to limited community-based services
Question:
14. Which one of the following situations is more prevalent in poor neighbourhoods?
Answer:
One-parent families
Question:
15. A community's structure can influence the potential for violence. What factor will decrease the
potential for community violence?
Answer:
Community cohesiveness
, Question:
16. An urban area uses local radio, TV, and newspapers to post ratings of air quality on days when the air
quality is poor. This notification is directed toward the elderly, the very young, and those with chronic
breathing problems. These groups are an example of which type of population?
Answer:
Vulnerable Population
Question:
17. A CHN working in an inner-city clinic in an area with high poverty and unemployment rates
recognizes the need for outreach to pregnant teens for which reason?
Answer:
Teens delay seeking prenatal care
Question:
18. Which of the following situations is addressed by creating opportunities and removing barriers to
achieving the health potential of all people?
Answer:
Health inequity
Question:
19. Which chronic health problem adversely affects the aging experience but is difficult to estimate the
numbers affected or the costs associated with managing it?
Answer:
Incontinence
Question:
20. CHNs practising within the comprehensive school health framework spend significant amounts of time
focusing on the prevention of health issues in schoolchildren at a stage that is early enough to avoid risk
factors arising in the first place. This is an example of which type of prevention?
Answer:
Primordial prevention
Question:
21. What is the most common cancer among Canadian men?
Answer:
Prostate Cancer
Question:
22. What is the single most important factor in the improvement of the health status of women and their
families?
Answer:
The education of women
Question:
23. Being female and having a family history are risk factors for which health concern?
Answer:
Depression
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. The extent of social and cultural cohesion within a community is related to which health concern in
Indigenous communities?
Answer:
Suicide
Question:
2. Which would be included in the broader Aboriginal Determinants of Health?
Answer:
Territory Migration Colonization Cultural continuity
Question:
3. How are Innu and Inuit people distinct from each other?
Answer:
Innu people are part of a First Nation and Inuit people are a unique cultural group.
Question:
4. What is an example of a proximal determinant of health?
Answer:
Graduation from an Indigenous law program
Question:
5. In which activity is the CHN practising trauma-informed care?
Answer:
The CHN explores systematic desensitization techniques to address a client's fears.
Question:
6. The harm reduction approach to substance abuse focuses on health promotion and disease prevention.
Within this approach, what would be considered a primary prevention strategy to address substance abuse?
Answer:
Destroy the myth of good drugs versus bad drugs.
Question:
7. An elderly Inuit woman lives in a small, remote village in northern Canada. She has been diagnosed
with hypertension and diabetes, but rarely makes it to the regional clinic in a distant town for checkups.
What is this woman most likely to experience?
Answer:
Disenfranchisement
Question:
8. How are low-income cutoffs (LICOs) defined in Canada?
,Answer:
A measure of inequality, not poverty
Question:
9. When the CHN places emphasis on client strengths, gifts, and assets rather than on a client's needs,
deficits, and susceptibility, what is likely to increase?
Answer:
Resilience
Question:
10. Health education is often used as a strategy for working with vulnerable populations. What would be
strengthened through health education for groups or individuals?
Answer:
Health literacy
Question:
11. Many individuals living with mental health conditions are stigmatized and face isolation and exclusion.
Which determinant of health is the focus for improving these outcomes for individuals dealing with
inequities such as this?
Answer:
Social environment
Question:
12. What are CHNs who advocate for policy changes to expand access to health care for vulnerable
populations focus on eliminating?
Answer:
Health disparities
Question:
13. Which of the following situations is a challenge faced by deinstitutionalized individuals who are living
with mental health conditions?
Answer:
Continuity of care due to limited community-based services
Question:
14. Which one of the following situations is more prevalent in poor neighbourhoods?
Answer:
One-parent families
Question:
15. A community's structure can influence the potential for violence. What factor will decrease the
potential for community violence?
Answer:
Community cohesiveness
, Question:
16. An urban area uses local radio, TV, and newspapers to post ratings of air quality on days when the air
quality is poor. This notification is directed toward the elderly, the very young, and those with chronic
breathing problems. These groups are an example of which type of population?
Answer:
Vulnerable Population
Question:
17. A CHN working in an inner-city clinic in an area with high poverty and unemployment rates
recognizes the need for outreach to pregnant teens for which reason?
Answer:
Teens delay seeking prenatal care
Question:
18. Which of the following situations is addressed by creating opportunities and removing barriers to
achieving the health potential of all people?
Answer:
Health inequity
Question:
19. Which chronic health problem adversely affects the aging experience but is difficult to estimate the
numbers affected or the costs associated with managing it?
Answer:
Incontinence
Question:
20. CHNs practising within the comprehensive school health framework spend significant amounts of time
focusing on the prevention of health issues in schoolchildren at a stage that is early enough to avoid risk
factors arising in the first place. This is an example of which type of prevention?
Answer:
Primordial prevention
Question:
21. What is the most common cancer among Canadian men?
Answer:
Prostate Cancer
Question:
22. What is the single most important factor in the improvement of the health status of women and their
families?
Answer:
The education of women
Question:
23. Being female and having a family history are risk factors for which health concern?
Answer:
Depression
