Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Health Promotion - CORRECT ANSWER - Helping all people achieve their maximum
potential for good health
Community - CORRECT ANSWER - A group of people who are located in a particular space
have shared values and interact with soial systems
Community Nutrition - CORRECT ANSWER - A discppline that strives to prevent disease
and to improve the health nutrition and wellbeing of individuals and groups within communities
policy - CORRECT ANSWER - a course of action chosen by public authorities to adress a
given problem
public health - CORRECT ANSWER - Focuses on protecting and promoting people's health
though the actions of society
Bioterrism - CORRECT ANSWER - the intetional relase of disease causing toxins
microorganism or other toxins
health - CORRECT ANSWER - a state of complete physical, mental and social well being not
merely the abscense ofdiesease disase
health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER - helping all people achieve their maximium
potential for good health
intervention - CORRECT ANSWER - a health promotion activitiy aimed at changing the
behavior of a target audience
, risk factors - CORRECT ANSWER - factors associated with an incrased probability of
acquiring a disease
surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER - an approach to collecting data on a populations health
and nutritional status in which data collection occurs regularly and repeatdly
licensure - CORRECT ANSWER - dietics practionceners are licensed to ensure that only
qualified trained professionals proveide nutrition service provide nutrition service or advice to
individual requiring or seeking nutrition counseling or information nonlicensed practioners may
be subject to prosecution for practicing without a liscense
entrepreneurship - CORRECT ANSWER - creating something of value through the creation
of organization
community needs assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - an evaluation of the community in
terms of its health and nutrition status its needs and the resourcs available to address those
nneeds
health status - CORRECT ANSWER - the condition of a populations or individuals health
including estimates of quality of life and physical and psychosocial functiong
nutritional status - CORRECT ANSWER - the condition of a populations or individuals health
as influenced by the intake and utilization of nutrients and nonnutritient
Target population - CORRECT ANSWER - the population that is teh focus of an assessment
study or intervention
Goals - CORRECT ANSWER - Broad statements of what the activity or program is expected
to accomplish
Objectives - CORRECT ANSWER - statments of outcomes and activities needsed to reach a
goal