Physical Activity and Health - Exam 1 Questions with
Answers (100% Correct Answers)
public health
Ans✅ ✅: field that encompasses many disciplines to promote and protect health and
prevent diseases and disabilities in defined populations and communities
5 pillars of public health
Ans✅ ✅: -epidemiology and disease control
-environmental health
-health promotion and health education
-health administration and policy
-biostatistics
health - Webster dictionary
Ans✅ ✅: the condition of being sound in body, mind and spirit...freedom from physical
disease or pain
health, world health organization
Ans✅ ✅: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
wellness
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,Ans✅ ✅: -quality or state of being healthy in body and mind
-balancing many dimensions of life to promote health
continuum
dimensions of wellness
Ans✅ ✅: physical, emotional (mental), intellectual, social, spiritual
shareware community well-being indext highest
Ans✅ ✅: Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland, New York
shareware community well-being indent lowest
Ans✅ ✅: Mississippi, arkansas, New Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky
social determinants of health (little or no control) (5)
Ans✅ ✅: heredity, age, disabilities, health care, environment
social determinants of health (greater control) (3)
Ans✅ ✅: behaviors, interactions, cognitions (engaging in physical activity, eating well,
managing stress, avoiding destructive habits)
physical activity
Ans✅ ✅: bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles which requires energy
expenditure
exercise
Ans✅ ✅: a type of physical activity that requires planned, structured, and repetitive bodily
movement with the intent of improving or maintaining one or more components of physical
fitness
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, 2nd Edition of PA Guidelines, 2018 Guidelines
for Adults and older adults
Ans✅ ✅: -more movement and sit less
-at least 150-300 min/week of moderate intensity aerobic PA or 75-150min/week of vigorous
intensity aerobic PA, or an equivalent combination of both
-additional health benefits with 300 min/week of moderate intensity aerobic PA, or 150
min/week of vigorous-intensity PA, or an equivalent of both
-muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days/week
health-related physical fitness components (5)
Ans✅ ✅: aerobic fitness, muscular fitness, neuromotor/functional fitness, flexibility, body
composition
leading causes of death in US, 1900
Ans✅ ✅: pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea (infectious diseases)
10 great public health achievements 1900-1999
Ans✅ ✅: vaccination, motor-vehicle safety, safer workplaces, control of infectious
diseases, declines in deaths from CHD and stroke, safer and healthier foods, healthier mothers
and babies, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water, recognition of tobacco use as a
health hazard
leading causes of deaths in US 2018
Ans✅ ✅: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries (in 202 covid was #3)
starting an exercise program
Ans✅ ✅: examine your goals and how an exercise program can fit in your life
-determine specifics of what to include in your exercise program
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Answers (100% Correct Answers)
public health
Ans✅ ✅: field that encompasses many disciplines to promote and protect health and
prevent diseases and disabilities in defined populations and communities
5 pillars of public health
Ans✅ ✅: -epidemiology and disease control
-environmental health
-health promotion and health education
-health administration and policy
-biostatistics
health - Webster dictionary
Ans✅ ✅: the condition of being sound in body, mind and spirit...freedom from physical
disease or pain
health, world health organization
Ans✅ ✅: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
wellness
© 2025 All rights reserved
,Ans✅ ✅: -quality or state of being healthy in body and mind
-balancing many dimensions of life to promote health
continuum
dimensions of wellness
Ans✅ ✅: physical, emotional (mental), intellectual, social, spiritual
shareware community well-being indext highest
Ans✅ ✅: Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland, New York
shareware community well-being indent lowest
Ans✅ ✅: Mississippi, arkansas, New Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky
social determinants of health (little or no control) (5)
Ans✅ ✅: heredity, age, disabilities, health care, environment
social determinants of health (greater control) (3)
Ans✅ ✅: behaviors, interactions, cognitions (engaging in physical activity, eating well,
managing stress, avoiding destructive habits)
physical activity
Ans✅ ✅: bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles which requires energy
expenditure
exercise
Ans✅ ✅: a type of physical activity that requires planned, structured, and repetitive bodily
movement with the intent of improving or maintaining one or more components of physical
fitness
© 2025 All rights reserved
, 2nd Edition of PA Guidelines, 2018 Guidelines
for Adults and older adults
Ans✅ ✅: -more movement and sit less
-at least 150-300 min/week of moderate intensity aerobic PA or 75-150min/week of vigorous
intensity aerobic PA, or an equivalent combination of both
-additional health benefits with 300 min/week of moderate intensity aerobic PA, or 150
min/week of vigorous-intensity PA, or an equivalent of both
-muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days/week
health-related physical fitness components (5)
Ans✅ ✅: aerobic fitness, muscular fitness, neuromotor/functional fitness, flexibility, body
composition
leading causes of death in US, 1900
Ans✅ ✅: pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea (infectious diseases)
10 great public health achievements 1900-1999
Ans✅ ✅: vaccination, motor-vehicle safety, safer workplaces, control of infectious
diseases, declines in deaths from CHD and stroke, safer and healthier foods, healthier mothers
and babies, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water, recognition of tobacco use as a
health hazard
leading causes of deaths in US 2018
Ans✅ ✅: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries (in 202 covid was #3)
starting an exercise program
Ans✅ ✅: examine your goals and how an exercise program can fit in your life
-determine specifics of what to include in your exercise program
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