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Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span – Edelman & Kudzma, 8th Edition – Complete Exam Review Questions with Answers

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This document contains detailed multiple-choice and multiple-response questions with correct answers and rationales from Edelman: Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span (8th Edition). It covers early chapters including Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention, Emerging Populations and Health, and Health Policy and the Delivery System. Each question is aligned with the textbook’s key concepts such as health models, levels of prevention, cultural competence, health disparities, and public health systems. Designed for nursing students, this material supports exam preparation and understanding of health promotion principles across diverse populations.

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Chapter 01: Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention

Edelman: Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 8th Edition



MULTIPLE CHOICE



1. Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive health
care?

a. Clinical model

b. Role performance model

c. Adaptive model

d. Eudaimonistic model



ANS: A

The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as indicative of health.
People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.



DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) REF: p. 3



2. A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider as well as receives
acupuncture. Which model of health does this person likely favor?

a. Clinical model

b. Role performance model

c. Adaptive model

d. Eudaimonistic model




ANS: D

The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating meaning
in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be enough for someone who believes in the

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eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often look for alternative providers
of care.



DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) REF: p. 3



3. A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person‘s potential and
is experienced within a developmental context is known as:

a. growth and development.

b. health.

c. functioning.

d. high-level wellness.




ANS: B

Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person‘s
potential and is experienced within a developmental context.



DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) REF: p. 5



4. Which of the following best describes a client who has an illness?

a. Someone who has well-controlled diabetes

b. Someone with hypercholesterolemia

c. Someone with a headache

d. Someone with coronary artery disease without angina ANS: C



Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the subjective
experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be described as a response
characterized by a mismatch between a person‘s needs and the resources available to meet those
needs. A person can have a disease without feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.



DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyze (Analysis) REF: p. 6

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5. Which US report is considered a landmark document in creating a global approach to health?

a. The 1990 Health Objectives for the Nation: A Midcourse Review

b. Healthy People 2020

c. Healthy People 2000

d. The U.S. Surgeon General Report




ANS: C

Healthy People 2000 and its Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions were landmark documents in which a
consortium of people representing national organizations worked with US Public Health Service officials
to create a more global approach to health.



DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) REF: p. 6



6. Which of the following represents a method of primary prevention?

a. Informational session about healthy lifestyles

b. Blood pressure screening

c. Interventional cardiac catheterization

d. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization




ANS: A

Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and specific
protection and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about healthy lifestyles fits this
definition. Blood pressure screening does not prevent disease, but instead identifies it.



DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) REF: p. 11



7. Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?

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