HSC EXAM 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What's the Life Expectancy in the U.S - Answer -Has doubled over the last 100 years:
47 to 78.8
What happened to the Life Expectancy in 2020? - Answer -In 2020 life expectancy
went down 1.5 years: as big as in WWII
What are the leading causes of death in the U.S? - Answer -1. Diseases of the Heart
2. Cancer (Malignant Neoplasms)
3. Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease
4. Stroke
5. Accidents
What is the Medical model? - Answer -Health status focuses primarily on the individual
and a biological or diseased organ perspective (treatment)
What is the Public Health model? - Answer -Views health and disease as a result of
one's interactions with his or her social and physical environment (prevention)
What are the six dimensions of health? - Answer -Physical Health, Intellectual Health,
Social Health Emotional Health, Spiritual Health ,Environmental Health
What is Physical Health? - Answer -Shape and size of your body, responsiveness of
senses, and your body's ability to function at optimum levels with adequate sleep,
nutrition, and physical activity
What is Intellectual Health? - Answer -The ability to think clearly, reasonably, and
objectively and use brain power effectively to meet life's challenges
What is Social Health? - Answer -The ability to have a broad social network and
maintain satisfying interpersonal relationships
What is Emotional Health? - Answer -Being able to express emotions when appropriate
and control them when not
What is Spiritual Health? - Answer -Creating and expressing meaning and purpose in
your life
What is Environmental Health? - Answer -Understanding how the health of the
environments in which you live can affect you and how you can protect yourself from
your environment's hazards
What are Maslow's hierarchy of needs? - Answer -1. Survival Needs
2. Security Needs
, 3. Social Needs
4. Esteem Needs
5. Self-Actualization
What are examples of Survival Needs? - Answer -food, water, sleep, exercise, sexual
expression
What are examples of Security Needs? - Answer -shelter, safety, protection
What are examples of Social Needs? - Answer -get belonging, acceptance, and
affection from friends and family
What are examples of Esteem Needs? - Answer -want validation and congrats from
other
What is Self-Actualization? - Answer -creativity, spirituality, fulfillment of potential
What's the difference between reacting and responding? - Answer -You put though into
a response but not into a reaction
What is Emotional Intelligence? - Answer -A person's ability to identify, understand,
use, and manage emotional states in positive and constructive ways
What is stress? - Answer -A series of mental and physiological responses and
adaptations to a real or perceived threat to one's well-being
What is distress? - Answer -Stress that can have a detrimental effect on health
What is eustress? - Answer -Stress that presents opportunities for personal growth
What is Acute stress? - Answer -a short-term response to an immediate perceived
threat
What is Chronic stress? - Answer -an ongoing state of physiological arousal in
response to an ongoing or numerous perceived threat
What are the steps to the General Adaptation Syndrome? - Answer -1. Alarm Phase
2. Resistance Phase
3. Exhaustion Phase
What is the Alarm Phase? - Answer -Stressor disrupts body's stability, temporarily
lowering resistance
What is the Resistance Phase? - Answer -Body resources are mobilized to combat
stressor and body maintains a higher level of resistance while trying to return to
homeostasis
What's the Life Expectancy in the U.S - Answer -Has doubled over the last 100 years:
47 to 78.8
What happened to the Life Expectancy in 2020? - Answer -In 2020 life expectancy
went down 1.5 years: as big as in WWII
What are the leading causes of death in the U.S? - Answer -1. Diseases of the Heart
2. Cancer (Malignant Neoplasms)
3. Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease
4. Stroke
5. Accidents
What is the Medical model? - Answer -Health status focuses primarily on the individual
and a biological or diseased organ perspective (treatment)
What is the Public Health model? - Answer -Views health and disease as a result of
one's interactions with his or her social and physical environment (prevention)
What are the six dimensions of health? - Answer -Physical Health, Intellectual Health,
Social Health Emotional Health, Spiritual Health ,Environmental Health
What is Physical Health? - Answer -Shape and size of your body, responsiveness of
senses, and your body's ability to function at optimum levels with adequate sleep,
nutrition, and physical activity
What is Intellectual Health? - Answer -The ability to think clearly, reasonably, and
objectively and use brain power effectively to meet life's challenges
What is Social Health? - Answer -The ability to have a broad social network and
maintain satisfying interpersonal relationships
What is Emotional Health? - Answer -Being able to express emotions when appropriate
and control them when not
What is Spiritual Health? - Answer -Creating and expressing meaning and purpose in
your life
What is Environmental Health? - Answer -Understanding how the health of the
environments in which you live can affect you and how you can protect yourself from
your environment's hazards
What are Maslow's hierarchy of needs? - Answer -1. Survival Needs
2. Security Needs
, 3. Social Needs
4. Esteem Needs
5. Self-Actualization
What are examples of Survival Needs? - Answer -food, water, sleep, exercise, sexual
expression
What are examples of Security Needs? - Answer -shelter, safety, protection
What are examples of Social Needs? - Answer -get belonging, acceptance, and
affection from friends and family
What are examples of Esteem Needs? - Answer -want validation and congrats from
other
What is Self-Actualization? - Answer -creativity, spirituality, fulfillment of potential
What's the difference between reacting and responding? - Answer -You put though into
a response but not into a reaction
What is Emotional Intelligence? - Answer -A person's ability to identify, understand,
use, and manage emotional states in positive and constructive ways
What is stress? - Answer -A series of mental and physiological responses and
adaptations to a real or perceived threat to one's well-being
What is distress? - Answer -Stress that can have a detrimental effect on health
What is eustress? - Answer -Stress that presents opportunities for personal growth
What is Acute stress? - Answer -a short-term response to an immediate perceived
threat
What is Chronic stress? - Answer -an ongoing state of physiological arousal in
response to an ongoing or numerous perceived threat
What are the steps to the General Adaptation Syndrome? - Answer -1. Alarm Phase
2. Resistance Phase
3. Exhaustion Phase
What is the Alarm Phase? - Answer -Stressor disrupts body's stability, temporarily
lowering resistance
What is the Resistance Phase? - Answer -Body resources are mobilized to combat
stressor and body maintains a higher level of resistance while trying to return to
homeostasis
