HEALTH DEFINED QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED
A+ 2025/2026
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.
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
eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often look
for alternative providers of care.
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.
,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
5. 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.
,6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
a. Self–breast examination education
b. Yearly mammograms
c. Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
d. Complete mastectomy for breast cancer
ANS: B
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to
identify individuals in an early, detectable stage of the disease process. A
mammogram is a screening tool for breast cancer and thus is considered a
method of secondary prevention.
9. Which of the following represents a method of tertiary prevention?
a. Drunk driving campaign
b. Road blocks for drunk driving
c. Emergency surgery for head trauma after a motor vehicle accident
d. Physical and occupational therapy after a motor
vehicle accident with head trauma ANS: D
, Physical therapy and occupational therapy are considered tertiary prevention.
Tertiary prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and
irreversible. It involves minimizing the effect of disease and disability. The
objective of tertiary prevention is to maximize remaining capacities.
10. In reviewing a person’s medical claims, a nurse realizes that the individual with
moderate persistent asthma has had several emergency department visits and is
not on inhaled steroids as recommended by the NHLBI asthma management
guidelines. The nurse discusses this with the person’s primary care provider. In
this scenario, the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator.
ANS: B
Care managers act to prevent duplication of service and reduce cost. Care
managers base recommendation on reliable data sources such as evidence-
based practices and protocols.
11. During a home visit, a nurse assists an individual to complete an application
for disability services. The nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator.
ANS: A
The advocacy role of the nurse helps individuals obtain what they are entitled
to receive from the health care system, tries to make the system more
responsive to individuals’ community needs, and assists individuals in
developing skills to advocate for themselves.
12. During a home visit, a nurse discusses the dangers of smoking with an
individual. In this scenario the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator.
ANS: D
Health education is a primary prevention technique available to avoid major
causes of disease. Teaching can range from a chance remark to a planned
lesson.
13. A nurse is asked to provide an expert opinion about the development
of an education program for newly diagnosed diabetics. In this
scenario, the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED
A+ 2025/2026
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.
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
eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often look
for alternative providers of care.
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.
,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
5. 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.
,6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
a. Self–breast examination education
b. Yearly mammograms
c. Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
d. Complete mastectomy for breast cancer
ANS: B
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to
identify individuals in an early, detectable stage of the disease process. A
mammogram is a screening tool for breast cancer and thus is considered a
method of secondary prevention.
9. Which of the following represents a method of tertiary prevention?
a. Drunk driving campaign
b. Road blocks for drunk driving
c. Emergency surgery for head trauma after a motor vehicle accident
d. Physical and occupational therapy after a motor
vehicle accident with head trauma ANS: D
, Physical therapy and occupational therapy are considered tertiary prevention.
Tertiary prevention occurs when a defect or disability is permanent and
irreversible. It involves minimizing the effect of disease and disability. The
objective of tertiary prevention is to maximize remaining capacities.
10. In reviewing a person’s medical claims, a nurse realizes that the individual with
moderate persistent asthma has had several emergency department visits and is
not on inhaled steroids as recommended by the NHLBI asthma management
guidelines. The nurse discusses this with the person’s primary care provider. In
this scenario, the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator.
ANS: B
Care managers act to prevent duplication of service and reduce cost. Care
managers base recommendation on reliable data sources such as evidence-
based practices and protocols.
11. During a home visit, a nurse assists an individual to complete an application
for disability services. The nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator.
ANS: A
The advocacy role of the nurse helps individuals obtain what they are entitled
to receive from the health care system, tries to make the system more
responsive to individuals’ community needs, and assists individuals in
developing skills to advocate for themselves.
12. During a home visit, a nurse discusses the dangers of smoking with an
individual. In this scenario the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator.
ANS: D
Health education is a primary prevention technique available to avoid major
causes of disease. Teaching can range from a chance remark to a planned
lesson.
13. A nurse is asked to provide an expert opinion about the development
of an education program for newly diagnosed diabetics. In this
scenario, the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
