PBH 101 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
health disparities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Preventable differences in health outcomes related to health
disadvantages linked to social economic and environmental factors
social justice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅view that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social
rights + opportunities
redlining - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend
money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.
Stressful job - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅job insecurity
high demand low control
long hours
work load
lack of support/toxic env.
Links between socioeconomic status and health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-access to healthy food
-physical activity
-healthcare access
-education + health literacy
-social support
Epidemiologic transition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Decline in infectious disease deaths and rise in non-
communicable (chronic) disease deaths
3 ages of epidemiologic transition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1) pestilence and famine
2) receding pandemics
3) manmade & degenerative disease
, Top 3 leading causes of death 1900's vs now - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1900: pneumonia, tuberculosis,
diarrhea and enteritis
2000: heart disease, cancer, stroke
compression of morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ideal of living a long healthy life and shortening the
time spent in decline before death
Atherosclerosis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅condition in which fatty deposits called plaque build up on the
inner walls of the arteries
risk factor for heart disease
hypertension - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅abnormally high blood pressure
Ischemic stroke - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a type of stroke that occurs when the flow of blood to the brain
is blocked
Hemorrhagic stroke - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅occurs when a blood vessel (aneurism) in the brain leaks or
ruptures; also known as a bleed
Cancer deaths and cases in men - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅deaths: lung and bronchus
cases: prostate
cancer deaths and cases in women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅deaths: lung and bronchus
cases: breast cancer
key risk factor for prostate cancer - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅old age
lung cancer risk factors for lung, breast and colorectal cancers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅lung risk factors:
smoking, occupational hazards, second hand smoke, radon exposure
breast cancer risk factors: sedentary lifestyle, high body weight, high alcohol intake, estrogen exposure
health disparities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Preventable differences in health outcomes related to health
disadvantages linked to social economic and environmental factors
social justice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅view that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social
rights + opportunities
redlining - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend
money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.
Stressful job - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅job insecurity
high demand low control
long hours
work load
lack of support/toxic env.
Links between socioeconomic status and health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-access to healthy food
-physical activity
-healthcare access
-education + health literacy
-social support
Epidemiologic transition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Decline in infectious disease deaths and rise in non-
communicable (chronic) disease deaths
3 ages of epidemiologic transition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1) pestilence and famine
2) receding pandemics
3) manmade & degenerative disease
, Top 3 leading causes of death 1900's vs now - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1900: pneumonia, tuberculosis,
diarrhea and enteritis
2000: heart disease, cancer, stroke
compression of morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ideal of living a long healthy life and shortening the
time spent in decline before death
Atherosclerosis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅condition in which fatty deposits called plaque build up on the
inner walls of the arteries
risk factor for heart disease
hypertension - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅abnormally high blood pressure
Ischemic stroke - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a type of stroke that occurs when the flow of blood to the brain
is blocked
Hemorrhagic stroke - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅occurs when a blood vessel (aneurism) in the brain leaks or
ruptures; also known as a bleed
Cancer deaths and cases in men - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅deaths: lung and bronchus
cases: prostate
cancer deaths and cases in women - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅deaths: lung and bronchus
cases: breast cancer
key risk factor for prostate cancer - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅old age
lung cancer risk factors for lung, breast and colorectal cancers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅lung risk factors:
smoking, occupational hazards, second hand smoke, radon exposure
breast cancer risk factors: sedentary lifestyle, high body weight, high alcohol intake, estrogen exposure
