BYU HEALTH FINAL EXAM 041 ACTUAL
EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⫸ What was the women's health movement Answer: 1st wave:
Suffragists and abolitionists, late 19th cent.
2nd wave: Often political injustices and inequalities, 60's/70s
3rd wave: Examining all areas of society from feminists perspective
⫸ Elizabeth Blackwell Answer: Responsible for the opening of several
medical schools for women in the mid-1800's
⫸ Clara Barton Answer: Led national effort to organize a nursing corps
to care for the war's wounded and sick
⫸ Margaret Sanger Answer: Opened the nations 1st birth control clinic
in Brooklyn and was arrested for violating federal ban on contraception
⫸ Women and the right to vote Answer: In 1920, the 19th amendment,
which guaranteed women the right to vote was ratified
⫸ What are some of the "top ten" issues for women's health globally
according to Dr. Bustreo from the WHO? Answer: 1. Violence
2. Reproductive health
,3. Being young -- early marriage, body image
4. Cancer -- breast and cervical
5. Mental Health
6. Maternal Health
7. HIV
8. Non-communicable disease
9. Getting Older
10. STI's
⫸ Global threats to women's health (particularly in developing
countries...) Answer: - Poverty, underweight and malnutrition,
HIV/AIDS, violence, and maternal morbidity and mortality.
- Domestic violence, female genital mutilation, honor killings, and
trafficking
⫸ Examples of gender-related health differences Answer: depression,
heart disease, drug reactions, pain, and alcohol
⫸ Gender-based research Answer: Studies that examine the similarities
and differences between men and women to learn more about the causes
of disease and responses to medications in these populations
⫸ ORWH Answer: The government's focal point for women's
biomedical research
, ⫸ The coordinating agency for all women's health initiatives throughout
the DHHS Answer: DHHS finds and addresses inequities in research,
healthcare services, and education that have places the health of woman
at risk
⫸ WWII, women, & employment Answer: - 12 million women were
working when the United States entered the war; by the time war ended
18 million were employed
- Post war, women were strongly pressured to return to being
homemakers
⫸ What are the Sustainable Development Goals? Answer: Countries
adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure
prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda.
⫸ What were the MDGs? Which dealt with women's health? Answer:
The MDG's were global goals toward lowering global poverty,
improving health, reaching environmental sustainability, and other
issues by 2015
1. Improving maternal health
2. Reaching gender equality
⫸ Intuitive eating: core principles Answer: - Unconditional permission
to eat
- Eating for emotional rather than physical reasons
EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⫸ What was the women's health movement Answer: 1st wave:
Suffragists and abolitionists, late 19th cent.
2nd wave: Often political injustices and inequalities, 60's/70s
3rd wave: Examining all areas of society from feminists perspective
⫸ Elizabeth Blackwell Answer: Responsible for the opening of several
medical schools for women in the mid-1800's
⫸ Clara Barton Answer: Led national effort to organize a nursing corps
to care for the war's wounded and sick
⫸ Margaret Sanger Answer: Opened the nations 1st birth control clinic
in Brooklyn and was arrested for violating federal ban on contraception
⫸ Women and the right to vote Answer: In 1920, the 19th amendment,
which guaranteed women the right to vote was ratified
⫸ What are some of the "top ten" issues for women's health globally
according to Dr. Bustreo from the WHO? Answer: 1. Violence
2. Reproductive health
,3. Being young -- early marriage, body image
4. Cancer -- breast and cervical
5. Mental Health
6. Maternal Health
7. HIV
8. Non-communicable disease
9. Getting Older
10. STI's
⫸ Global threats to women's health (particularly in developing
countries...) Answer: - Poverty, underweight and malnutrition,
HIV/AIDS, violence, and maternal morbidity and mortality.
- Domestic violence, female genital mutilation, honor killings, and
trafficking
⫸ Examples of gender-related health differences Answer: depression,
heart disease, drug reactions, pain, and alcohol
⫸ Gender-based research Answer: Studies that examine the similarities
and differences between men and women to learn more about the causes
of disease and responses to medications in these populations
⫸ ORWH Answer: The government's focal point for women's
biomedical research
, ⫸ The coordinating agency for all women's health initiatives throughout
the DHHS Answer: DHHS finds and addresses inequities in research,
healthcare services, and education that have places the health of woman
at risk
⫸ WWII, women, & employment Answer: - 12 million women were
working when the United States entered the war; by the time war ended
18 million were employed
- Post war, women were strongly pressured to return to being
homemakers
⫸ What are the Sustainable Development Goals? Answer: Countries
adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure
prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda.
⫸ What were the MDGs? Which dealt with women's health? Answer:
The MDG's were global goals toward lowering global poverty,
improving health, reaching environmental sustainability, and other
issues by 2015
1. Improving maternal health
2. Reaching gender equality
⫸ Intuitive eating: core principles Answer: - Unconditional permission
to eat
- Eating for emotional rather than physical reasons
