HLTH 290 UNIT 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026

HLTH 290 UNIT 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026 who proposed germ theory? - Answers Louis Pasteur why do people choose a career in hlth education/promotion? - Answers - commitment to improve hlth - providing service to others Truman State mission statement -- prepare leaders by bridging competency and standard education - Answers False - Truman wants EXCELLENCE! how did early humans first learn about hlth issues - Answers trial and error medicare and medicaid - Answers bills passed in 1965 percent of health determined by behavioral factors - Answers 40% When a disease outbreak is over a large geographic area like a continent, (or just wide geo areas) it is considered - Answers pandemic the Greeks emphasized - Answers philosophy, athletics, theology socioecological model - Answers behaviors are influenced by interdependent domains educating a diabetic on how to use their insulin - Answers tertiary prevention freedom philosophy/personal freedom - Answers john seffrin what is included in the social determinants of health? - Answers social and comm context crude rates and adjusted rates are expressed in terms of total pop. - Answers True water casting - Answers means of determining diagnosis based on urine color changes Canadian report stressing importance of lifestyle and environmental factors - Answers A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians (Lalonde Report) Health boards first began to provide oversight on the sewage system, cemeteries, and professional activity of physicians during the 18th century - Answers False NOT an overarching goal of Healthy People 2020 - Answers Critical research derryberry... - Answers predicted how the shift from contagious -- chronic conditions would impact education Public Health Timeline -- Minoans ( BCE) - Hippocrates (500-0BCE) - Black Plague (500-1500) Renaissance (after middle ages ), bacteriological period (), reform phase () - Answers the american journal of health education is published by the American PH Association - Answers False integrated behavioral ecological philosophy - Answers eclectic philosophy body of knowledge for health edu - Answers sociology, comm development, education, epi, medicine, psych most comprehensive hlth indicator - Answers life expectancy status of a specific group of ppl to promote hlth - Answers comm hlth limitations of prevention - Answers - bio -tech -ethical -econ what is health education? - Answers a combination of planned learning experiences using evidence-based practices or sound theories 4 modifiable behaviors - Answers Lack of physical activity Poor nutrition Tobacco use Excessive alcohol consumption example of hlth survey - Answers youth risk behavior surveillance survey the intersecting domains and their influence - Answers Genetics = 30% Individual behavior = 40% Social circumstances = 15% environmental/physical influences = 5% Health services = 10% social determinants - Answers Economic stability Education access/quality Social and community context Healthcare access/quality Built environment Smith Papyri (1600CE) - Answers early surgical techniques Code of Hammurabi - Answers health practices and physician's fees At these times, priests served as medicine man what were egyptians known for? - Answers cleanliness hygeia and panacea - Answers prevention + treatment what did Antonie van Leeuwenhoak do - Answers first to observe bacteria - discovered microscope Chadwick's 1842 report- - Answers Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Populations of Great Britain what did Shattuck's Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts promote? - Answers promoted no alcohol use, hygiene, etc