PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH EXAM 1 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅field that encompasses many disciplines to promote and protect
health and prevent diseases and disabilities in defined populations and communities
5 pillars of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-epidemiology and disease control
-environmental health
-health promotion and health education
-health administration and policy
-biostatistics
health - Webster dictionary - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the condition of being sound in body, mind and
spirit...freedom from physical disease or pain
health, world health organization - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
wellness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-quality or state of being healthy in body and mind
-balancing many dimensions of life to promote health
continuum
dimensions of wellness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅physical, emotional (mental), intellectual, social,
spiritual
shareware community well-being indext highest - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Massachusetts, Hawaii, New
Jersey, Maryland, New York
shareware community well-being indent lowest - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mississippi, arkansas, New
Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky
, social determinants of health (little or no control) (5) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅heredity, age, disabilities,
health care, environment
social determinants of health (greater control) (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅behaviors, interactions,
cognitions (engaging in physical activity, eating well, managing stress, avoiding destructive habits)
physical activity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles which requires
energy expenditure
exercise - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a type of physical activity that requires planned, structured, and
repetitive bodily movement with the intent of improving or maintaining one or more components of
physical fitness
2nd Edition of PA Guidelines, 2018 Guidelines
for Adults and older adults - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-more movement and sit less
-at least 150-300 min/week of moderate intensity aerobic PA or 75-150min/week of vigorous intensity
aerobic PA, or an equivalent combination of both
-additional health benefits with 300 min/week of moderate intensity aerobic PA, or 150 min/week of
vigorous-intensity PA, or an equivalent of both
-muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days/week
health-related physical fitness components (5) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅aerobic fitness, muscular fitness,
neuromotor/functional fitness, flexibility, body composition
leading causes of death in US, 1900 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea
(infectious diseases)
10 great public health achievements 1900-1999 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅vaccination, motor-vehicle
safety, safer workplaces, control of infectious diseases, declines in deaths from CHD and stroke, safer
and healthier foods, healthier mothers and babies, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water,
recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
ANSWERS
public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅field that encompasses many disciplines to promote and protect
health and prevent diseases and disabilities in defined populations and communities
5 pillars of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-epidemiology and disease control
-environmental health
-health promotion and health education
-health administration and policy
-biostatistics
health - Webster dictionary - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the condition of being sound in body, mind and
spirit...freedom from physical disease or pain
health, world health organization - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
wellness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-quality or state of being healthy in body and mind
-balancing many dimensions of life to promote health
continuum
dimensions of wellness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅physical, emotional (mental), intellectual, social,
spiritual
shareware community well-being indext highest - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Massachusetts, Hawaii, New
Jersey, Maryland, New York
shareware community well-being indent lowest - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mississippi, arkansas, New
Mexico, West Virginia, Kentucky
, social determinants of health (little or no control) (5) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅heredity, age, disabilities,
health care, environment
social determinants of health (greater control) (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅behaviors, interactions,
cognitions (engaging in physical activity, eating well, managing stress, avoiding destructive habits)
physical activity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles which requires
energy expenditure
exercise - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a type of physical activity that requires planned, structured, and
repetitive bodily movement with the intent of improving or maintaining one or more components of
physical fitness
2nd Edition of PA Guidelines, 2018 Guidelines
for Adults and older adults - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-more movement and sit less
-at least 150-300 min/week of moderate intensity aerobic PA or 75-150min/week of vigorous intensity
aerobic PA, or an equivalent combination of both
-additional health benefits with 300 min/week of moderate intensity aerobic PA, or 150 min/week of
vigorous-intensity PA, or an equivalent of both
-muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days/week
health-related physical fitness components (5) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅aerobic fitness, muscular fitness,
neuromotor/functional fitness, flexibility, body composition
leading causes of death in US, 1900 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea
(infectious diseases)
10 great public health achievements 1900-1999 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅vaccination, motor-vehicle
safety, safer workplaces, control of infectious diseases, declines in deaths from CHD and stroke, safer
and healthier foods, healthier mothers and babies, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water,
recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
