HBSE Actual Questions and Correct Answers
Q1
Gestational age is calculated by?
Answer: The first day of the woman's last menstrual cycle
Q2
Risks associated with low birth weight babies include all of the following EXCEPT?
Answer: More likely to die in automobile accidents as teenagers. Actual risks include:
higher risk of death, stroke, asthma, and diabetes. Increased chances they will
develop problems such as brain damage and cerebral palsy. More susceptible to
infectious diseases and inhibited growth
Q3
A structural or physiological abnormality present at birth that causes disability or death is
considered to be?
Answer: A birth defect
Q4
What is another name for Trisomy 21?
Answer: Down syndrome
Q5
Which of the following contributes to the rising cost of health care
Answer: Technological advances, growing number of individuals without health care,
and increasing number of malpractice lawsuits
Q6
The formal term for a baby born three weeks or more before full term is?
Answer: Preterm
, Q7
What legal substance accounts for 20-30 percent of pre-term babies and 10 percent of infant
deaths?
Answer: Tobacco
Q8
A genetic disorder that affects the backbone and spinal cord is called
Answer: Spina bifida
Q9
With regards to pregnancy later in life, social workers often deal with which of the following?
Answer: Infertility, emotional aspects of later parenthood, economic challenges to the
health care system, potential birth defects and other problems for the baby, and
changing societal roles as older people begin raising infants
Q10
Low birth weight and premature birth can be caused by?
Answer: A variety of factors, including smoking, disease, maternal age, drug abuse,
malnutrition, and excessive stress
Q11
A feeling that causes some kind of physiological, behavioral, or cognitive response refers to?
Answer: emotion
Q12
Separation anxiety typically develops at what age?
Answer: 12-18 months
Q13
Infants normally begin to walk without support at what age?
Answer: 11-14 months
Q1
Gestational age is calculated by?
Answer: The first day of the woman's last menstrual cycle
Q2
Risks associated with low birth weight babies include all of the following EXCEPT?
Answer: More likely to die in automobile accidents as teenagers. Actual risks include:
higher risk of death, stroke, asthma, and diabetes. Increased chances they will
develop problems such as brain damage and cerebral palsy. More susceptible to
infectious diseases and inhibited growth
Q3
A structural or physiological abnormality present at birth that causes disability or death is
considered to be?
Answer: A birth defect
Q4
What is another name for Trisomy 21?
Answer: Down syndrome
Q5
Which of the following contributes to the rising cost of health care
Answer: Technological advances, growing number of individuals without health care,
and increasing number of malpractice lawsuits
Q6
The formal term for a baby born three weeks or more before full term is?
Answer: Preterm
, Q7
What legal substance accounts for 20-30 percent of pre-term babies and 10 percent of infant
deaths?
Answer: Tobacco
Q8
A genetic disorder that affects the backbone and spinal cord is called
Answer: Spina bifida
Q9
With regards to pregnancy later in life, social workers often deal with which of the following?
Answer: Infertility, emotional aspects of later parenthood, economic challenges to the
health care system, potential birth defects and other problems for the baby, and
changing societal roles as older people begin raising infants
Q10
Low birth weight and premature birth can be caused by?
Answer: A variety of factors, including smoking, disease, maternal age, drug abuse,
malnutrition, and excessive stress
Q11
A feeling that causes some kind of physiological, behavioral, or cognitive response refers to?
Answer: emotion
Q12
Separation anxiety typically develops at what age?
Answer: 12-18 months
Q13
Infants normally begin to walk without support at what age?
Answer: 11-14 months
