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HLTH Test 1 Study Guide

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T/F: Health surveys can be used to measure health or health status.
True
T/F: A person's age is considered a modifiable risk factor for disease.
False
During the 1850s to 1950s, the primary focus of the public health effort in the United States was to ____ .
Control infectious diseases
An approach to health that focuses on balancing the dimensions of a person's life through the adoption of health enhancing behaviors is known as _____.
Wellness
The primary difference between the health education/promotion profession and other helping professions is ____.
The use of the teaching-learning process by the health education/profession
Which of the following steps is generally found in most planning models?
Needs assessment
According to the best available estimates, behavioral patterns impact what portion of the population's early death?
40%
T/F: The first set of health Objectives for the Nation (Healthy People) provided a blueprint for health promotion and disease prevention strategies.
True
T/F: Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) is often described as the most comprehensive indicator of health and disease in a society.
False
T/F: The ultimate goal of the health education/promotion profession is to improve life.
True
What are the 3 levels of prevention? What does each one mean?
Primary - No disease
Secondary - Disease, No symptoms
Tertiary - Diagnosed Disease, No disability
Wearing a safety belt is an example of which level of preventions?
Primary prevention
Providing education to a diabetic on how to use his/her insulin is an example of which level of prevention?
Tertiary prevention
The focus of health promotion and disease prevention efforts should be directed toward ____.
modifiable risk factors
What rate would be used as evidence for the health status of a given population?
Crude Death Rate
What 4 professions/disciplines support health education/promotion?
1. Health Education Specialist
2. Epidemiology
3. Health Promotion Manager
4. Case Manager
T/F: Earliest man believed that disease and infirmity were caused by the influence or magic or malevolent spirits that inhabited streams, trees, animals, the earth, and the air.
True
T/F: The Greeks emphasized instruction related to philosophy, athletics, and theology in order for individuals to maintain balance.
True
T/F: The Middle Ages can be characterized as a time of health advancements.
False
T/F: The years from 1875 to 1900 are known as the bacteriological period of public health.
True
T/F: Health boards first began to provide oversight on the sewage system, cemeteries, and professional activity of physicians during the 18th century.
False
T/F: The history of the U.S. Public Health System dates back to 1798 when Congress passed the Marine Hospital Service Act.
True
T/F: Horace Mann, whose writings and speeches helped to promote the importance of education in general, was believed to be the first spokesperson for teaching health in schools.
True
The history of health education as an emerging profession is just over ______ years old.
100
Excavated sites, dating back 4000 years, indicate that bathrooms and drains were common in _____.
India
The _____ is the earliest written record concerning public health.
Code of Hammurabi
The staff and serpent symbol, which also marked early Greek temples of healing, is known as ____.
Caduceus
During what era were criminals dissected alive to improve medical knowledge?
Roman
Which great epidemic during the Middle Ages resulted in the most discrimination and isolation of its victims?
Leprosy
During the Renaissance period, much surgery and dentistry was performed by ____.
Barbers
Who proposed the germ theory of disease?
Louis Pasteur
Which act provided support for state health departments and their programs, including the development of sanitary facilities and improvements in maternal and child health?
Social Security Act
The first national effort to promote the health of citizens through a more preventative approach took place in what country?
Canada
What happened during World War 1 that provided the impetus for widespread acceptance of school health education as a field in its own right?
Too many young men were unfit for service
Which is not a reason listed in the chapter for why the traditional family is becoming less and less common?
High rates of marriage
Health education specialists working in this setting will need to be able to create a logical scope and sequence to health content units.
Schools
The CHES process, as currently configured, is ____.
endorsed by prevention specialists
The Affordable Care Act has increased opportunities for health education specialists by _____.
promoting wellness in the workplace
Being macrolevel-oriented means facilitating health education interventions at the ______ level.
community
_______ as opposed to simply increasing longevity is becoming a prevalent goal of U.S. health care consumers.
Enhancing the quality of life
In the health care setting, health education specialists might be involved in ______.
conducting one-on-one patient education
T/F: The final judge of the success of health education is whether or not a person's length of life has increased.
False
T/F: Benefits have been seen when health education specialists combine forces with people from other professional disciplines, such as ecology, economics, and anthropologists.
True
T/F: The changing demographic patterns in the United States are largely a result of the higher birth rates of single mothers.
False (key word: "LARGELY")
T/F: Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child programs should be able to help address violence, unintentional injuries, and unintentional pregnancies.
True
T/F: Community health interventions allow the health education specialists to focus on reaching defined populations.
True
Which action was not included in Seffrin's address on the direction health education must take to reach its potential?
Join a professional health organization
T/F: Caile Spear believes public health professionals focusing on prevention need to unify, potentially under a common credential.
True
T/F: The traditional family (two parents and their children) is again becoming common practice.
False
The first national document that presented a comprehensive national agenda for prevention presented objectives in three main areas. The areas include ____.
Presentive Services, Health Protection, Health Promotion
To address the many health problems facing U.S. cities in the late 1700s, some cities developed health ____.
boards
Screenings are used by which level of prevention?
secondary
Health education specialists can assist both patients and medical organizations by _____.
helping patients understand their options
The use of vaccines is an example of which level of prevention?
Primary
Which is one of the eight new content areas that the Committee on Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century recommended should be added to the curricula of individuals studying to practice public health?
Genomics
Worksite health promotion programs are popular because employers want to _____.
Increase productivity
The determinants of health include which domain?
Health Services
In the United States the first major recognition of the importance of lifestyle in promoting health and well-being came in the form of a governmental publication titled _____.
"Healthy People"
The number of deaths per 100,000 population is known as ______.
The Mortality Rate
The federal government's 1980 document that provided a blueprint of the health promotion and disease prevention strategy is known as _____ .
"Promoting Health/Preventing Disease Objectives for a Nation"
When developing school health curriculum, the CDC recommends emphasizing six key risk behaviors because the behaviors _____ .
are the leading causes of death and disability
Among her many accomplishments, Miss Sally Lucas Jean was ultimately responsible for ______.
changing the name from "hygiene education" to "health education"
Epidemiology is _____.
the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases in a specific population.
Who was the secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education in 1837 and repeatedly called for mandatory programs of hygiene education for students?
Horace Mann
During the 1700s the "miasmas theory" held that
disease was caused when vapors rising from rotting refuse were inhaled.
"Water casting" was a _____.
means of diagnosing a patient's condition by examining the urine for changes in color.
The ability to assess strengths of communities in building a plan to assist them in meeting their health needs is a skill needed among health education specialists working in _____.
Public/community health
Health education specialists working in this setting will need to be able to conduct fitness assessments.
Worksites
The Greek physician credited as being the first epidemiologist and the father of modern medicine was _____.
Hippocrates
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