Communicable diseases remain a concern in the 21st century because they are the primary cause for:
Differences in health among different populations defines:
True or False? Individuals with lower socioeconomic status have poorer health status.
True or False? Choosing to eat wisely, regularly wearing a safety belt, and visiting the physician are examples of community/public health activities.
Actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people can be healthy can occur defines
The main reason for corporate involvement in community health is due to
True or False? Philanthropic foundations spend most of their efforts on fundraising.
Agencies that are funded primarily through tax dollars are referred to as
The largest and most visible international health agency is the
The power to arrest someone who refuses to undergo treatment for a communicable disease lies with
Morbidity rates measure:
True or False? An unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event in a particular population defines a pandemic.
True or False? Sometimes notifiable diseases are not reported to the local health department because patients recover without a diagnosis being confirmed.
How might health workers use U.S. Census data?
When mapping community capacity, the least accessible assets are:
True or False? A trial run of an intervention is a pilot test.
True or False? Evaluation that is done during the planning and implementing processes is summative evaluation.
True or False? Those who the health promotion program is intended to serve are the priority population
For community organizing/building and health promotion programming efforts to be successful, people must:
True or False? In using a generic approach for community organizing, the first step in the process is recognizing the issue.
True or False? Community capacity is the characteristics of communities that affect their ability to identify, mobilize, and address social and public health problems.
True or False? Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of mortality in children.
True or False? Nearly all maternal deaths occur in developing countries.
The process of determining the preferred number and spacing of children in one’s family and choosing the appropriate means to achieve this preference defines:
The overwhelming majority of all abortions are performed on:
Health screenings, treatment for medical conditions, and education are important components of:
True or False? The percentage of adults with diagnosed diabetes has decreased significantly over the past 20 years.
True or False? The percentage of children younger than 18 living in a single-parents family has been decreasing ever since 1965.
True or False? Mortality during adult years of life are primarily characterized by chronic diseases stemming from poor health behaviors and poor lifestyle choices made during the earlier years of life.
True or False? When looking at violence and behaviors of high school students, females are more likely than males to get in a fight or carry a weapon.
Most of the physical threat to health for adolescents and young adults stems from
A myth of common ancestry is a main feature of
People born in and owing allegiance to a country other than the one in which they live are referred to as:
Set 2
A myth of common ancestry is a main feature of:
Most of the physical threat to health for adolescents and young adults stems from:
A teenage mother is at greater risk for pregnancy complications than a mother older than 20.
The percentage of children younger than 18 living in a single-parent family has been decreasing ever since 1965.
Today, the majority of Americans are referred to as white, non-Hispanic.
A community is a group of people who have common characteristics.
The number of events that occur in a given population in a given period of time is a:
Actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people can be healthy can occur is termed:
There has been no evidence of community health activities dating back over 1,000 years.
Self-reported behavior risk data on adults is collected through the:
Raising money to fund their programs, providing education, providing service to those affected, and advocating are the basic objectives of:
Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, drew attention to the plight of immigrants in the meat packing industry.
The average number of years a person from a specific cohort is projected to live from a given point in time is his or her life expectancy.
Health education and health promotion are terms that can be used interchangeably.
True or False? Sleeping on the back rather than the stomach greatly increases the risk of SIDS among healthy, full-term infants.
An epidemic curve depicting a distribution of cases traceable to multiple sources of exposure is a:
True or False? Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of mortality in children.
A disease that lasts three months or less is a chronic disease.
The contributions of religious groups to community health have been:
The population with the lowest high school completion rates is:
True or False? Sometimes notifiable diseases are not reported to the local health department because patients recover without a diagnosis being confirmed.
Over the last several decades, the death rate for adolescents and young adults has significantly increased.
The Shattuck report marked the beginning of the:
An example of a quasi-governmental health organization is:
A process by which an intervention is planned to help meet the needs of a priority population is:
Studies that seek to describe the extent of disease in regard to person, time, and place are:
The means by which structure and organization are given to the planning process are:
Historically, communities have always taken aggressive actions to deal with health issues.
Teenagers who become pregnant and have a child are more likely than their peers who are not mothers to:
Black, non-Hispanic Americans have an infant mortality rate that is more than two times that of white American infants.
True or False? The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is an institute under the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
School connectedness is an example of:
Community health concerns of the 21st century include:
An infant death is the death of a child younger than:
The process for people to gain mastery over their lives and the lives of their communities is social capital.
True or False? The two factors affecting community health that need special attention when dealing with health problems of adolescents and young adults are community organizing and physical factors.
Choosing to eat wisely, wearing a safety belt, and visiting the physician are examples of community/public health activities.
The process of collecting and analyzing information to develop an understanding of the issues, resources, and constraints of the priority population to better develop a health promotion program is:
People born in and owing allegiance to a country other than the one in which they live are referred to as:
True or False? Leading causes of death in the United States today are communicable diseases.