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WorksheetsPublic Health and Prevention Quiz Section 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the main goal of secondary prevention?
To prevent diseases before they occur
To eliminate all diseases
To reduce the impact of a disease or injury that has already occurred
To promote health through exercise
What does public health primarily focus on?
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
Quaternary prevention
Primary prevention
What is the ecological approach in public health?
Ignoring environmental factors
Focusing on individual health only
Viewing individuals as embedded within their environment
Viewing individuals as separate from their environment
Which factors indicate socioeconomic status in Western countries?
Age and gender
Diet and exercise
Education, occupation, and income/wealth
Height and weight
Which of the following is NOT a preventable and treatable condition with disparities between majority and minority Americans?
Asthma
Hypertension
Common cold
Diabetes
What has been partially attributed to the increase in accidental deaths from unintentional drug poisonings?
Increase in diabetes
Increase in opioid overdoses
Increase in car accidents
Increase in heart disease
What are the three points of the epidemiological triangle?
Host, disease, and cure
Environment, disease, and cure
Agent, host, and environment
Agent, disease, and cure
What is the focus of the PRECEDE model?
Changing environmental conditions
Developing new medications
Building new hospitals
Improving health by changing individuals’ behavior through education
What is one major criticism of the health promotion movement?
It focuses too much on environmental factors
It is too expensive
It ignores individual behavior
It places accountability for poor health on the individual
What did the Whitehall study demonstrate?
People who exercise less have better health
People with higher income have worse health
People with more education have worse health
People who are structurally or environmentally disadvantaged are more likely to have poor health
What does the base of the Health Impact Pyramid address?
Dietary supplements
Individual exercise routines
Medical treatments
Socioeconomic determinants of health
What year was a turning point for health promotion according to Green?
1980
1974
2022
1991
What does the acronym PRECEDE stand for?
Predisposing, Reducing, and Enabling Constructs in the Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation
Preventing, Reducing, and Eliminating Constructs in the Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation
Predisposing, Reinforcing, and Enabling Constructs in the Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation
Promoting, Reinforcing, and Enabling Constructs in the Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation
What did the President’s Cancer Panel report in 2010 emphasize?
The role of diet in cancer prevention
The need for more hospitals
The underestimated burden of environmentally induced cancers
The importance of exercise in cancer prevention
What was a focus of health promotion in the 1980s?
Environmentally targeted interventions
Developing new medications
Building new hospitals
Focusing solely on individual behavior
