Chapter 3 Quiz: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

All of the following are goals of Healthy People 2020 Except: - Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. - Ensure that hospitals everywhere have most advanced technology available. - Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. - Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages. - Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.

Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.

Which of the following actions is an example of secondary prevention?

Blood pressure, cholesterol or colorectal cancer screenings.

Which of the following actions is an example of primary prevention?

Eating a nutritious diet.

What is the study of patterns of health and disease in populations?

Epidemiology.

All of the following modifiable risk factors EXCEPT: - Hypertension (high blood pressure) - Tobacco Use - Raised blood glucose (diabetes) - Family history

Family history.

Major public health achievement of the 20th century include:

Major public health achievement of the 20th century include

Which of the following actions is an example of tertiary prevention?

Rehabilitation to restore function lost after a stroke.

Health disparities refer to:

Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequalities in health status (including life expectancy, morbidity, and disability) and access to health care.

Which lifestyle behavior-related causes of death kill the most people in the United States?

Tobacco use, poor diet, and inactivity.

Health promotion is:

any planned educational, political, social, or other campaign to help a person or population improve or maintain health.