Public Health Test 4

Which of the following statements is not true of minority health?

African Americans and whites of the same socioeconomic status are equally healthy or unhealthy.

Cigarette smoking is known to be a major cause of death and disability from all of the following diseases except:

Alzheimers Disease

Which of the following diseases is not known to be -- in part at least -- preventable by practicing healthy behavior?

Arthritis

The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act permits all of the following actions by the FDA except:

Ban of sale of all cigarettes

Which of the following statements is not true about smoking?

Congress has passed a law banning smoking in all public places.

Which of the following was not a response to the Eighteenth amendment?

Decrease In Organized Crime

The model that describes five levels of influence on health behavior (interpersonal, intrapersonal, institutional, community, and public policy) is called which of the following:

Ecological Model

The Master Settlement Agreement included all of the following provisions except:

FDA regulation of nicotine in cigarettes

Comprehensive sex education in schools is ineffective in reducing rates of adolescent pregnancy.

False

Laws requiring childhood vaccines have little effect on deaths from infectious diseases.

False

Nicotine is a carcinogen.

False

The risk of which of the following infectious diseases is most significantly affected by behavioral factors?

HIV

Which of the following models describes perceived severity, susceptibility, barriers and benefits?

Health Belief Model

High SES is not associated with which of the following factors that affect health behavior?

High stress

Poor diet and inactivity contribute to all of the following causes of death except

Infectious Disease

Which of the following statements was not true of the San Francisco AIDS prevention program?

It led to a permanent reduction in HIV prevalence.

Which of the following statements is true of regulation as a way of changing people's behavior?

Laws requiring premarital screening for HIV infection have little effect in protecting women and children from being infected.

Which of the following statements about stress is not true?

Major stresses are more damaging to health than daily hassles.

Which of the following leading actual causes of death has most declined in importance over the past century?

Microbial Agents

All of the following factors have contributed to governments' willingness to oppose tobacco companies except:

Moral disapproval of smoking

A program that is effective in getting people to change their health-related behavior must convey all of the following messages except:

My friends would not support these new behaviors

Which of the following statements is true?

Nonsmoking spouses of smokers have an increased risk of lung cancer.

Which of the following statements about socioeconomic status is not true?

People with low SES are to blame for their poor health

Poor people have higher mortality rates for all the following reasons except:

Poor nutrition

All of the following individuals played a role in forcing the tobacco industry to agree to the Master Settlement Agreement except:

RJ Reynolds

Socioeconomic status is determined by all of the following except:

Race

Which of the following interventions has proven most successful in reducing the prevalence of smoking among young people?

Raising Cigarette Taxes

Which of the following has not been a response to the "war on drugs"?

Reduced Rates of drug use

QUIZ14 The cause of the greatest number of deaths annually in the United States is:

Smoking Related Diseases

QUIZ 13 The most important predictor of overall health is:

Socioeconomic Status

Which of the following statements is not true about health promotion and disease prevention programs?

Successful programs will be equally successful for all at-risk groups.

Which of the following educational efforts by the government has been shown to significantly reduce the prevalence of the targeted behavior?

Surgeon General's 1964 Tobacco Report

All of the following factors contributed to the increasing prevalence of smoking in the first half of the 20th century except:

The Surgeon General's Report

Which of the following statements is not true of the "war on drugs"?

The fact that drugs are illegal does not discourage most people from using them

Which of the following statements is not true about prevalence of smoking?

The prevalence of cigarette smoking in the United States has increased since the 1960s.

Recent thinking about promotion of health behavior focuses on which of the following factors?

The social environment

Which of the following statements is not true of deaths caused by the leading actual causes?

They are genetic

All of the following factors have contributed to a reduction in the prevalence of smoking except:

Tobacco companies' ads that smoking is an "adult" choice

Which of the following actual causes of death is least under the control of individual behavior?

Toxic Agents

The model that describes five stages of change of health behavior (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance) is called which of the following:

Transtheoretical Model

Cigarette advertising on television was banned in agreement with the Federal Communications Commission.

True

Cigarette companies purposefully manipulate nicotine levels in order to make cigarettes more addictive to consumers.

True

Which of the following statements is true of education as a way of changing people's behavior?

Which of the following statements is true of education as a way of changing people's behavior?

Question 13

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Question 14

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Question 3

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