Chapter 3

On October 17, 2006, the population of the United States reached:

300 million

According to the United Nations report for 2005, the life expectancy for women in the U.S. is an average of _________years.

80.0

An important contribution to the global wellness of women with an agenda for women's empowerment was the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in 1995 in:

Beijing, China

Health interventions fall into at least three categories:

Education, prevention, treatment

As of January 2009, the world population was over 7 billion.

False

Persons living to be over 100 years of age are referred to as nonagenarians.

False

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is most rampant in the continent of Asia?

False

The number of centenarians is projected to increase sixteen-fold by the year 2050.

False

The transtheoretical model suggests that you will experience several stages as you attempt to change your health behavior over time and these are: contemplation, contemplation, evaluation, action, maintenance, and termination.

False

The United Nations report for 2005 places the highest life expectancy in years for women in which continent?

North America

According to 2005, United Nations Report the continent with the lowest life expectancy is Africa.

True

According to the 2005 United Nations Report an estimated 600,000 women a year die of complications related to childbirth.

True

Life expectancy tends to be directly tied to income.

True

The conviction that one can successfully execute the behavior required to produce desired results is self-efficacy.

True

The theory of reasoned action promotes three primary concepts that affect behavior change: your attitude toward performing the behavior, standard beliefs about what relevant others think you should do, and your motivation to comply with those others.

True

The U.S. Center for Disease Control reported the leading cause of death in the year 2004, for females was:

heart disease

The six dimensions of wellness are:

physical, emotional, social, occupational, intellectual, and spiritual

The hierarchy of needs are presented in the following order:

physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization.

The progress of the platform adopted at the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women is monitored by:

the U.N. departments of the Division for the Advancement of Woman and the Bureau on the Status of Women

The six primary environmental issue for world wellness are:

water, air, energy, food, toxins, and nature