Health 3002 ECU Exam 1
True or False? Children as young as age 3 can show signs of gender dysphoria.
True
True or False? Family planning has allowed women to advance in society, while also resulting in healthier infants, women, and children.
True
True or False? Revisions to FDA policies in 1993 required drug studies to include women of childbearing age.
True
True or False? The Bartholin's glands, located on each side of the vaginal opening, secrete a liquid that lubricates the vaginal tissues.
True
True or false? Gonorrhea and chlamydia are the two most common causes of PID.
True
What does the term medical abortion describe?
a) Abortion performed with pills
Which of the following statements is true?
a) Research from the completed Human Genome Project promises to significantly improve the public health.
What is the main objective of the Family and Medical Leave Act?
a) To provide unpaid medical leave for employees caring for a newborn baby, adopted child, or sick relative
Health promotion is:
a) any planned education, political, social, or other campaign to help a person or population improve or maintain health
Which of the following actions is an example of primary prevention?
b) Eating a nutritious diet
What are the two most popular forms of birth control in the United States?
b) Female sterilization and the birth control pill
Which of the following statements about the Violence Against Women Act is true?
b) It made certain violent crimes committed against women illegal across the country.
Which of the following statements is true?
b) The proportion of the U.S. population older than 65 years has dramatically increased over the past 100 years.
Which of the following statements about women and sex work is true?
b) Women facing intersecting forms of discrimination typically have fewer legal protections and are at greater risk.
The leading cause of preventable infertility is __________
b) chlamydia
Women who breastfeed should:
b) consume a healthy diet and increase their consumption of calcium.
The placenta:
b) serves as a conduit for the return of waste products back to the mother for disposal.
Perimenopause is:
b) the life stage just before menopause.
Gloria Steinem, a feminist, writer, and activist who started the magazine Ms. in 1972, and was most active from the 1960s to the 1990s, would be best categorized as an example of which generation of feminism?
c) Third generation
Gina has been diagnosed with uterine cancer. Her surgeon will perform which of the following to remove only Gina's cervix and uterus?
c) Total hysterectomy
According to Roe v. Wade, each state:
c) cannot outlaw first trimester abortions.
Conception usually occurs in the:
c) upper third of the fallopian tube.
Which of the following statements is true?
d) A woman has completed menopause when her monthly periods cease.
Which of the following statements is true?
d) The only real cure for preeclampsia is delivery.
All of the following infections can be spread non-sexually, except:
d) chlamydia.
The severity of herpes symptoms often vary dramatically:
d) for an individual as time goes by.
STIs are most prevalent among women __________ years of age.
Ages 15-24
Prenatal HIV transmission can occur:
All are correct
Sexual health includes which of the following facets of human interactions?
All of these are correct
Strategies to reduce the health risks associated with hormone replacement include which of the following?
All of these are correct
Which of the following statements regarding comprehensive sex education programs has been found to be true?
All of these are correct
What is the study of patterns of health and disease in populations?
Epidemiology
True or False? Depression is a chronic disease that occurs almost exclusively during or after menopause.
False
True or False? Rates of depression fall sharply for women older than the age of 65 years.
False
True or False? The percentage of women who use a method of contraception during their first sexual intercourse experience has decreased since 1985.
False
