IPE Exam 1 Questions with complete
solution 2025/2026
Purpose of the interprofessional relationship - correct answer ✔Interprofessional education occurs
when students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective
collaboration and improve health outcomes.
Ecological model foundation - correct answer ✔The most recent focus on the multiplicity of influences
on behavior is called the ecological model.
Using this model or approach for understanding health behavior, it is assumed that no single factor
influences people's behavior; instead, the complex interaction between individuals and an environment
is a process that taken together, influences behavior.
Levels of the Ecological Model - correct answer ✔1) Individual
2) Family/Social group
3) Community/Population group
4) Cultural/Societal group
5) Political/Economic /Structural group
Rio Declaration and importance: - correct answer ✔This declaration states, in part that health
inequities arise from the societal conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age,
referred to as social determinants of health. These include early years' experiences, education,
economic status, employment and decent work, housing and environment, and effective systems of
preventing and treating ill health.
What motivates and influences human behavior - correct answer ✔Individual factors, Societal/Cultural
groups, Socioeconomic and structural factors, Political factors, and environmental factors
Contributors to the behavior of individuals as it relates to Ecological model: - correct answer
✔Individual factors could be motivators, values, developmental stage
, Agency that advocates for public health - correct answer ✔The WHO (World Health Organization)
advocates on the perspective that public health problems are a complex interaction between individuals
and the environment. This interaction influences behavior.
Health-illness continuum overall and ultimate goal: - correct answer ✔We perceive ourselves on the
health and illness continuum. It is a perception not a lifestyle. It focuses on maximizing the potential for
self care.
Disease vs illness: - correct answer ✔disease: deterioration of state, physiology can cause illness
illness: symptoms disease
Disease and Illness are not synonyms because a person can have a disease without feeling ill.
Illness: is the opposite of health, a person's inability to meet their own needs.
Disease: "Failure of a person's adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stresses adequately,
resulting in functional or structural disturbances."
Different models of health - correct answer ✔Clinical Model, Role performance Model, Adaptive
Model, Eudaimonistic Model
Clinical Model - correct answer ✔Absence of signs and symptoms of disease means health. Do not use
preventative services and seeks health when sick
Role performance Model - correct answer ✔Health is the ability to fulfill societal roles
Adaptive Model - correct answer ✔Ability to adapt positively to social, mental and physiological change
in health. Illness occurs when the person becomes maladaptive to changes
solution 2025/2026
Purpose of the interprofessional relationship - correct answer ✔Interprofessional education occurs
when students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective
collaboration and improve health outcomes.
Ecological model foundation - correct answer ✔The most recent focus on the multiplicity of influences
on behavior is called the ecological model.
Using this model or approach for understanding health behavior, it is assumed that no single factor
influences people's behavior; instead, the complex interaction between individuals and an environment
is a process that taken together, influences behavior.
Levels of the Ecological Model - correct answer ✔1) Individual
2) Family/Social group
3) Community/Population group
4) Cultural/Societal group
5) Political/Economic /Structural group
Rio Declaration and importance: - correct answer ✔This declaration states, in part that health
inequities arise from the societal conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age,
referred to as social determinants of health. These include early years' experiences, education,
economic status, employment and decent work, housing and environment, and effective systems of
preventing and treating ill health.
What motivates and influences human behavior - correct answer ✔Individual factors, Societal/Cultural
groups, Socioeconomic and structural factors, Political factors, and environmental factors
Contributors to the behavior of individuals as it relates to Ecological model: - correct answer
✔Individual factors could be motivators, values, developmental stage
, Agency that advocates for public health - correct answer ✔The WHO (World Health Organization)
advocates on the perspective that public health problems are a complex interaction between individuals
and the environment. This interaction influences behavior.
Health-illness continuum overall and ultimate goal: - correct answer ✔We perceive ourselves on the
health and illness continuum. It is a perception not a lifestyle. It focuses on maximizing the potential for
self care.
Disease vs illness: - correct answer ✔disease: deterioration of state, physiology can cause illness
illness: symptoms disease
Disease and Illness are not synonyms because a person can have a disease without feeling ill.
Illness: is the opposite of health, a person's inability to meet their own needs.
Disease: "Failure of a person's adaptive mechanisms to counteract stimuli and stresses adequately,
resulting in functional or structural disturbances."
Different models of health - correct answer ✔Clinical Model, Role performance Model, Adaptive
Model, Eudaimonistic Model
Clinical Model - correct answer ✔Absence of signs and symptoms of disease means health. Do not use
preventative services and seeks health when sick
Role performance Model - correct answer ✔Health is the ability to fulfill societal roles
Adaptive Model - correct answer ✔Ability to adapt positively to social, mental and physiological change
in health. Illness occurs when the person becomes maladaptive to changes
