HLT 450 URI Exam 1 Questions With
Complete Solutions
/.What is the WHO definition of health? - Answer-✅"A state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (1947)
/.How does the Ottawa Charter define 'health promotion'? - Answer-✅"health
considered less as an abstract state, more as means to an end which can be expressed
in functional terms as a resource which permits people to lead an individually, socially,
and economically productive life" (1986)
/.Historically what was killing us? - Answer-✅Infectious diseases (now more controlled)
/.Now what is killing us? - Answer-✅Chronic diseases
/.What is the U.S. ranked in crude death rate? - Answer-✅89th (out of 225 countries)
/.What is the U.S. ranked in life expectancy? - Answer-✅50th (out of 223 countries)
/.Do men or women have a higher life expectancy? - Answer-✅Women
/.Morbidity - Answer-✅Incidence of a specific notifiable disease
/.Mortality - Answer-✅Death rate
/.What really kills us? - Answer-✅- Tobacco
- Poor diet
- Physical inactivity
- Alcohol
/.Contributors to mortality - Answer-✅- Most causes of death are behavior related
- Social / environment factors may play a role
- SES
- Health care
- Air / water quality
/.Hypokinetic disease - Answer-✅Disease associated with a lack of exercise
- Hypo = low or less
- Kinetic = movement
, /.Leading causes of death in 1900 - Answer-✅- Pneumonia (11.8%)
- Tuberculosis (11.3%)
- Diarrhea and enteritis (8.3%)
- Heart disease (6.2%)
- Liver disease (5.2%)
- Injuries (4.2%)
- Cancer (3.7%)
- Senility (2.9%)
- Diptheria (2.3%)
/.Leading causes of death (2007) - Answer-✅1. Heart disease
2. Cancer
3. Stroke
4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
5. Accidents
6. Alzheimer's disease
7. Diabetes mellitus
8. Flu and pneumonia
9. Kidney disease
10. Septicemia
/.Health disparities - Answer-✅Differences in health outcomes among groups
/.Geographic disparities - Answer-✅Neighborhood and health disparities
- Environmental contaminations
- Crime rates
- Green spaces
- Transportation
- High quality foods (fresh fruits and veggies)
/.Sexual orientation - Answer-✅- GLBT youth are 2-3 times more likely to attempt
suicide
- Lesbians less likely to get preventative services for cancer
- Gay men are at a higher risk for HIV and other STDs, esp. communities of color
- Lesbians and bisexual females are more likely to be overweight or obese
/.Income - Answer-✅- Influences access to material resources, health services
- May change over time, and not reflect all sources of income, and not reflect changes
in cost of living across communities
- Wealth: includes additional material resources like home, possessions, inheritance
/.Race/ethnic - Answer-✅- Cannot be explained by biological and genetic
characteristics or even by socioeconomic factors alone
- Differences in SEP contribute to racial/ethnic disparities
Complete Solutions
/.What is the WHO definition of health? - Answer-✅"A state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (1947)
/.How does the Ottawa Charter define 'health promotion'? - Answer-✅"health
considered less as an abstract state, more as means to an end which can be expressed
in functional terms as a resource which permits people to lead an individually, socially,
and economically productive life" (1986)
/.Historically what was killing us? - Answer-✅Infectious diseases (now more controlled)
/.Now what is killing us? - Answer-✅Chronic diseases
/.What is the U.S. ranked in crude death rate? - Answer-✅89th (out of 225 countries)
/.What is the U.S. ranked in life expectancy? - Answer-✅50th (out of 223 countries)
/.Do men or women have a higher life expectancy? - Answer-✅Women
/.Morbidity - Answer-✅Incidence of a specific notifiable disease
/.Mortality - Answer-✅Death rate
/.What really kills us? - Answer-✅- Tobacco
- Poor diet
- Physical inactivity
- Alcohol
/.Contributors to mortality - Answer-✅- Most causes of death are behavior related
- Social / environment factors may play a role
- SES
- Health care
- Air / water quality
/.Hypokinetic disease - Answer-✅Disease associated with a lack of exercise
- Hypo = low or less
- Kinetic = movement
, /.Leading causes of death in 1900 - Answer-✅- Pneumonia (11.8%)
- Tuberculosis (11.3%)
- Diarrhea and enteritis (8.3%)
- Heart disease (6.2%)
- Liver disease (5.2%)
- Injuries (4.2%)
- Cancer (3.7%)
- Senility (2.9%)
- Diptheria (2.3%)
/.Leading causes of death (2007) - Answer-✅1. Heart disease
2. Cancer
3. Stroke
4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
5. Accidents
6. Alzheimer's disease
7. Diabetes mellitus
8. Flu and pneumonia
9. Kidney disease
10. Septicemia
/.Health disparities - Answer-✅Differences in health outcomes among groups
/.Geographic disparities - Answer-✅Neighborhood and health disparities
- Environmental contaminations
- Crime rates
- Green spaces
- Transportation
- High quality foods (fresh fruits and veggies)
/.Sexual orientation - Answer-✅- GLBT youth are 2-3 times more likely to attempt
suicide
- Lesbians less likely to get preventative services for cancer
- Gay men are at a higher risk for HIV and other STDs, esp. communities of color
- Lesbians and bisexual females are more likely to be overweight or obese
/.Income - Answer-✅- Influences access to material resources, health services
- May change over time, and not reflect all sources of income, and not reflect changes
in cost of living across communities
- Wealth: includes additional material resources like home, possessions, inheritance
/.Race/ethnic - Answer-✅- Cannot be explained by biological and genetic
characteristics or even by socioeconomic factors alone
- Differences in SEP contribute to racial/ethnic disparities
