PPN 302 - MIDTERM FINAL TEST 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Critical Lens. Answer: way of looking at power relationships and how they are influenced by
history, economics, politics, and social status
● The Biomedical/Individual Model. Answer: - cancer - diseases - HIV - diabetes - HTN -
chronic diseases
● Biomedical/Individual Model Treatment. Answer: - meds - surgeries - rehab - therapy -
screening
● Behavioural/Group Level. Answer: smoking/diet drug use/unsafe sex unhealthy eating and
no exercise stress
● Behavioural/Group Level Treatment. Answer: education social marketing public policies
lifestyle changes
● Harm Reduction/Individual Level. Answer: unclean needles drugs smoking no condoms
● Harm Reduction/Individual Level Treatment. Answer: provide: methadone and clean
needles smoking reduction condoms
● Socio-Environmental/Community Level. Answer: stressful environment poverty lack of
education/self-esteem trauma lack of safety unemployment social/racial injustice social
isolation
● Socio-Environmental/Community Level Treatment. Answer: political and economical
policies developed social welfare state develop advocacy resource access skill building
empowerment
● micro-level perspective. Answer: individual family neighbourhood
● meso-level perspective. Answer: Neighbourhood, 'group', institutional context
● macro-level perspective. Answer: Broader social, political, economic, historical context
● promoting health. Answer: - promote, protect, preserve - address health disparities or
inequalities - incorporate lived experience of community
, ● building community capacity. Answer: - focus on strengths - working with patients -
empowerment
● building relationships. Answer: - knowing how to be with people - respectful of diversity,
health status, experiences, and beliefs
● facilitating access and equity. Answer: - enable access to resource - advocates for
community members when they are unable to advocate for themselves
● What can a critical lens make us ask?. Answer: what are my own biases, assumptions, and
expectations - how does it affect my ability to connect with the community
● how can a CHN address social injustice issues?. Answer: - collaborate with community to
address issues partner with organizations and agencies to eradicate problem - provide
resources to support the community
● social justice. Answer: - position of one group in relation to others - fair distribution of
benefits, resources, opportunities - acknowledge systemic barriers exist - all have a
responsibility to understand our role
● health disparities and inequities gaps. Answer: - income - race - gender - abilities -
sexualities - age
● critical social justice and health inequities. Answer: - moral commitment to critical social
justice to tackle systemic injustice and opppressive social and political processes that sustain
health inequality
● ___________ from oppressive structures is a necessary part of marginalized groups
attainment of health equity. Answer: liberation
● critical social justice goes to the root of societal power ___________.... Answer: hierachies,
interrupt practices of oppression and structural violence causing human suffering
● what does critical social justice move beyond. Answer: eurocentric biomedical perspective
● critical theories. Answer: focus on power differentials; challenge status quo
● critical theories examples. Answer: - critical social theory - feminist - anti-racist - queer
theory - post colonial theory
● intersectionality theory. Answer: recognizing multiple intersecting factors affect health and
access to health - configuration of intersecting factors contributes to vulnerability as well as
capacity building
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Critical Lens. Answer: way of looking at power relationships and how they are influenced by
history, economics, politics, and social status
● The Biomedical/Individual Model. Answer: - cancer - diseases - HIV - diabetes - HTN -
chronic diseases
● Biomedical/Individual Model Treatment. Answer: - meds - surgeries - rehab - therapy -
screening
● Behavioural/Group Level. Answer: smoking/diet drug use/unsafe sex unhealthy eating and
no exercise stress
● Behavioural/Group Level Treatment. Answer: education social marketing public policies
lifestyle changes
● Harm Reduction/Individual Level. Answer: unclean needles drugs smoking no condoms
● Harm Reduction/Individual Level Treatment. Answer: provide: methadone and clean
needles smoking reduction condoms
● Socio-Environmental/Community Level. Answer: stressful environment poverty lack of
education/self-esteem trauma lack of safety unemployment social/racial injustice social
isolation
● Socio-Environmental/Community Level Treatment. Answer: political and economical
policies developed social welfare state develop advocacy resource access skill building
empowerment
● micro-level perspective. Answer: individual family neighbourhood
● meso-level perspective. Answer: Neighbourhood, 'group', institutional context
● macro-level perspective. Answer: Broader social, political, economic, historical context
● promoting health. Answer: - promote, protect, preserve - address health disparities or
inequalities - incorporate lived experience of community
, ● building community capacity. Answer: - focus on strengths - working with patients -
empowerment
● building relationships. Answer: - knowing how to be with people - respectful of diversity,
health status, experiences, and beliefs
● facilitating access and equity. Answer: - enable access to resource - advocates for
community members when they are unable to advocate for themselves
● What can a critical lens make us ask?. Answer: what are my own biases, assumptions, and
expectations - how does it affect my ability to connect with the community
● how can a CHN address social injustice issues?. Answer: - collaborate with community to
address issues partner with organizations and agencies to eradicate problem - provide
resources to support the community
● social justice. Answer: - position of one group in relation to others - fair distribution of
benefits, resources, opportunities - acknowledge systemic barriers exist - all have a
responsibility to understand our role
● health disparities and inequities gaps. Answer: - income - race - gender - abilities -
sexualities - age
● critical social justice and health inequities. Answer: - moral commitment to critical social
justice to tackle systemic injustice and opppressive social and political processes that sustain
health inequality
● ___________ from oppressive structures is a necessary part of marginalized groups
attainment of health equity. Answer: liberation
● critical social justice goes to the root of societal power ___________.... Answer: hierachies,
interrupt practices of oppression and structural violence causing human suffering
● what does critical social justice move beyond. Answer: eurocentric biomedical perspective
● critical theories. Answer: focus on power differentials; challenge status quo
● critical theories examples. Answer: - critical social theory - feminist - anti-racist - queer
theory - post colonial theory
● intersectionality theory. Answer: recognizing multiple intersecting factors affect health and
access to health - configuration of intersecting factors contributes to vulnerability as well as
capacity building
