HLT 450 URI EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the WHO definition of health? - CORRECT 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'? - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Infectious diseases (now more controlled)
Now what is killing us? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Chronic diseases
What is the U.S. ranked in crude death rate? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅89th (out of 225 countries)
What is the U.S. ranked in life expectancy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅50th (out of 223 countries)
Do men or women have a higher life expectancy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Women
Morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Incidence of a specific notifiable disease
Mortality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Death rate
What really kills us? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Tobacco
- Poor diet
- Physical inactivity
- Alcohol
Contributors to mortality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Most causes of death are behavior related
- Social / environment factors may play a role
, - SES
- Health care
- Air / water quality
Hypokinetic disease - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Disease associated with a lack of exercise
- Hypo = low or less
- Kinetic = movement
Leading causes of death in 1900 - CORRECT 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) - CORRECT 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
What is the WHO definition of health? - CORRECT 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'? - CORRECT 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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Infectious diseases (now more controlled)
Now what is killing us? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Chronic diseases
What is the U.S. ranked in crude death rate? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅89th (out of 225 countries)
What is the U.S. ranked in life expectancy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅50th (out of 223 countries)
Do men or women have a higher life expectancy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Women
Morbidity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Incidence of a specific notifiable disease
Mortality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Death rate
What really kills us? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Tobacco
- Poor diet
- Physical inactivity
- Alcohol
Contributors to mortality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Most causes of death are behavior related
- Social / environment factors may play a role
, - SES
- Health care
- Air / water quality
Hypokinetic disease - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Disease associated with a lack of exercise
- Hypo = low or less
- Kinetic = movement
Leading causes of death in 1900 - CORRECT 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) - CORRECT 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
