KIN 2603 EXAM 1 Questions and
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
consumer health - Answer all marketplace aspects of wellness
marketplace - Answer anything where goods/services are purchased or sold
goal of consumer health - Answer achieving and maintaining health while maintaining fiscal
responsibility (being healthy without going broke doing it)
caveat emptor - Answer philosophy behind consumer health, "let the buyer beware," for the
consumer it means if no warranty is provided with purchase, the consumer has no recourse if
the product is defective or causes harm
health - Answer state of complete physical, mental and social well-being; not only absence of
disease
holistic health - Answer viewing health as the body being an 'integrated system' rather than
just separate parts
wellness - Answer living healthy within different "dimensions:" physical, emotional,
intellectual, spiritual, interpersonal (social), environmental, occupational
western medicine - Answer procedures and practices based on science (specifically the
scientific method)
safety, being informed, choice, to be heard, education, redress - Answer What are the six
rights on the consumer bill of rights?
redress - Answer consumer bill of rights, ability to work with available systems and have
problems fixed; being compensated if service is poor or refunded if products do not work
consumer advocacy - Answer working on behalf of general population; idea is to educate
and inform general public about proper wellness practices, services, and legal rights
Ralph nader - Answer author that wrote "unsafe at any speed;" changed the car industry; he
and his supporters subsequently conducted and funded research and investigation into various
goods and services which led to laws designed to protect public
, agency for healthcare research and quality - Answer US Department of Health and Human
Services has a specific department called the
_______________________________________________ to educate the public about access to
proper medical care.
scientific method - Answer foundation and defining characteristic of Western Medicine
self-correcting - Answer What is the strongest feature of the scientific method?
self-correcting - Answer this quality means that any errors will eventually be discovered
through further review because everyone uses the exact same steps and techniques for
experiments/studies
observation, hypothesis, design and experiment, accept or modify hypothesis, develop and
become a law/theory, peer review - Answer What are the six steps of the scientific method?
observation - Answer step of the scientific method; describes problem to undergo testing;
qualitative or quantitative
hypothesis - Answer tentative explanation for what is observed (must prove it to be true or
not true during an experiment)
validity - Answer accuracy of methods/followed rules
reliability - Answer ability to replicate results consistently doing the exact same steps (even
by stranger)
research - Answer What must you continue doing if hypothesis is not proven?
peer review - Answer ability for others (colleagues or strangers) to follow the exact same
research design and produce exact same results
bias, inconsistency, subject loss, record keeping - Answer What are the four problems with
research studies?
qualitative - Answer method of research that is less specific; hard to measure how much
someone approved or disliked something
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
consumer health - Answer all marketplace aspects of wellness
marketplace - Answer anything where goods/services are purchased or sold
goal of consumer health - Answer achieving and maintaining health while maintaining fiscal
responsibility (being healthy without going broke doing it)
caveat emptor - Answer philosophy behind consumer health, "let the buyer beware," for the
consumer it means if no warranty is provided with purchase, the consumer has no recourse if
the product is defective or causes harm
health - Answer state of complete physical, mental and social well-being; not only absence of
disease
holistic health - Answer viewing health as the body being an 'integrated system' rather than
just separate parts
wellness - Answer living healthy within different "dimensions:" physical, emotional,
intellectual, spiritual, interpersonal (social), environmental, occupational
western medicine - Answer procedures and practices based on science (specifically the
scientific method)
safety, being informed, choice, to be heard, education, redress - Answer What are the six
rights on the consumer bill of rights?
redress - Answer consumer bill of rights, ability to work with available systems and have
problems fixed; being compensated if service is poor or refunded if products do not work
consumer advocacy - Answer working on behalf of general population; idea is to educate
and inform general public about proper wellness practices, services, and legal rights
Ralph nader - Answer author that wrote "unsafe at any speed;" changed the car industry; he
and his supporters subsequently conducted and funded research and investigation into various
goods and services which led to laws designed to protect public
, agency for healthcare research and quality - Answer US Department of Health and Human
Services has a specific department called the
_______________________________________________ to educate the public about access to
proper medical care.
scientific method - Answer foundation and defining characteristic of Western Medicine
self-correcting - Answer What is the strongest feature of the scientific method?
self-correcting - Answer this quality means that any errors will eventually be discovered
through further review because everyone uses the exact same steps and techniques for
experiments/studies
observation, hypothesis, design and experiment, accept or modify hypothesis, develop and
become a law/theory, peer review - Answer What are the six steps of the scientific method?
observation - Answer step of the scientific method; describes problem to undergo testing;
qualitative or quantitative
hypothesis - Answer tentative explanation for what is observed (must prove it to be true or
not true during an experiment)
validity - Answer accuracy of methods/followed rules
reliability - Answer ability to replicate results consistently doing the exact same steps (even
by stranger)
research - Answer What must you continue doing if hypothesis is not proven?
peer review - Answer ability for others (colleagues or strangers) to follow the exact same
research design and produce exact same results
bias, inconsistency, subject loss, record keeping - Answer What are the four problems with
research studies?
qualitative - Answer method of research that is less specific; hard to measure how much
someone approved or disliked something
