HPEB – Exam 2 Top Tens, Health Promotion and Behavioral Health Course, High-Yield Study
Guide and Key Concepts Review
Define maternity, infant, and child health. - ANS ✔✔the health of women of childbearing age
and that of the child up to adolescence
Identify two reasons why maternity, infant, and child health is important to a community. - ANS
✔✔-maternal, infant, and child statistics are regarded as important indicators of the
effectiveness of the disease prevention and health promotion services in a community
-many of the risk factors specified can be reduced or prevented with the early intervention of
educational programs and preventative medical services for women, infants, and children
Define infant mortality rate. - ANS ✔✔the number of deaths of children under 1 year of age per
1,000 live births
Which industrialized nation has the highest rate of infant mortality? - ANS ✔✔United States
How many children are killed by abuse or neglect for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔5 children
How many children or teens die by suicide for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔8 children
How many children or teens are injured or killed with a gun for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔-
9 are killed
-50 are injured
How many children are arrested for violent crimes for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔126
children
,How many children are confirmed as abused or neglected for each day in America? - ANS
✔✔1,844 children
How many children are arrested for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔1,995 children
Define family planning. - ANS ✔✔determining the preferred number and spacing of children
and choosing the appropriate means to accomplish it
About how many pregnancies are unintended? - ANS ✔✔50% in the United States
What is Title X? - ANS ✔✔a portion of the Public Health Service Act of 1970 that provides funds
for family planning services for low-income people
Who is Margaret Sanger and how is she important to family planning in the United States? - ANS
✔✔she founded the National Birth Control League (later Planned Parenthood Federation of
America) which started the birth control movement in the United States
What did Margaret Sanger believe about women and sexual pleasure? - ANS ✔✔she believed
that women had the right to experience sexual pleasure and that freeing them from the fear of
pregnancy would assist women in achieving this
What were the Comstock Laws? - ANS ✔✔made it a federal offense to provide information,
devices, or medications related to contraception and unlawful abortion through the mail
What is the gag rule? - ANS ✔✔regulations that barred physicians and nurses in clinics receiving
federal funds from counseling clients about abortions
What did Roe v. Wade make unconstitutional? - ANS ✔✔for state laws to prohibit abortions in
the first trimester for any reason and placed restrictions on the conditions under which states
could regulate them in the second and third trimester
, What do pro-life groups believe? - ANS ✔✔life begins at conception and that an embryo is a
person, therefore, performing an abortion is an act of murder
What do pro-choice groups believe? - ANS ✔✔women have a right to reproductive freedom and
the government should not be allowed to force a woman to term and give birth to an unwanted
child
Regarding infant health, what constitutes low birth weight (LBW)? - ANS ✔✔newborns that
weigh less than 2,500 grams or 5.5 pounds at birth
LBW infants have an increased risk of which medical problems? - ANS ✔✔development of the
baby's respiratory, cardiovascular, and digestive systems
Describe FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome). - ANS ✔✔a condition in babies born to mothers who
have consumed heavy amounts of alcohol during their pregnancies where they experience
abnormal facial features, growth problems, central nervous system problems, and have
problems with learning, memory, attention span, communication, vision, or hearing
Describe SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). - ANS ✔✔sudden unanticipated death of an
infant in whom, after examination, there is no recognized cause of death
What is the leading cause of child morbidity and mortality (examples)? - ANS ✔✔unintentional
injuries (drowning, falls, fires, or burns, poisoning, suffocation, and injuries related to
transportation)
Describe WIC (women, infants, and children). - ANS ✔✔a special supplemental food program
for women infants, and children sponsored by the USDA
Guide and Key Concepts Review
Define maternity, infant, and child health. - ANS ✔✔the health of women of childbearing age
and that of the child up to adolescence
Identify two reasons why maternity, infant, and child health is important to a community. - ANS
✔✔-maternal, infant, and child statistics are regarded as important indicators of the
effectiveness of the disease prevention and health promotion services in a community
-many of the risk factors specified can be reduced or prevented with the early intervention of
educational programs and preventative medical services for women, infants, and children
Define infant mortality rate. - ANS ✔✔the number of deaths of children under 1 year of age per
1,000 live births
Which industrialized nation has the highest rate of infant mortality? - ANS ✔✔United States
How many children are killed by abuse or neglect for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔5 children
How many children or teens die by suicide for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔8 children
How many children or teens are injured or killed with a gun for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔-
9 are killed
-50 are injured
How many children are arrested for violent crimes for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔126
children
,How many children are confirmed as abused or neglected for each day in America? - ANS
✔✔1,844 children
How many children are arrested for each day in America? - ANS ✔✔1,995 children
Define family planning. - ANS ✔✔determining the preferred number and spacing of children
and choosing the appropriate means to accomplish it
About how many pregnancies are unintended? - ANS ✔✔50% in the United States
What is Title X? - ANS ✔✔a portion of the Public Health Service Act of 1970 that provides funds
for family planning services for low-income people
Who is Margaret Sanger and how is she important to family planning in the United States? - ANS
✔✔she founded the National Birth Control League (later Planned Parenthood Federation of
America) which started the birth control movement in the United States
What did Margaret Sanger believe about women and sexual pleasure? - ANS ✔✔she believed
that women had the right to experience sexual pleasure and that freeing them from the fear of
pregnancy would assist women in achieving this
What were the Comstock Laws? - ANS ✔✔made it a federal offense to provide information,
devices, or medications related to contraception and unlawful abortion through the mail
What is the gag rule? - ANS ✔✔regulations that barred physicians and nurses in clinics receiving
federal funds from counseling clients about abortions
What did Roe v. Wade make unconstitutional? - ANS ✔✔for state laws to prohibit abortions in
the first trimester for any reason and placed restrictions on the conditions under which states
could regulate them in the second and third trimester
, What do pro-life groups believe? - ANS ✔✔life begins at conception and that an embryo is a
person, therefore, performing an abortion is an act of murder
What do pro-choice groups believe? - ANS ✔✔women have a right to reproductive freedom and
the government should not be allowed to force a woman to term and give birth to an unwanted
child
Regarding infant health, what constitutes low birth weight (LBW)? - ANS ✔✔newborns that
weigh less than 2,500 grams or 5.5 pounds at birth
LBW infants have an increased risk of which medical problems? - ANS ✔✔development of the
baby's respiratory, cardiovascular, and digestive systems
Describe FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome). - ANS ✔✔a condition in babies born to mothers who
have consumed heavy amounts of alcohol during their pregnancies where they experience
abnormal facial features, growth problems, central nervous system problems, and have
problems with learning, memory, attention span, communication, vision, or hearing
Describe SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). - ANS ✔✔sudden unanticipated death of an
infant in whom, after examination, there is no recognized cause of death
What is the leading cause of child morbidity and mortality (examples)? - ANS ✔✔unintentional
injuries (drowning, falls, fires, or burns, poisoning, suffocation, and injuries related to
transportation)
Describe WIC (women, infants, and children). - ANS ✔✔a special supplemental food program
for women infants, and children sponsored by the USDA
