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NURS 235 MIDTERM EXAM ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (ALREADY
GRADED A+) | LATEST VERSION 2025 | PROFESSOR
VERIFIED
An example of the recent geographic spread of a communicable disease includes:
A) Smallpox
B) Cervical cancer
C) Chikungunya
D) Polio - (answers)C) Chikungunya
Which example of a health issue would require the most intersectoral
collaboration to address?
A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
B) Childhood vaccination
C) Essential Surgery
D) Improving maternal care - (answers)A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
The best description below of the focus of public health is:
A) Achieving medical care for all
B) Reducing road traffic injuries
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C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health through
organized community effort
D) Extending life expectancy - (answers)C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and
promoting physical health through organized community effort
Which statement least reflects a global health concern?
A) The application of public health to issues that transcend national boundaries
B) The achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
C) Cooperative efforts needed to solve a critical public health problem affecting
many countries
D) Global standard setting on diagnostics and drugs - (answers)B) The
achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
Planetary health refers to:
A) An approach to public health that concerns animal health
B) An approach to public health that focuses on zoonotic disease
C) An approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of human
health, animal health, and the environment
D) An approach to public health that focuses on the environment - (answers)C) An
approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of human
health, animal health, and the environment
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The Sustainable Development Goals
A) Include a range of goals and targets that relate to health
B) Focus on a healthy environment
C) Are all to be achieved by 2020
D) Say little about global health - (answers)A) Include a range of goals and targets
that relate to health
Which of the following is an example of a public health approach?
A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
B) A physician counselling an individual patient on the need to exercise
C) A physician encouraging a family to vaccinate their children
D) A community health worker treating individual cases of a disease - (answers)A)
A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
The only human disease ever eradicated was:
A) Rinderpest
B) Smallpox
C) Guinea worm
D) Hookworm - (answers)B) Smallpox
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Important progress in health has resulted from:
A) Improvements in hygiene, access to safe water, and access to safe sanitation
B) Improvements in technology, such as the dissemination of childhood vaccines
C) Increases in people's level of education
D) All of these are correct - (answers)D) All of these are correct
Examples of countries that in the last 50 years achieved substantially better levels
of population health than one might have predicted by their income level,
include:
A) Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands
B) The US
C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
D) Liberia and Sierra Leone - (answers)C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
Which of these is a reason to enhance your knowledge of global health?
A) Communicable diseases do not respect boundaries
B) Many low- and middle-income countries face a set of similar challenges to
improving their health system
C) Some health issues are greater than any individual country can address
NURS 235 MIDTERM EXAM ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (ALREADY
GRADED A+) | LATEST VERSION 2025 | PROFESSOR
VERIFIED
An example of the recent geographic spread of a communicable disease includes:
A) Smallpox
B) Cervical cancer
C) Chikungunya
D) Polio - (answers)C) Chikungunya
Which example of a health issue would require the most intersectoral
collaboration to address?
A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
B) Childhood vaccination
C) Essential Surgery
D) Improving maternal care - (answers)A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
The best description below of the focus of public health is:
A) Achieving medical care for all
B) Reducing road traffic injuries
, 2
C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health through
organized community effort
D) Extending life expectancy - (answers)C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and
promoting physical health through organized community effort
Which statement least reflects a global health concern?
A) The application of public health to issues that transcend national boundaries
B) The achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
C) Cooperative efforts needed to solve a critical public health problem affecting
many countries
D) Global standard setting on diagnostics and drugs - (answers)B) The
achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
Planetary health refers to:
A) An approach to public health that concerns animal health
B) An approach to public health that focuses on zoonotic disease
C) An approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of human
health, animal health, and the environment
D) An approach to public health that focuses on the environment - (answers)C) An
approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of human
health, animal health, and the environment
, 3
The Sustainable Development Goals
A) Include a range of goals and targets that relate to health
B) Focus on a healthy environment
C) Are all to be achieved by 2020
D) Say little about global health - (answers)A) Include a range of goals and targets
that relate to health
Which of the following is an example of a public health approach?
A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
B) A physician counselling an individual patient on the need to exercise
C) A physician encouraging a family to vaccinate their children
D) A community health worker treating individual cases of a disease - (answers)A)
A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
The only human disease ever eradicated was:
A) Rinderpest
B) Smallpox
C) Guinea worm
D) Hookworm - (answers)B) Smallpox
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Important progress in health has resulted from:
A) Improvements in hygiene, access to safe water, and access to safe sanitation
B) Improvements in technology, such as the dissemination of childhood vaccines
C) Increases in people's level of education
D) All of these are correct - (answers)D) All of these are correct
Examples of countries that in the last 50 years achieved substantially better levels
of population health than one might have predicted by their income level,
include:
A) Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands
B) The US
C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
D) Liberia and Sierra Leone - (answers)C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
Which of these is a reason to enhance your knowledge of global health?
A) Communicable diseases do not respect boundaries
B) Many low- and middle-income countries face a set of similar challenges to
improving their health system
C) Some health issues are greater than any individual country can address
