,Chapter 01: Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion
and Prevention Edelman: Health Promotion
Throughout the Life Span, 10th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive
health care?
a. Clinical model
b.Role performance
model
c. Adaptive model
d.Eudaimonistic model
ANS: A
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as
indicative of health. People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: REF: p. 3
Remember
2.A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider
as well as receives acupuncture. Which model of health does this
person likely favor?
a. Clinical model
b.Role performance
model
c. Adaptive model
d.Eudaimonistic model
ANS: D
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical,
social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment
and creating meaning in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be
enough for someone who believes in the eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the
eudaimonistic model often look for alternative providers of care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply REF: p. 3
(Application)
3.A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a
person’s potential and is experienced within a developmental context is
known as:
a. growth and development.
b.health.
c. functioning.
d.high-level wellness.
ANS: B
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that
realizes a person’s potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
DIF: Cognitive Level: REF: p. 5
Remember
4.Which of the following best describes a client who has an illness?
a. Someone who has well-controlled
diabetes
b.Someone with hypercholesterolemia
c. Someone with a headache
d.Someone with coronary artery disease
without
,angina ANS: C
, Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of
the subjective experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It
can be described as a response characterized by a mismatch between a person’s needs
and the resources available to meet those needs. A person can have a disease without
feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.
DIF: Cognitive Level: REF: p. 6
Analyze (Analysis)
5.Which US report is considered a landmark document in creating a global
approach to health? a.The 1990 Health Objectives for the Nation: A
Midcourse Review
b.Healthy People 2020
c. Healthy People 2000
d.The U.S. Surgeon General Report
ANS: C
Healthy People 2000 and its Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions were landmark
documents in which a consortium of people representing national organizations
worked with US Public Health Service officials to create a more global approach to
health.
DIF: Cognitive Level: REF: p. 6
Remember
6.Which of the following represents a method of primary
prevention? a. Informational session about healthy
lifestyles
b.Blood pressure screening
c. Interventional cardiac catheterization
d.Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
ANS: A
Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and
specific protection and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about
healthy lifestyles fits this definition. Blood pressure screening does not prevent
disease, but instead identifies it.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply REF: p. 11
(Application)
7.Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
a. Self–breast examination education
b.Yearly mammograms
c. Chemotherapy for advanced
breast cancer
d.Complete mastectomy for breast
cancer
ANS: B
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to identify
individuals in an early, detectable stage of the disease process. A mammogram is a
screening tool for breast cancer and thus is considered a method of secondary
prevention.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply REF: p. 15
(Application)
8.Which of the following represents a method of tertiary prevention?
a. Drunk driving campaign
b.Road blocks for drunk driving
c. Emergency surgery for head trauma after a motor vehicle
accident
and Prevention Edelman: Health Promotion
Throughout the Life Span, 10th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive
health care?
a. Clinical model
b.Role performance
model
c. Adaptive model
d.Eudaimonistic model
ANS: A
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as
indicative of health. People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: REF: p. 3
Remember
2.A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider
as well as receives acupuncture. Which model of health does this
person likely favor?
a. Clinical model
b.Role performance
model
c. Adaptive model
d.Eudaimonistic model
ANS: D
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical,
social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment
and creating meaning in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be
enough for someone who believes in the eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the
eudaimonistic model often look for alternative providers of care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply REF: p. 3
(Application)
3.A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a
person’s potential and is experienced within a developmental context is
known as:
a. growth and development.
b.health.
c. functioning.
d.high-level wellness.
ANS: B
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that
realizes a person’s potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
DIF: Cognitive Level: REF: p. 5
Remember
4.Which of the following best describes a client who has an illness?
a. Someone who has well-controlled
diabetes
b.Someone with hypercholesterolemia
c. Someone with a headache
d.Someone with coronary artery disease
without
,angina ANS: C
, Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of
the subjective experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It
can be described as a response characterized by a mismatch between a person’s needs
and the resources available to meet those needs. A person can have a disease without
feeling ill. The other choices represent disease.
DIF: Cognitive Level: REF: p. 6
Analyze (Analysis)
5.Which US report is considered a landmark document in creating a global
approach to health? a.The 1990 Health Objectives for the Nation: A
Midcourse Review
b.Healthy People 2020
c. Healthy People 2000
d.The U.S. Surgeon General Report
ANS: C
Healthy People 2000 and its Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions were landmark
documents in which a consortium of people representing national organizations
worked with US Public Health Service officials to create a more global approach to
health.
DIF: Cognitive Level: REF: p. 6
Remember
6.Which of the following represents a method of primary
prevention? a. Informational session about healthy
lifestyles
b.Blood pressure screening
c. Interventional cardiac catheterization
d.Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
ANS: A
Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and
specific protection and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about
healthy lifestyles fits this definition. Blood pressure screening does not prevent
disease, but instead identifies it.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply REF: p. 11
(Application)
7.Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
a. Self–breast examination education
b.Yearly mammograms
c. Chemotherapy for advanced
breast cancer
d.Complete mastectomy for breast
cancer
ANS: B
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to identify
individuals in an early, detectable stage of the disease process. A mammogram is a
screening tool for breast cancer and thus is considered a method of secondary
prevention.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply REF: p. 15
(Application)
8.Which of the following represents a method of tertiary prevention?
a. Drunk driving campaign
b.Road blocks for drunk driving
c. Emergency surgery for head trauma after a motor vehicle
accident
