Health Education Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Health Education explores the principles, methods, and importance of promoting health and well-being within individuals and communities. This course examines key concepts such as health literacy, behavior change, program planning, and evaluation. Students will learn about the roles of cultural, environmental, and socio-economic factors in influencing health outcomes. Emphasis is placed on designing effective health education strategies, communicating vital health information, and encouraging healthy lifestyles across diverse populations. Through theoretical frameworks and practical activities, students gain essential skills for advocating and implementing health education initiatives in a variety of settings.
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Contemporary Womens Health Issues for Today and the Future 5th Edition by Cheryl A. Kolander
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Chapter 1: Introducing Womens Health
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Q1) It is difficult to enforce laws against sex traffickers because it is easy to cross international borders.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Nurses Health Study was the first comprehensive study of health issues for women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women was:
A)Mary Wollstonecraft
B)Lucretia Mott
C)Betty Friedan
D)Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Answer: A
Q4) The first major women's social movement in the U.S.began in the early 1900's.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Becoming a Wise Consumer
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Q1) The FDA has established three categories for OTC drug ingredients.Category 1 contains OTC ingredients that are __________.
A)GRHL
B)GRAS and GRAE
C)insufficient data to determine safety
D)neither GRAS nor GRAE
Answer: B
Q2) Credit reports of an individual can be checked when a woman applies for a loan or a credit card.The purpose is to determine if the woman has enough money in the bank to secure the loan for which she is applying.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Government agencies provide consistent protection for consumers even with variations in political climate.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Developing a Healthy Lifestyle
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Q1) Between years 2010 and 2030 the over-65 population is expected to rise more than 70 percent in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The six dimensions of wellness are:
A)physical, emotional, social, occupational, intellectual, and spiritual
B)physical, emotional, career, relationships, school, and church
C)emotional, physical, occupational, traditional, social, and spiritual
D)emotional, physical, work, love, family, and friendships
Answer: A
Q3) Health interventions fall into three primary categories:
A)dissemination, provision, assistance.
B)research, dissemination, education.
C)prevention, treatment, follow-up.
D)education, prevention, treatment.
Answer: D
Q4) Describe self-efficacy.
Answer: Answers will vary
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Chapter 4: Mental and Emotional Wellness
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Q1) Those things in a person's life that have an impact on emotional health and include such things as family, friends, school, events, and so forth are referred to as:
A)social influences
B)sociocultural influences
C)environmental influences
D)cultural influences
Q2) Children who lack emotional intelligence are prone to high risk behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Assertiveness involves respect and deference toward others.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Women are rated as being more attractive to men when they are assertive.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Ninety percent of all anorexics and bulimics are females.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Name and describe the five stages of grief resolution presented by Kubler-Ross.
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Chapter 5: Managing the Stress of Life
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Q1) Undergraduate college women are more likely than men to report an unacceptable stress level.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Stress is not a significant predictor of marital aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Race is a significant predictor of both levels of social support and occupational stress for women.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A woman who is trying to be everything to everybody is known as:
A)an overachiever
B)a type A personality
C)being unrealistic
D)a type E woman
Q5) Describe relaxation therapy.
Q6) Define and describe the healing properties of massage, acupressure, and acupuncture.
Q7) Describe and discuss job stress.
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Chapter 6: Sexual and Relational Wellness
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Q1) Which characteristic is not true of devitalized marriages?
A)partners tend to be older
B)less financial security
C)limited alternatives exist
D)divorce considered at one time
Q2) Co-habitants, that is unmarried partners sharing a household, share some characteristics with single persons; which of the following is not one of these shared characteristics?
A)less commitment to marriage
B)non-acceptance of divorce
C)egalitarian roles
D)valuing independence in the relationship
Q3) A hormone associated with male-female attachment is testosterone.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An avoidance addict in a relationship feels the need to be rescued.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the stages of healthy dating.
Q6) Discuss five warning signs of a troubled relationship.
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Chapter 7: Preventing Abuse Against Women
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Q1) Minimization, directionality, trivialization, and blaming the victim are all _________.
A)Characteristics of battered partners
B)Perceptions of individuals toward battered women
C)Stages of public opinion about abuse
D)Common elements in all types of abuse
Q2) Research conducted on college campuses determined that 40 percent of college age women reported being raped while on a date.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which factor does not increase the risk of being sexually assaulted?
A)Being single
B)Victim of previous sexual assault
C)Living on campus
D)Lower socio-economic status
Q4) Explain the stages and the meaning of the stages as written in the short poem, Autobiography in Five Short Chapters.What is the significance of this poem to women who live in an abusive relationship?
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Chapter 8: Exploring Womens Sexuality
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Q1) A benefit of MHT is the reduction in the risk of heart disease.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ovaries produce the lutenizing hormone.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first stage of the female human sexual response cycle is foreplay.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Premenstrual dysphoric disorder affects approximately ____ percent of all women.
A)5
B)25
C)50 D)75
Q5) The majority of women experience menopause by the age of 50. A)True
B)False
Q6) Overflow incontinence happens with coughing, sneezing, exercising or laughing. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Designing Your Reproductive Plan
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Q1) The U.S.has the lowest infant mortality rate of all developed countries.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Emergency contraception can be purchased over the counter in most US pharmacies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During the past decade, the federal government supported teaching:
A)abstinence-only sexuality education
B)comprehensive sexuality education
C)no sexuality education
D)pro-choice sexuality education
Q4) Sexually active teenage females have a 90 % chance of getting pregnant within a year if no contraception is used.
A)True
B)False
Q5) IUDs are one of the safest, most effective forms of contraception.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss four types of hormonal methods available for birth control.
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Q7) Describe three differences between true labor and false labor.
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Chapter 10: Eating Well
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Q1) A woman needs to consume at least 6 cups of water each day.
A)True
B)False
Q2) List and discuss four of the key recommendations from the most recent dietary guidelines for Americans 2010 by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Q3) Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for women over 50 years of age differ than under the age of 50.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Insufficient folacin during the first trimester of a pregnancy can result in birth defects.
A)True B)False
Q5) Dextrose is a common sugar that comes primarily from fruit and honey. A)True B)False
Q6) Anorectics lose the ability to see their body image correctly. A)True B)False
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Chapter 11: Keeping Fit
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Q1) Measuring body mass index is an accurate method of determining healthy body weight as well as determining the accurate percentage of body fat.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Develop a protocol that will enable a woman to stay involved in a physical activity program (exercise adherence).What should be included? Who should be a part of the program and what time line should be developed?
Q3) The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists states that women who have certain physical disorders should not exercise during pregnancy.Of the following list, which one is not one of the conditions?
A)preterm membrane rupture
B)low blood pressure
C)fetal growth retardation
D)persistent 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> trimester bleeding
Q4) A woman whose body fat drops below 10% usually has irregular or absent menstrual periods, called dysmenorrhea.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Using Alcohol Responsibly
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Q1) Discuss the patterns and differences in female ethnic groups as they relate to consumption of alcohol.
Q2) Discuss the special concerns of women regarding alcohol abuse and the physical, behavioral, social, economic and relational effects.
Q3) A codependent woman is someone who has addiction to alcohol, tobacco, or possibly to illegal drugs, along with her partner.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Codependency is unhealthy because the individual tends to allow her physical, emotional, social, and mental quality of life to be dependent on the quality of life of other people.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Use of alcohol during pregnancy can result in the leading cause of birth defects in the U.S., Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Making Wise Decisions About Tobacco,
Caffeine
and Drugs
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Q1) The fetus is protected from the negative effects of the mother's drug abuse by the placenta and the amniotic fluid.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Complete information about the consequences of the mother's drug use on the fetus is not known due to the ethics involved in conducting drug research on human beings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Carboxyhemoglobin is the compound in tobacco smoke that is considered to cause the addiction that women experience when they smoke.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The majority of today's illegal drugs were legal drugs in the early history of their use in the U.S.
A)True B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast the consequences of inhalation of environmental tobacco smoke and inhalation of mainstream smoke.
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Chapter 14: Preventing and Controlling Infectious Diseases
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Q1) The most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S.is:
A)AIDS
B)chlamydia
C)gonorrhea
D)genital herpes
Q2) A vaccination exists to prevent hepatitis
B.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When a woman spreads genital herpes to herself it is called:
A)autoinoculation
B)self-exposure
C)primary spread
D)impossible to do
Q4) African American and Hispanic women account for more than one-half of all women living with AIDS.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List five warning signs of STIs.
Q6) Describe the stages of syphilis.
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Chapter 15: Preventing and Controlling Chronic Health
Conditions
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Q1) The upper chambers of the heart that receive blood are:
A)atria
B)arterioles
C)ventricles
D)venules
Q2) Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner lining of the heart chamber.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When an occlusion of the coronary vessel occurs, the person experiences a:
A)myocardial infarction
B)congenital heart defect
C)silent ischemia
D)mitral valve prolapse
Q4) This condition occurs when the heart is too weak to pump blood to the body:
A)heart attack
B)myocardial infarction
C)arrhythmia
D)congestive heart failure
Q5) List four (F.A.S.T.) warning signs of stroke.
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Chapter 16: Reducing Your Risk of Cancer
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Q1) The most common type of cancer found in the U.S:
A)carcinoma
B)sarcoma
C)lymphoma
D)leukemia
Q2) This ethnic group has the highest reported rates of cancer in women is ________; secondly are ___________ women.
A)Alaska-Native; Caucasian
B)Caucasian; Hispanic
C)African American; Caucasian
D)Hispanic/Latino; Alaska-Native
Q3) Sources of UV rays can cause basal cell, squamous cell or melanoma cancers.Which of the following is not a source of UVA or UVB:
A)midday sun
B)sun lamps
C)tanning beds
D)morning sun
Q4) Explain the difference between carcinoma and sarcoma.
Q5) Discuss the "war on cancer".Has it been won? Why or why not?
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