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,Chapter 1 Health Promotion: Past, Present, and FutureMULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which one of the following major themes best defines the term health promotion?
a. Changing behavior
b. Empowering
c. Increasing knowledge
d. Developing skills
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging
2. Which one of the following ancient civilizations is known for establishing regulations of sanitation?
a. China
b. Egypt
c. Palestine
d. Rome
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
3. The life expectancy of a person born in the age of declining pandemics is reflected in which one of the
following age ranges?
a. 30–37 years
b. 40–47 years
c. 50–57 years
d. 60–67 years
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging
4. Nurses who are involved in epidemiology are focused on which one of the following?
a. Considerations of culture, health, and wellness
b. Influences of technology on treatment of disease
c. Interactions among a team of health providers
d. Relationships among disease, environment, individuals, and communities
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging
5. Which of the following occurrences reflects the Industrial Revolution’s effect on health in Early
America?
a. Healthy soldiers were needed to fight in religious wars.
b. The focus of medicine shifted from disease cure to disease prevention.
c. The Surgeon General’s report outlined health objectives for the nation.
d. There was a shift of the population from rural to urban settings.
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging
6. An amendment to the Social Security Act of 1935 established which one of the following for the
United States?
a. Healthy People 2000
b. Medicare Program
c. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
d. Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
, 7. A 62-year-old patient is confused about Medicare and Medicaid and has asked the nurse to explain the
difference. Which one of the following provides the best answer for the nurse to use when describing
Medicare?
a. Medicare is financial assistance to pay hospital costs for the poor, medically needy, aged,
disabled, and their dependent children and families.
b. Medicare provides hospital insurance and supplemental medical insurance for people over
age 65, disabled people receiving social security benefits, and those in end-stage renal
disease.
c. Medicare provides for only a portion of payments made by state welfare to health care
agencies for the poor, medically needy, aged, disabled, and their dependent children and
families.
d. Medicare provides for hospital costs only for people over age 65, disabled people
receiving social security benefits, and those in end-stage renal disease.
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Difficult
8. A 28-year-old client has requested help in obtaining financial assistance for her children’s health care
costs. She says she has a friend who is receiving Medicaid benefits and asks the nurse to explain more
about Medicaid. Which one of the following provides the best answer for the nurse to use when
describing Medicaid?
a. Medicaid is financial assistance to pay hospital costs for the poor, medically needy, aged,
disabled, and their dependent children and families.
b. Medicaid provides hospital insurance and supplemental medical insurance for people over
age 65, disabled people receiving social security benefits, and those in end-stage renal
disease.
c. Medicaid provides for only a portion of payments made by state welfare to health care
agencies for the poor, medically needy, aged, disabled, and their dependent children and
families.
d. Medicaid provides for hospital costs only for people over age 65, disabled people
receiving social security benefits, and those in end-stage renal disease.
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Difficult
9. Which of the following questions would be appropriate for the nurse to ask a 65-year-old male who
wants to receive Medicare benefits?
a. Do you receive or qualify to receive Social Security benefits?
b. Do you receive or qualify to receive Medicaid benefits?
c. What is your yearly annual income?
d. What is your yearly anticipated medical expense?
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Difficult
10. Which of the following provided the foundation for Medicare and Medicaid Programs?
a. Alma Ata Declaration of 1978
b. Healthy People: Surgeon General’s Report of 1980
c. Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
d. Social Security Act of 1935
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging
11. Which of the following major efforts linked smoking and cancer?
a. Doll and Hill study
b. Framingham study
c. LaLonde Report
, d. Surgeon General’s report, Smoking and Health
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
12. Which of the following is a result of how cost containment has produced positive changes in nursing
practice?
a. There is an increase in opportunities for employment to work on unmet health needs.
b. There is an increase in orientation toward a medical model of practice.
c. There is less competition among providers of health care services.
d. There is less need for rehabilitation centers and home health agencies.
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging
13. Healthy People 2010 identified which one of the following as the top leading health indicator?
a. Access to health care
b. Environmental quality
c. Immunizations
d. Overweight and obesity
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
14. One of the four overarching goals of Healthy People 2020 is which of the following?
a. Advance the access to care for all and reduce tobacco use among adolescents
b. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
c. Reduce fraud in health care spending and increase aid to dependent children
d. Support research in finding disease cures and increase focus on technology
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: Difficult
15. The American Nurses Association’s publication of Nursing’s Social Policy Statement in 1995 is
important to health promotion for which of the following reasons?
a. It expanded the definition of health and reflects a greater commitment to clients.
b. It established a code for nurses outlining an ethical commitment to client care.
c. It provided for a moral commitment of nurses to health promotion of clients.
d. It provided guidelines for and limitations on the contribution of nurses to client health.
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging
16. A nurse is working with a community organization to improve sanitation in a poor area of the city.
Which one of the following actions represents a “wide-angle” perspective for facilitating change?
a. Arrange for a town-hall type meeting to hear the residents’ concerns.
b. Campaign for a law supporting a ban on trash dumping in the area.
c. Plan an educational program on food and water safety.
d. Report violations to the city health commissioner for action.
ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Challenging
TRUE/FALSE
1. Health education is not the same as but is part of the larger concept of health promotion.
ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
2. Prior to the World Health Organization’s campaign for global public health, efforts to improve health
centered more on health promotion than health education.
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