Midterm 1 Flashcards
Which of the following is a measure of deaths that occur in the first 28 days after birth?
A) Neonatal death rate
B) Standardized death rate
C) Infant death rate
D) Perinatal death rate
A
Which of the health promotion strategies articulated in Beattie’s Model is most closely related to an empowerment approach to health promotion?
A) Personal counselling
B) Legislative action
C) Community development
D) Health persuasion
C
With which of the following statements is a liberal most likely to support?
A) Government intervention is a legitimate way to promote health
B) Government should allow the free market to balance competing interests
C) Government has no business trying to influence individual behaviour
D) Government should focus on protecting individual rights
A
Which of the following parties is least likely to support an increase in welfare payments for unemployed workers?
A) Conservative Party
B) Liberal Party
C) Green Party
D) New Democratic Party
A
Which ethical principle is violated if a health promotion program harms participants?
A) Autonomy
B) Non-maleficence
C) Justice
D) Honesty
B
Which of the following political parties is most focused on environmental sustainability?
A) Conservative Party
B) Liberal Party
C) People’s Party
D) Green Party
D
Which of these terms does the following statement best define: “the capacity of an individual to obtain, interpret and understand basic health information and services in ways that are health enhancing” (HHS, 2020).
A) Prevention
B) Public health
C) Health literacy
D) Health promotion
C
A health promotion program that considers only objective measures of health is most likely to be based on which of the following models of health?
A) The medical model
B) The social model
C) The unified model
D) The holistic model
A
Which of the following parties is most likely to support transferring decision-making from the federal to provincial governments?
A) Green Party
B) New Democratic Party
C) Bloc Quebecois
D) Liberal Party
C
Which of the following best describes Caplan and Holland’s Traditional paradigm of health promotion?
A) Community organizers facilitating community members’ learning to understand and address forms of oppression affecting them
B) Activists protesting policies that create systemic inequalities
C) Public health officials providing the public with information about COVID-19 vaccines
D) Psychologists helping clients use their resources and skills to reach goals identified by the clients
C
Which ethical principle is most closely related to informed consent?
A) Autonomy
B) Honesty
C) Justice
D) Beneficence
A
As presented in the class materials, which of the following was informed by experiments on Indigenous children in residential schools?
A) ParticipACTION
B) Canada’s 24-Hour Movement Guidelines
C) Canada’s Food Guide
D) Body Break
C
Which of the following best describes Caplan and Holland’s Radical Structuralist paradigm of health promotion?
A) Community organizers facilitating community members’ learning to understand and address forms of oppression affecting them
B) Psychologists helping clients use their resources and skills to reach goals identified by the clients
C) Activists protesting policies that create systemic inequalities
D) Public health officials providing the public with information about COVID-19 vaccines
C
Which of the following statements is a conservative most likely to support?
A) Aspects of the economy should be regulated to bring about equitable outcomes
B) Individuals, not governments, should be responsible for their health-related decisions
C) Government action should encourage people to make healthy choices
D) Health care is a right of citizenship and should be available to all for free
B
Which of the following best describes the “nature of knowledge” axis in Caplan and Holland’s Four Paradigms of Health Promotion?
A) Whether health promotion should be guided by scientific findings, or by lay understandings of the world
B) Whether the goal of health promotion should be to bring about large-scale changes in society, or to bring about changes in individuals
C) Whether community members should play a greater or lesser role in designing and delivering health promotion interventions
D) Whether the focus of health promotion should be on treatment or on prevention
A
Mackenzie is leading a class on strategies for quitting smoking. Which approach to health promotion is she following?
A) Empowerment
B) Medical
C) Behaviour Change
D) Social
C
Which ethical principle is violated when health-damaging infrastructure like pollution-emitting waste processing plants are located only in poor areas?
A) Beneficence
B) Honesty
C) Autonomy
D) Justice
D
What were the Nuremberg trials?
A) Court cases brought against leading Nazis after World War II for their part in medical experimentation on prisoners, among other atrocities
B) Research studies that show the importance of community involvement and ownership in health promotion efforts
C) Qualifying races for the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin
D) Court cases brought against the researchers in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study for failing to obtain informed consent from participants
A
Which of the following best describes primary prevention?
A) Helping people to avoid getting the disease in the first place
B) Thinking more positively about the disease
C) Shortening the length of time people have the disease
D) Limiting the complications that arise from the disease
A
Which of the following documents is considered worldwide to be the founding document of health promotion?
A) Ottawa Charter
B) Helsinki Declaration
C) Nuremburg Code
D) Epp Report
A
