Midterm 2 Flashcards
Which of the following Health Belief Model constructs can be defined as positive things that people anticipate will occur if they engage in a behaviour?
A) Perceived benefits
B) Perceived severity
C) Perceived susceptibility
D) Perceived barriers
A
Which theory includes an explicit assessment of how threatened a person feels by a particular disease outcome?
A) Theory of Planned Behaviour
B) Theory of Reasoned Action
C) Stages of Change
D) Health Belief Model
D
According to the Stages of Change Model, which of the following best describes people in the stage pre-contemplation?
A) Their perception of the benefits of the behaviour outweigh the perceived costs
B) They have successfully changed and feel in no risk of reverting back to the old behaviour
C) They have become aware of the benefits of change but not yet ready to change
D) They have not considered changing their lifestyle or have not become aware of any potential risks in their health behaviour
D)
Which statement best differentiates the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) from the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB)?
A) How at risk people feel they are to contracting a particular disease
B) How much control people feel they have over a particular behaviour
C) Beliefs about what other people think about a behaviour
D) Beliefs about the anticipated outcomes of a behaviour
B
Which of the following best describes the health impact assessment (HIA) stage 1: screening?
A) Identifying the nature and magnitude of the harmful and beneficial factors
B) Outlining the possible hazards and benefits and the questions that should be asked in the HIA
C) Assessing whether a project or policy is likely to pose significant health questions and therefore whether it is worth doing an HIA
D) Deciding which policy option to take
C)
Which of the following best describes the health impact assessment (HIA) stage 3: risk assessment?
A) Outlining the possible hazards and benefits and the questions that should be asked in the HIA
B) Assessing whether a project or policy is likely to pose significant health questions and therefore whether it is worth doing an HIA
C) Identifying the nature and magnitude of the harmful and beneficial factors
D) Deciding which policy option to take
C
Which of the following statements best describes the recommendations in the City of Toronto’s Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of the Use of Artificial Turf in Toronto from April 2015?
A) The City should install only artificial turf in the future development of any city-owned park, community centre, or recreation centre
B) The HIA provides information about the health effects of artificial turf but makes no recommendations for or against its use by the City
C) The City should not install artificial turf in any city-owned park, community centre, or recreation centre
D) Artificial turf should only be used in specific situations, and when it is used, the mitigation of potential health-damaging effects should be pursued
D
On which ladder of intervention rung would the following example best fit? Example: Increasing the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables in an inner-city neighbourhood
A) Guide choice through disincentives
B) Enable choice
C) Guide choice through incentives
D) Restrict choice
B
Which of the following institutions are involved in health promotion and primary health care?
A) Government and health sector only
B) Government, health sector, voluntary sector, mass media, and business sector
C) Government, health sector, and voluntary sector only
D) Health sector only
B
The text describes three categories of professions involved in health promotion and primary health care: wider contributors, practitioners, and specialists. Which of the following is an example of a specialist?
A) Employee of local public health department
B) Community public health nurse
C) Employee of non-governmental organization that seeks to address poverty
D) Teacher
A
As discussed in the text, which of the following categories of employees in the health promotion workforce includes teachers?
A) Practitioners
B) Specialists
C) Wider contributors
D) Generalists
C
Which of the following statements best describes the state of reorienting health services to be more health promotive today?
A) Challenging with little progress to date
B) Challenging with great progress to date
C) Straightforward with great progress to date
D) Straightforward with little progress to date
A
Which of the following is a least likely to be part of a social marketing campaign?
A) Targeted media campaigns
B) Audience segmentation
C) Unplanned media campaigns
D) Formative research
C
Which of the following is a mass media health promotion campaign least likely to do?
A) Convey complex information
B) Convey simple information
C) Convey the context of an issue
D) Convey single messages
A
Which of the following best defines media advocacy?
A) Using the media to try to generate public concern about an issue
B) Media coverage that encourages behaviour change
C) Using concepts from commercial marketing to “sell” a behaviour change
D) Media coverage that discourages behaviour change
A
Which of these is not one of the four p’s in the marketing mix?
A) Place
B) Power
C) Promotion
D) Price
B
Which of the following best defines capacity building in community health promotion work?
A) Building relationships within and outside the community that lead to action
B) Working with community members to develop consensus on needs and actions to address them
C) Working with community members to develop their skills to identify and address issues
D) Studying a community to understand its needs and assets that could support solutions
C
Which of the following best defines profiling in community health promotion work?
A) Studying a community to understand its needs and assets that could support solutions
B) Working with community members to develop consensus on needs and actions to address them
C) Working with community members to develop their skills to identify and address issues
D) Building relationships within and outside the community that lead to action
A
Which of the following is least likely to be a challenge when working with communities?
A) Definitively saying whether a project had positive effects
B) Funding that comes with funder requirements about how to use it
C) Traditional academics and researchers not valuing the work
D) Focusing on community strengths rather than deficits
D
Which of the following rungs on Arnstein’s Ladder of Participation does she categorize as tokenism?
A) Consultation
B) Educating
C) Manipulating
D) Delegated Power
A
