Unit 7: Non-Communicable Diseases & Mental Health Mental Health

Question 1

Poor mental health and mental illness are not the same things

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Poor mental health and mental illness are not the same things

Answer 2

-TRUE

Question 3

There is no single cause for mental illness. A number of factors can contribute to risk for mental illness, such as

Answer 3

-Any of the answers

Question 4

Mental illnesses are conditions that affect a person’s thinking, feeling, mood or behavior and include the following, EXCEPT.

Answer 4

-Atherosclerosis

Question 5

A person can experience poor mental health and not be diagnosed with a mental illness. Likewise, a person diagnosed with a mental illness can experience periods of physical, mental, and social well-being.

Answer 5

-TRUE

Question 6

Mental health is

Answer 6

-All of the above

Question 7

The Philippines has a National Mental Health Program or Mental Health Policy (Administrative Order #8 s.2001). This policy aims to promote a better quality of mental health care in the country, to reduce the burden of mental illness, and to protect the rights of people afflicted by mental illnesses.

Answer 7

-TRUE

Question 8

Programs of the Department of Health under the Mental Policy includes the following EXCEPT.

Answer 8

-None of the answers

Question 9

Poor mental health increase the risk for long-lasting (chronic) physical conditions like

Answer 9

-All of the above

Question 10

The purpose of this law is to incorporate comprehensive mental health services into the Philippines’s national healthcare, for accessible mental healthcare especially to the impoverished and those at high risk.

Answer 10

-A and C are correct

Question 11

Republic At No. 110036 is otherwise known as the

Answer 11

-FALSE