Professional Nursing Concepts & Challenges, 8th Edition By Beth Black
Professional Nursing Concepts & Challenges, 8th Edition By Beth Black
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Chapter 14: Health Care in the United States
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
MULTIPLE CHOICE
| a. | Eliminating health disparities |
| b. | Creating environments that promote good health |
| c. | Lengthening the average lifespan by a decade |
| d. | Attaining longer lives free of preventable diseases and injury |
ANS: C
| Feedback | |
| A | Eliminating health disparities is part of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2020. |
| B | Creating social and physical environments that promote good health is part of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2020. |
| C | Lengthening the average lifespan by itself is not one of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2020. |
| D | Attaining longer lives free of preventable disease and injury is part of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2020. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: Page 280
| a. | Talking to a women’s church group about having an annual mammogram |
| b. | Establishing an exercise program for postmenopausal women to reduce bone loss |
| c. | Providing colonoscopy examinations for high-risk individuals |
| d. | Talking to a state legislator about supporting a motorcycle helmet law |
ANS: A
| Feedback | |
| A | Health promotion and maintenance involves activities to assist individuals to remain healthy, prevent diseases and injuries, detect diseases early, and promote healthier lifestyles. Mammograms can detect disease early. |
| B | Establishing an exercise group to reduce bone loss is illness prevention based on the presence of risk factors. |
| C | Having a colonoscopy examination is illness prevention based on risk factors. |
| D | Speaking to a state legislator about supporting a helmet law may or may not lead to changes in the law. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page 280
| a. | Viewing a program on television about the increased incidence of heart disease |
| b. | Speaking to a high school group about the value of exercise |
| c. | Encouraging women at a health fair to have an annual mammogram |
| d. | Counseling people recently experiencing death of a spouse about signs and symptoms of depression |
ANS: D
| Feedback | |
| A | At best this is an example of health promotion, although health promotion requires active participation. Watching a program on television is passive but could provide health-promoting education. |
| B | Speaking to high school groups about exercise is an example of health promotion. |
| C | Health promotion includes early detection, and the goal of screening for breast cancer is early detection, not prevention. |
| D | Illness prevention is used when a person is already at risk for development of a health problem because of behavior or circumstance. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page 281
| a. | addresses identified health problems. |
| b. | occurs before the identification of disease risk factors. |
| c. | identifies and ameliorates a health problem. |
| d. | returns an individual to optimal functioning after an illness. |
ANS: B
| Feedback | |
| A | Health promotion is focused on helping prevent health problems. |
| B | The goal of health promotion is to keep the person healthy and involved in healthy lifestyles to prevent the development of risk factors. |
| C | Health promotion does not identify health problems. |
| D | Returning to optimal function occurs with rehabilitation. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page 281
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