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Health Promotion Throughout The Life Span
9th Edition
1. Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive health care?
a. Clinical model
b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model ANS: A
The clinical model of health ...
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Health Promotion Throughout The Life Span
9th Edition
Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
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Chapter 01: Health Defined
Edelman: Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which model of health is most likely used by a person who does not believe in preventive
health care?
a. Clinical model
b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model
ANS: A
The clinical model of health views the absence of signs and symptoms of disease as indicative of
health. People who use this model wait until they are very sick to seek care.
2. A person with chronic back pain is cared for by her primary care provider as well as receives
acupuncture. Which model of health does this person likely favor?
a. Clinical model
b. Role performance model
c. Adaptive model
d. Eudaimonistic model
ANS: D
The eudaimonistic model embodies the interaction and interrelationships among physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment in goal attainment and creating
meaning in life. Practitioners who practice the clinical model may not be enough for someone
who believes in the eudaimonistic model. Those who believe in the eudaimonistic model often
look for alternative providers of care.
3. A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a persons potential
and is experienced within a developmental context is known as:
a. growth and development.
b. health.
c. functioning.
d. high-level
wellness.ANS: B
Health is defined as a state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a
persons potential and is experienced within a developmental context.
4. Which of the following best describes a client who has an illness?
a. Someone who has well-controlled diabetes
b. Someone with hypercholesterolemia
c. Someone with a headache
d. Someone with coronary artery disease without
anginaANS: C
,Someone with a headache represents a person with an illness. An illness is made up of the
subjective experience of the individual and the physical manifestation of disease. It can be
described as a response characterized by a mismatch between a persons needs and the resources
available to meet those needs. A person can have a disease without feeling ill. The other choices
represent disease.
5. Which US report is considered a landmark document in creating a global approach to health?
a. The 1990 Health Objectives for the Nation: A Midcourse Review
b. Healthy People 2020
c. Healthy People 2000
d. The U.S. Surgeon General Report
ANS: C
Healthy People 2000 and its Midcourse Review and 1995 Revisions were landmark documentsin
which a consortium of people representing national organizations worked with US Public Health
Service officials to create a more global approach to health.
6. Which of the following represents a method of primary prevention?
a. Informational session about healthy lifestyles
b. Blood pressure screening
c. Interventional cardiac catheterization
d. Diagnostic cardiac
catheterizationANS: A
Primary prevention precedes disease or dysfunction. It includes health promotion and specific
protection and encourages increased awareness; thus, education about healthy lifestyles fits this
definition. Blood pressure screening does not prevent disease, but instead identifies it.
7. Which of the following represents a method of secondary prevention?
a. Selfbreast examination education
b. Yearly mammograms
c. Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer
d. Complete mastectomy for breast
cancerANS: B
Screening is secondary prevention because the principal goal of screenings is to identify
individuals in an early, detectable stage of the disease process. A mammogram is a screening
tool for breast cancer and thus is considered a method of secondary prevention.
8. Which of the following represents a method of tertiary prevention?
a. Drunk driving campaign
b. Road blocks for drunk driving
c. Emergency surgery for head trauma after a motor vehicle accident
d. Physical and occupational therapy after a motor vehicle accident with head trauma
ANS: D
Physical therapy and occupational therapy are considered tertiary prevention. Tertiary
preventionoccurs when a defect or disability is permanent and irreversible. It involves minimizing
the effectof disease and disability. The objective of tertiary prevention is to maximize remaining
capacities.
, 9. In reviewing a persons medical claims, a nurse realizes that the individual with moderate
persistent asthma has had several emergency department visits and is not on inhaled steroids
asrecommended by the NHLBI asthma management guidelines. The nurse discusses this with
thepersons primary care provider. In this scenario, the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator
.
ANS: B
Care managers act to prevent duplication of service and reduce cost. Care managers base
recommendation on reliable data sources such as evidence-based practices and protocols.
10. During a home visit, a nurse assists an individual to complete an application for disability
services. The nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator
.
ANS: A
The advocacy role of the nurse helps individuals obtain what they are entitled to receive from the
health care system, tries to make the system more responsive to individuals community needs,
and assists individuals in developing skills to advocate for themselves.
11. During a home visit, a nurse discusses the dangers of smoking with an individual. In this
scenario the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator
.
ANS: D
Health education is a primary prevention technique available to avoid major causes of disease.
Teaching can range from a chance remark to a planned lesson.
12. A nurse is asked to provide an expert opinion about the development of an education
program for newly diagnosed diabetics. In this scenario, the nurse is acting as a(n):
a. advocate.
b. care manager.
c. consultant.
d. educator
.
ANS: C
Nurses with a specialized area of expertise provide education about health promotion and disease
prevention to individuals and groups as consultants.
13. A nurse is planning to deliver an educational program to individuals with diabetes. Which of
the following should be the initial action taken by the nurse to ensure the success of the
program?
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