Deck 14: Application of Theory: High-Risk and Special Populations

Question 1

The __________ approach stirred controversy in some quarters, but experience and data have shown that it "meets people where they are" in the sense that it focuses on key health effects of a person's behavior while not judging or overcategorizing the person as a whole.

A) generative
B) ecological
C) harm reduction
D) risk and protective factor

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following is an approach that focuses on the context and the integration of factors, including the ways that "risk-behaving individuals" construct and organize their actions?

A) Generative approach
B) Ecological approach
C) Harm reduction approach
D) Risk and protective factor approach

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which term refers to a broad category of behavior that is itself a "health" problem, so it is the behavior that is the ultimate target?

A) Salience
B) Resilience
C) Violence
D) Dependence

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The role of community health workers and outreach workers draws from which of the following, where intravenous drug users are addressed based on their readiness to modify specific HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, or even their drug use?

A) The Health Belief Model
B) The Transtheoretical Model
C) Harm reduction approach
D) Risk and protective factor approach

Question 5

Which approach sets up an overall predictive relationship where the nature of exposure increases or decreases the likelihood that a given youth will engage in high-risk behaviors?

A) The Health Belief Model
B) The Transtheoretical Model
C) Harm reduction approach
D) Risk and protective factor approach

Question 6

Federal funding was banned for which type of programs until early 2016, when the ban was lifted by Congress?

A) Needle exchange programs
B) Dissemination of risk reduction kits
C) Drug substitution treatment
D) Employment of community health outreach workers

Question 7

Public health theory and the ecological model, in general, do not acknowledge a range of broader social and cultural factors that together influence behavior.

Question 8

The need for measurable results in a short period of time has tended to favor the use of theories and models that meet the shorter-term need, creating a bias in the research literature.

Question 9

Clustering of risk factors has been treated as indicating an oppositional or "nonconventional" worldview.

Question 10

Marginalized and socioeconomically segregated populations often engage in health risk behavior with goals in mind that relate to life situations of limit, threat, alienation, and mistrust, with correspondingly different understandings of what is and is not a risk.