Deck 14: How Psychosocial Factors Affect Health Behavior

Question 1

Which of the following was the leading cause of death in the United States in the year 1900?

A) Tuberculosis
B) Pneumonia
C) Diphtheria
D) Enteritis

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following was the leading cause of death in the United States in the year 2017?

A) Diabetes
B) Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
C) Cancer
D) Heart Disease

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The educational messages most guaranteed to generate controversy are those concerning which of the following?

A) Tobacco use
B) Alcohol use
C) Illicit drug use
D) Sexual behavior

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In 2005, an analysis done by scientists from the CDC and the National Cancer Institute found that being moderately overweight was actually protective, especially in older people, although obesity still caused premature deaths.

Question 5

Educational efforts to modify health-related behavior can be controversial, even when the messages seem benign and obvious.

Question 6

There is no scientific evidence supporting the fact that students who have received comprehensive sex education in school delay initiation of sex, reduce the number of partners, and are more likely to use contraception when they do have sex.

Question 7

The first federal government statement on smoking came in 1964.

Question 8

Though the specific emphasis has changed over time, the federal government has long provided information to citizens on healthy eating.

Question 9

The incidence of smoking decreases with increasing education level.

Question 10

Obamacare required all U.S. restaurant chains to provide calorie information with their menus.

Question 11

________________ accounts for 30 percent of all cancer deaths and 21 percent of cardiovascular disease deaths.

Question 12

The fact that toxic agents are listed fifth as an actual cause of death is evidence of successes in _______________________.

Question 13

Prohibition of various substances, such as recreational drugs, has shown _______________________ success.

Question 14

whats the following diseases to the number of deaths in 1900.
-40,362 deaths

Question 15

whats the following diseases to the number of deaths in 1900.
-38,820 deaths

Question 16

whats the following diseases to the number of deaths in 1900.
-27,427 deaths

Question 17

whats the following diseases to the number of deaths in 1900.
-12,769 deaths

Question 18

whats the diseases to the number of deaths in 2017.
-647,457 deaths

Question 19

whats the diseases to the number of deaths in 2017.
-599,108 deaths

Question 20

whats the diseases to the number of deaths in 2017.
-121,404 deaths

Question 21

whats the diseases to the number of deaths in 2017.
-83,564 deaths

Question 22

Of the 435,000 deaths attributed to tobacco smoking in 2000, how many were caused by second-hand smoke?

A) 15,000
B) 30,000
C) 45,000
D) 60,000

Question 23

Once AIDS was introduced, what controversy became more intense because it meant that sexual behavior could be a matter of life and death?

A) Monogamy
B) Homosexuality
C) Sex education in schools
D) Use of condoms

Question 24

Which of the following was among the top 5 causes of death in 1900 and 2017

A) Cancer
B) Heart Disease
C) Cancer
D) Tuberculosis

Question 25

The behavioral choices of individuals is now the biggest challenge faced by public health.

Question 26

Opponents of explicit education about safe sex feel that young people should be taught that they can protect themselves only by abstinence.

Question 27

When public health is broadly defined, even murder and assault are public health issues.

Question 28

Public controversy over immunization laws began in the 1800s.

Question 29

During Prohibition, the rate of cirrhosis of the live declined to half that of 1910.

Question 30

Official legal restrictions on those infected with venereal diseases began to appear in the 19th century.

Question 31

The political power of gay men in the last quarter of the 20th century was much greater than that of prostitutes in the 19th century, leading to rather different legal solutions with regard to sexually transmitted diseases at those times.

Question 32

The ______________________ to health education has become popular with college administrators to curb high-risk student drinking.

Question 33

The __________________ is clearly warranted when its intent is to restrain people from harming others.

Question 34

Prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol came in __________________ with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Question 35

Whats to the appropriate year of the event?
-Supreme Court decision Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts upheld the state's right to require vaccination for the common good

Question 36

Whats to the appropriate year of the event?
-Prohibition was passed by a constitutional amendment

Question 37

Whats to the appropriate year of the event?
-New York State's decision to close bathhouses in New York City was upheld by the courts

Question 38

Whats to the appropriate year of the event?
-Surgeon General issued the report Smoking and Health, the first authoritative statement from the federal government that smoking caused cancer and other life-threatening diseases

Question 39

Whats the appropriate characteristic of the person?
-Forced to resign from the position of Surgeon General after speaking openly regarding the use of condoms and masturbation

Question 40

Whats the appropriate characteristic of the person?
-Instituted the "Just Say No" antidrug campaign

Question 41

Whats the appropriate characteristic of the person?
-Wrote 2009 column entitle " Drugs Won the War" noting that the United States incarcerates people at a rate nearly five times the world average