Deck 17: Leveraging Nutrition Education Through the Public Health Team

Question 1

In the past 35 years, death due to heart disease has declined 45% due to dietary changes.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Luckily, due to more attention on nutrition, there is enough money for nutrition education campaigns.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Nutrition education is mostly made to promote positive behavior change.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Focusing on general behavior patterns have brought more success than specifically focused plans.

Question 5

Mass media educational programs have been more successful than interpersonal contact.

Question 6

Cultural competence by educators has been one of the barriers in changing behavior.

Question 7

Health professionals collectively are responsible solely for the health of the public.

Question 8

The national headquarters for nutrition professionals is called the American Dietetic Association.

Question 9

In teamwork, there is not an emphasis on one individual.

Question 10

Teams are made to solve problems utilizing different perspectives.

Question 11

Why is nutrition education important?

A) Improves knowledge of the nutrient content of foods.
B) Helps individuals to make healthy dietary choices.
C) Helps as a preventative measure to reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
D) All of the above.

Question 12

Challenges faced by nutrition educators are:

A) Too much money is available for assisting nutrition education campaigns.
B) Media airs advertisements for fast foods, sugary foods, and foods with high fat content.
C) Nutrition education campaigns are too expensive.
D) Individuals are already knowledgeable about healthy dietary choices.

Question 13

Schools in Georgia want to design an effective nutrition education campaign to improve the consumption of healthy foods in school children. The campaign should:

A) Focus on providing knowledge of foods and nutrition only.
B) Emphasize a specific behavior pattern like eating more fruits.
C) Provide knowledge of nutrition as well as emphasize a specific behavior pattern.
D) Emphasize a reduction in consumption of junk foods only.

Question 14

An effective nutrition education campaign must:

A) Have limited contact hours with the population.
B) Identify and focus on a target population.
C) Have multiple messages included.
D) All of the above.

Question 15

A school system wants to plan a nutrition education campaign to address the needs of a student body that includes Caucasians, African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. For this campaign to be effective, it must:

A) Prepare all the educational materials in English.
B) Involve all English-speaking personnel.
C) Plan for a culturally and linguistically appropriate program.
D) Involve only the food service personnel.

Question 16

____________ competence by educators has been one of the barriers in changing behavior.

A) Financial
B) Cultural
C) Linguistical
D) B and C

Question 17

________________ collectively are responsible solely for the health of the public.

A) Health professionals
B) Everyone
C) The Public
D) None of the above

Question 18

The national headquarters for nutrition professionals is called the _______________.

A) Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
B) American Dietetic Association
C) National Dietetic Association
D) None of the above

Question 19

In ___________, there is not an emphasis on one individual.

A) Teamwork
B) Reflections
C) Agriculture
D) None of the above

Question 20

Teams are made to solve problems utilizing different ___________________.

A) Perspectives
B) Call-outs
C) Roundtables
D) None of the above

Question 21

Dietary factors have been linked to the following causes of death:

A) Coronary heart disease, accidents, some types of cancer, and Alzheimer's disease
B) Coronary heart disease, strokes, some types of cancer. and type 2 diabetes
C) Chronic lower respiratory diseases, strokes, some types of cancer, and type 2 diabetes
D) Chronic lower respiratory diseases, strokes, some types of cancer. and accidents

Question 22

A major barrier faced by nutrition educators is:

A) Lack of quality nutritional education programs in universities
B) Lack of linguistically and culturally appropriate services
C) Lack of interest in the public for this field
D) All of the above

Question 23

Some important members of a public health team are:

A) Nutritionists, physicians, psychologists, and social workers
B) Health educators, physicians, psychologists, and physicists
C) Dietitians, pharmacists, forensic scientists, and social workers
D) Nutritionists, physicians, dentists, and veterinarians
E) Both A and D

Question 24

The first stage for teams is:

A) Zeroing in on the objectives
B) Storming, Forming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning
C) Forming, Storming, Performing, Norming and Adjourning
D) Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing, and Adjourning

Question 25

One of the strategies to ensure the proper functioning of a team is:

A) Including only those members in the team who agree to abide by well-laid-out rules
B) Accentuating a participatory style
C) Zeroing in on the objectives
D) Both B and C
E) A, B and C

Question 26

The Team Nutrition initiative was developed to:

A) Increase awareness of nutritional issues in the Hispanic population
B) Increase awareness of nutritional issues in minority populations
C) Improve the nutritional quality of meals served to school children
D) Improve performance of athletic teams by changing their nutrition

Question 27

The last stage of working in teams is:

A) Zeroing in on the objectives
B) Establishing a time line
C) Define outcomes
D) Discuss and resolve all problems together

Question 28

Helping individuals of all ages increase life expectancy and improve their quality of life is one of the goals of the _____ initiative developed by the _____.

A) Managed Lives/Healthy Lives, USDA
B) Healthy People, US Public Health Service
C) Managed Lives/Healthy Lives, US Public Health Service
D) Healthy People, USDA

Question 29

_____ factors have been linked to dietary factors in the leading cause of death.

A) 4 out of 10
B) 2 out of 10
C) 3 out of 10
D) None of the above

Question 30

The National Academic Award program was developed in 1997 by:

A) United States Department of Agriculture
B) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
C) Dietetic Association of America
D) National Cancer Institute