Exam 12: Principles of Planning Effective Community Nutrition Programs

Kendra is calculating the value of the resources that must be used to develop, implement, and operate the program being analyzed. These values are also known as:

Cost-benefit analysis of a nutrition program is the evaluation of the costs of a program in relation to health outcome.

Which of the following involves collecting and analyzing data from available demographic and health statistics to prepare the community diagnosis and problem list?

A public health nutritionist is hired to assess the community. She should use objective data such as demographic and vital statistics to generate a problem list and diagnosis for the community, and she also should use death certificates that provide information on causes of death (mortality).

Program evaluation is the method for determining whether a service was truly needed, whether it was conducted as planned, and whether objectives were carried out or planned activities were completed.

Katie is a recently hired public health nutritionist who is evaluating a current wellness program at a corporate business. She concluded that the program did not perform well with the issues concerning the program. This means that the program did not have an adequate level of:

The data collected through subjective and/or objective data may be used in writing a mission statement. The mission statement for nutrition services does not need to be written in relation to the agency's mission statement.

When designing an action plan you should consider creating a more _______________ environment and using communication as a technique.

A concise statement of the methods, activities, or intervention strategies to be undertaken is the definition of program evaluation.

A community and public health nutritionist working in a nonprofit organization can reduce the cost of the program and enhance efficiency by linking budgets to activity.

A public health nutritionist was asked to write a mission statement. The mission statement must be clear, brief, concise, realistic, and inspirational.

Planning nutritional and dietary classes is not one of the roles of a nutritionist.

Program is a collection of activities intended to produce a particular outcome.

Which of the following data collection methods is a nondirective research technique in which the participant is invited to "tell me the story about your health condition, starting with when you first noticed anything was wrong," and the only prompts used are "tell me more about that" or "what happened next?"

To assess the extent of hunger in the community, a nutritionist may collect data on local food costs, household resources, and barriers that constrain individuals or families from obtaining adequate food.

Jonathan is a nutritionist who wants to create a wellness program at the homeless shelter in his town. He will start by assessing the need for a program. This is known as what type of evaluation?

It is time for Kevin to take the next step in the development of his nutrition program and select a data-collection method. Which of the following is not a commonly used data-collection method in nutrition programs?

Subjective data analysis involves the collection and analysis of data on the various clients' perceived needs.

The implementation phase of program planning is different from the execution of the program plan.

In which phase of the program planning process must the clients, providers, and administrators select the best plan to solve the original problem?