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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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?

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?

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?

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

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.