Exam 1: Foundations of Personal Health

The "times-greater chance" a person has of acquiring a specific negative health effect based on the extent to which a certain variable is present is called _____.

The traditional "medical treatment model"of the health continuum places emphasis on striving for a higher quality of life.

Many health issues, including stress, mental health, nutrition, drug use, and disease, are strongly related to culture.

How well one is able to perform the activities of daily living without undue fatigue is indicative of the _____ dimension of health.

The contemporary perspective on health is that it is:

Frauds and hoaxes in the health market are still _____.

People tend to have a greater fear of radiation from cell phones than from _____, which actually presents a much greater risk.

A health behavior theory is a conceptual framework of important factors or variables that are thought to influence health behavior.

Attitudes, beliefs, and values regarding our personal health are shaped by our personalities.

The annual death rate from lung cancer among nonsmokers is _____ deaths per 100,000 people.

Advertisers shape consumer desire and product value by presenting products as having the power to change buyers into:

Disease-causing microbes that are an increasing threat to food supplies and health are known as _____.

The most important factors involved in good health are those associated with:

The stages of change model was initially developed in order to understand:

For Americans in the age group 20-29, the leading cause of death is:

People are more afraid of a risk they choose to take than one imposed on them.

Which of the following theories is based on the principle that behavior is dynamic, depending on individual and environmental factors, all of which influence one another simultaneously?

The current view of health is that it is multidimensional.

Which of the following is true of self-directed learning?

The health belief model of _____ was developed to understand why so few people participated in health screening programs such as mammograms for breast cancer.