Deck 3: Communicating About Health and Climate Change

Question 1

Using the public health wheel, which of the following essential public health services would fall under the assessment category?

A) Assure competent workforce
B) Enforce laws
C) Diagnose and investigate
D) Inform, educate, and empower

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which model stresses the importance of influential factors on an individual's thinking?

A) Health belief model
B) Social cognitive model
C) Precaution adoption principle model
D) Stages of change

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Members of this segment of Global Warming's Six Americas tend to believe that global warming is happening, but they are less certain that humans caused global warming.

A) The Alarmed
B) The Concerned
C) The Cautious
D) The Disengaged

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which strategy would be most effective with people in the "Cautious" group of Global Warming's Six Americas?

A) Give them the tools to become voices for a better future.
B) Provide training on letter writing and visiting policymakers.
C) Show them how to work with others to create a consistent and unified grassroots solution.
D) Educate them on the fact that Americans are being harmed today by the effects of climate change.

Question 5

Why is the Health Frame a highly effective way to discuss global warming?

A) It shows the economic implications of climate change.
B) It addresses the moral obligation by showing people how climate change affects them and the next generation.
C) It helps people to relate to and form an appropriate response to climate change.
D) It focuses on the threats to national security.

Question 6

_____________________ is responsible for the majority of 10% of greenhouse gases that are generated in the United States from the agricultural sector.

A) Meat production
B) Use of fertilizers
C) Plowing plants back into the fields
D) Genetically modified produce

Question 7

_____________________ helps bring people together, even when they have very different ways of thinking.

A) Customizing messages
B) Focusing on solutions
C) Illustrative stories
D) Self-efficacy

Question 8

Which of the following strategies should be used for effective communication?

A) Provide long explanations to ensure the audience understands the message
B) State extraneous facts
C) Avoid repetition
D) Find ways to state your message early and often

Question 9

How should a message about climate-related issues and health risk always be finished?

A) By providing a hopeful vision that conveys how humans have the ability to positively affect solutions
B) By reminding the audience of the dangers of climate change
C) By customizing messages to the audience's beliefs and culture
D) By allowing the audience to ask questions

Question 10

Which of the following is essential to a person taking appropriate action on climate change?

A) Accepting the fact that humans caused climate change
B) Understanding that climate changes harms health
C) Working together
D) Reducing heat-trapping pollution

Question 11

According to findings from the Climate Change in the American Mind project, a majority of people fall into the "Disengaged" category.

Question 12

Research has documented that most Americans do not perceive global warming as a personal threat.

Question 13

A majority of the general public does not believe that carbon dioxide should be regulated as a pollutant.

Question 14

When communicating about climate and health as a health professional, it is okay to focus on the health risk factors that you are most comfortable speaking about.

Question 15

In order for a person to take appropriate action on climate change, they must believe that it is solvable.