Question 1

Using the Health Belief Model, it is assumed that no single factor influences people's behavior; instead, the complex interaction between individuals and an environment is a process that, taken together, influences behavior.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

Health behavior may be based on ideas about being healthy that are different from the standards of health common to Western medicine.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 3

The Rio Declaration of 2011 states that which of the following arises from the societal condition in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, referred to as social determinants of health?

Accepted Answer

A)   Health inequity
B)   Health literacy
C)   Health behavior
D)   Health advocacy A

Question 4

For many cultures, being thin is not viewed as healthy, as a large man that we would consider to be overweight would be viewed as healthy and "doing well."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The more recent focus on the multiplicity of influences on behavior is representative of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)   Health Belief Model
B)   Ecological Model
C)   Transtheoretical Model
D)   Social Cognitive Theory

Question 6

The perspective on public health problems advocated by the World Health Organization, known as the social determinants approach, is embodied in which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)   Belmont Report
B)   Heckler Report
C)   Declaration of Helsinki
D)   Rio Declaration of 2011

Question 7

The presence of discrimination would represent which type of factor that contributes to the behavior of individuals?

Accepted Answer

A)   Individual factor
B)   Social/Cultural/Group factor
C)   Socioeconomic and Structural factor
D)   Political factor

Question 8

The idea that complex interaction between individuals and an environment, taken together, influences behavior is keeping with the perspective on public health problems advocated by which agency?

Accepted Answer

A)   United Nations
B)   World Health Organization
C)   National Institutes of Health
D)   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 9

There is an entire field of study and practice concerning the complex nature of health behavior.

Accepted Answer