Question

1. Diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, are the greatest cause of death among young adults. True or False

2. The basic idea in using an ecological model is to look at the inner layers of a problem and work on solutions to those first. True or False

3. Of the major factors affecting health outcomes, which is the largest individual contributing factor

A. Healthcare

b. Genetics and health

c. Individual behavior

d. Social and environmental factors

4. What is it called when the brain deals with overload by simplifying and linking new information to what we already know?

A. Selective perception

B. heuristics

C. Schema

D. availability

5. Contrast effect is when we attribute our own characteristics to others. True or False

6. The SMOG provides an estimate of the number of college degrees needed to understand prose material. True or False

7. Which of the following is not identified as “clear and effective” written material by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services?

A. Attract the reader's attention

B. Make the reader feel respected and understood

c. moving the reader to action

D. tell them how to handle their healthcare

8. A person’s health is closely connected to the environment with natural conditions or biologic materials impacting a person’s health; disease occurs impersonally” is a definition of which of the following

A. Literacy

B. Numeracy

C. Personalistic disease theory

D. naturalistic disease theory

9. Which of the following is a negative effect of poor health literacy?

A. Being less likely to immunize oneself

B. Participating in preventative healthcare

C. Having trouble accessing health insurance

D. Spend two days longer in the hospital

10. The uses and gratifications theory (UGT) considers why and how beliefs lead to the formation of attitudes. True or False

11. Self-efficacy is described as:

A. a sense of personal capability.

B. how your thoughts and your actions align.

C. beliefs about being at risk of a disease.

D.your ability to influence others to action.

12. Which approach is considered to offer few individual benefits but might yield collective population value

A. Social Marketing

B.Policy Approaches

C. Health communication

D. Community-based prevention marketing

13. The most important information should be at the beginning of the message  True or False

14. If you are directing communications to a group based on general information about the demographic groups they belong to, you are:

A. targeting

B. tailoring

C.flocking

D. grouping

15. Using data in health messaging is less effective for which group?

A. Individuals with low numeracy

B.Individuals with low levels of emotional involvement

C.Individuals less familiar with the topic or situation

D.Individuals whose position is supported by the data

16. Reach is the number of times you can get your message to your audience.  True or False

17.According to recent data, which media source is considered the most powerful channel for quickly reaching a large number of people?

A.Print

B.Social Media

C.Broadcast media

D.Pamphlets

18. Settings include places where an audience goes to receive your message and places where the media reaches them, like radio and television programs and online environments. True or False

19. Primary data is data that you get from existing sources such as the local health department or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. True or False

20.Outcome evaluation documents how the program got started True or False

21. Written and visual communication and verbal messages are the primary vehicles of information exchange. True or False

22. In order to attain and sustain health behavior change, knowledge alone should be sufficient. True or False

23. The most common method businesses use to quantify the value of workplace health programs is through measuring their return on investment (ROI) True or False

24. Which piece of technology involves connecting employees with health professions using audio-visual capabilities?

A. Health apps

B. wearables

C. Telemedicine

D. social media

Answer 1

1. Answer. False

Diseases such as heart disease and cancer are mostly major cause of death in older adults and not the younger adult population. The young adults comparatively do not have the death prevalence of these disease in that young age group

2. Answer. False

The basic idea in using an ecological model is to look at the outer and environmental factors of the problems and based on the analysis of these factors the solutions are found depending on the priority basis

3. Answer Option C. Individual behavior

Option C is correct as out of all the factors the individual behavior is the one factor that has largest contribution towards health outcome. This is due to the fact that individual behavioral actions are the one that contributes towards various substance abuse, addiction, consumption of unhealthy materials which can have a profound impact on the health outcome of the individual

Option A is correct as healthcare does have impact on accessibility to quality care but is not largest individual contributing factor that is affecting health outcomes

Option B is incorrect as genetic factors do not largely contribute towards major health outcomes in most individuals

Option D is incorrect as social and environmental factors do have a passive effect on health outcomes but is is not largest individual contributing factor that is affecting health outcomes

4. Answer Option B. Heuristics

Option B is correct as it is heuristics method that is used when the brain deals with overload by simplifying and linking new information to what we already know

Option A is incorrect is the tendency or ability to notice particular things quickly and respond to it accordingly

Option C is incorrect as schema is a pattern of behavior or thoughts and not related to heuristics

Option D is incorrect as availability and not brain new information linkage