Full Test Bank Ch.17 Nutrition Education Public Health - Test Bank | Public Health Nutrition 4e Edelstein by Sari Edelstein. DOCX document preview.
1. In the past 35 years, death due to heart disease has declined 45% due to dietary changes.
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2. Luckily, due to more attention on nutrition, there is enough money for nutrition education campaigns.
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3. Nutrition education is mostly made to promote positive behavior change.
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4. Focusing on general behavior patterns have brought more success than specifically focused plans.
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5. Mass media educational programs have been more successful than interpersonal contact.
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6. Cultural competence by educators has been one of the barriers in changing behavior.
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7. Health professionals collectively are responsible solely for the health of the public.
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8. The national headquarters for nutrition professionals is called the American Dietetic Association.
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9. In teamwork, there is not an emphasis on one individual.
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10. Teams are made to solve problems utilizing different perspectives.
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- Why is nutrition education important?
- Improves knowledge of the nutrient content of foods.
- Helps individuals to make healthy dietary choices.
- Helps as a preventative measure to reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
- All of the above.
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- Challenges faced by nutrition educators are:
- Too much money is available for assisting nutrition education campaigns.
- Media airs advertisements for fast foods, sugary foods, and foods with high fat content.
- Nutrition education campaigns are too expensive.
- Individuals are already knowledgeable about healthy dietary choices.
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- Schools in Georgia want to design an effective nutrition education campaign to improve the consumption of healthy foods in school children. The campaign should:
- Focus on providing knowledge of foods and nutrition only.
- Emphasize a specific behavior pattern like eating more fruits.
- Provide knowledge of nutrition as well as emphasize a specific behavior pattern.
- Emphasize a reduction in consumption of junk foods only.
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- An effective nutrition education campaign must:
- Have limited contact hours with the population.
- Identify and focus on a target population.
- Have multiple messages included.
- All of the above.
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- A school system wants to plan a nutrition education campaign to address the needs of a student body that includes Caucasians, African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans. For this campaign to be effective, it must:
- Prepare all the educational materials in English.
- Involve all English-speaking personnel.
- Plan for a culturally and linguistically appropriate program.
- Involve only the food service personnel.
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16. ____________ competence by educators has been one of the barriers in changing behavior.
A. Financial
B. Cultural
C. Linguistical
D. B and C
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17. ________________ collectively are responsible solely for the health of the public.
A. Health professionals
B. Everyone
C. The Public
D. None of the above
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18. The national headquarters for nutrition professionals is called the _______________.
A. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
B. American Dietetic Association
C. National Dietetic Association
D. None of the above
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19. In ___________, there is not an emphasis on one individual.
A. Teamwork
B. Reflections
C. Agriculture
D. None of the above
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20. Teams are made to solve problems utilizing different ___________________.
A. Perspectives
B. Call-outs
C. Roundtables
D. None of the above
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21. Dietary factors have been linked to the following causes of death:
- Coronary heart disease, accidents, some types of cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease
- Coronary heart disease, strokes, some types of cancer. and type 2 diabetes
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases, strokes, some types of cancer, and type 2 diabetes
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases, strokes, some types of cancer. and accidents
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22. A major barrier faced by nutrition educators is:
- Lack of quality nutritional education programs in universities
- Lack of linguistically and culturally appropriate services
- Lack of interest in the public for this field
- All of the above
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23. Some important members of a public health team are:
- Nutritionists, physicians, psychologists, and social workers
- Health educators, physicians, psychologists, and physicists
- Dietitians, pharmacists, forensic scientists, and social workers
- Nutritionists, physicians, dentists, and veterinarians
- Both A and D
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24. The first stage for teams is:
- Zeroing in on the objectives
- Storming, Forming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning
- Forming, Storming, Performing, Norming and Adjourning
- Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing, and Adjourning
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25. One of the strategies to ensure the proper functioning of a team is:
- Including only those members in the team who agree to abide by well-laid-out rules
- Accentuating a participatory style
- Zeroing in on the objectives
- Both B and C
- A, B and C
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26. The Team Nutrition initiative was developed to:
- Increase awareness of nutritional issues in the Hispanic population
- Increase awareness of nutritional issues in minority populations
- Improve the nutritional quality of meals served to school children
- Improve performance of athletic teams by changing their nutrition
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27. The last stage of working in teams is:
- Zeroing in on the objectives
- Establishing a time line
- Define outcomes
- Discuss and resolve all problems together
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28. Helping individuals of all ages increase life expectancy and improve their quality of life is one of the goals of the _____ initiative developed by the _____.
- Managed Lives/Healthy Lives, USDA
- Healthy People, US Public Health Service
- Managed Lives/Healthy Lives, US Public Health Service
- Healthy People, USDA
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29. _____ factors have been linked to dietary factors in the leading cause of death.
- 4 out of 10
- 2 out of 10
- 3 out of 10
- None of the above
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30. The National Academic Award program was developed in 1997 by:
- United States Department of Agriculture
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Dietetic Association of America
- National Cancer Institute
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