New Dimensions in Women's Health, Fourth Edition

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These Practice Quizzes test your knowledge of the important concepts in each chapter and provide an explanation for each answer.

Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: Which of the following statements concerning prevention programs is NOT true?
	A: Disease prevention efforts are only rarely successful at reducing human costs such as pain, anxiety, or inconvenience.
	B: STD prevention programs and preconception care programs can save money by preventing expensive downstream medical care.
	C: Health insurers have begun to recognize the economic value of disease prevention efforts.
	D: Obesity in the U.S. costs billions of dollars in addition to its direct medical costs.

2: Which of the following actions is an example of primary prevention?
	A: alleviating the pain of a terminally ill, hospitalized patient
	B: eating a nutritious diet
	C: getting annual clinical exams to monitor high blood pressure
	D: using radiation to stop the spread of prostate cancer

3: Which of the following statements are estimated to be true of the U.S. population by 2030?
	A: Half of all women will be over the age of 65.
	B: White, non-Hispanic women will compose a minority of the total female population.
	C: The proportion of Asian-American and Hispanic women in the population will be significantly higher than it is now.
	D: All of the above

4: In 2002, the disease burden of ________, measured in the percentage of Daily Adjusted Life Years, was greater for women than for men.
	A: violence
	B: depressive disorders
	C: tuberculosis
	D: alcoholism

5: Smokers are most likely to pick up their habit during which of the following age periods?
	A: From the ages of 7 to 11
	B: From the ages of 12 to 17
	C: From the ages of 18 to 23
	D: From the ages of 24 to 28

6: Which of the following actions is a secondary preventive measure that young adult women should practice?
	A: having STD screening for those at high-risk
	B: taking medication to control chronic diseases
	C: eating a nutritious diet
	D: having annual endoscopic exams

7: Roughly _______ of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned.
	A: 0.1
	B: 0.2
	C: 0.5
	D: 0.75

8: During the midlife years, _________ such as ___________ become more important than ever for women.
	A: primary prevention measures; eating a balanced diet and avoiding tobacco and alcohol
	B: tertiary prevention measures; colonoscopies and x-rays
	C: secondary prevention measures; mammograms and colonoscopies
	D: tertiary prevention measures; pap tests, screening for high cholesterol levels

9: Websites with _______ at the end of their html addresses are sometimes run by commercial organizations.
	A: .edu
	B: .org
	C: .gov
	D: All of the above

10: Which of the following statements is true?
	A: Information about new or controversial topics is often lacking on the Internet.
	B: Assessing the credibility and the accuracy of medical information on the Web is often difficult
	C: Commercial Web sites never contain accurate information.
	D: In the near future, health-related Web sites could largely replace communication with a health care provider.

11: Prevalence is the number of new cases of disease that occur within a period of time.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

12: In 2002, men lost more daily-adjusted life years of their lives to violence than women.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

13: Professional tattoo artists working under sanitary conditions will easily allow customers to see the artists attach new needles and ink supplies for each tattoo given.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

14: Women, especially women living in large cities, are most likely to be raped by strangers.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

15: Different prescription drugs often interact in the bodies of senior citizens to harmful effect.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

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