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Principles and Foundations of Health Promotion and Education, 7e (Cottrell et al.)
Chapter 2 The History of Health and Health Education/Promotion
1) The history of health education as an emerging profession is just over ________ years old.
A) 100
B) 500
C) 1,000
D) 5,000
Answer: A
2) It is assumed that the earliest humans initially learned to distinguish between things that were
healthful and those that were harmful by
A) divine intervention.
B) instinct.
C) inherited knowledge.
D) trial and error.
Answer: D
3) Excavated sites, dating back 4000 years, indicate that bathrooms and drains were common in
A) Rome.
B) Mycenae.
C) India.
D) Syria.
Answer: C
4) The ________ is the oldest written document related to health care dating from around 1600
BC.
A) Biblical transcript
B) Smith Papyri
C) Egyptian Health Manifesto
D) Code of Hammurabi
Answer: B
5) The ________ is the earliest written record concerning public health.
A) Biblical transcript
B) Smith Papyri
C) Egyptian Health Manifesto
D) Code of Hammurabi
Answer: D
6) Which book of the Bible is considered to be the world’s first written hygienic code?
A) Obadiah
B) Zephaniah
C) Leviticus
D) Lamentations
Answer: C
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7) The Egyptians were considered to be
A) far more advanced in public health matters than the Greeks.
B) the writers of the earliest health care documents.
C) the founders of modern surgery.
D) the healthiest people of their time.
Answer: D
8) The first people to put as much emphasis on prevention of disease as on the treatment of
disease conditions were the
A) Egyptians.
B) Hebrews.
C) Greeks.
D) Romans.
Answer: C
9) By the beginning of the 8th century BC, Greek mythology had endowed ________ as the god
of medicine.
A) Asclepius
B) Hygeia
C) Mercury
D) Zeus
Answer: A
10) The Greek physician credited as being the first epidemiologist and the father of modern
medicine was
A) Hippocrates.
B) Asclepius.
C) Panacea.
D) Plato.
Answer: A
11) The staff and serpent symbol, which also marked early Greek temples of healing, is known
as
A) Hippocrates.
B) Caduceus.
C) Panacea.
D) Plato.
Answer: B
12) Which period resulted in the production of realistic anatomical drawings?
A) Roman Empire
B) Middle Ages
C) Renaissance
D) Age of Enlightenment
Answer: C
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13) Which contribution to the history of medicine is not attributed to Hippocrates?
A) The distinction between ‘endemic’ diseases and ‘epidemic’ diseases
B) The belief that health was the result of balance and disease the result of imbalance
C) The Code of Hammurabi
D) The Hippocratic Oath
Answer: C
14) The early society most famous for building sewage systems, water supply systems, baths,
and other health facilities was the
A) Egyptians.
B) Greeks.
C) Romans.
D) Saxons.
Answer: C
15) During what era were criminals dissected alive to improve medical knowledge?
A) Egyptian
B) Greek
C) Roman
D) Middle Ages
Answer: C
16) Which of the following groups built the most extensive aqueduct system to bring fresh water
to its subjects?
A) Egyptians
B) Greeks
C) Romans
D) Saxons
Answer: C
17) Entire libraries were burned and knowledge about the human body was seen as sinful during
the
A) Egyptian era.
B) Renaissance.
C) Roman era.
D) Middle Ages.
Answer: D
18) Which great epidemic during the Middle Ages resulted in the most discrimination and
isolation of its victims?
A) Syphilis
B) Bubonic plague
C) Leprosy
D) Smallpox
Answer: C
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19) During the Middle Ages, which of the following was considered one potential cause of the
bubonic plague?
A) Syphilis
B) Unnatural hot and humid winds
C) Leprosy
D) Smallpox
Answer: B
20) “Water casting” was a
A) means of diagnosing a patient’s condition by examining the urine for changes in color.
B) means of casting out demons by throwing water on the inflicted individual.
C) method for diagnosing syphilis during the Roman era.
D) condition in which water was retained by the body when infected with leprosy.
Answer: A
21) During the Renaissance period, much surgery and dentistry was performed by
A) physicians and dentists.
B) nurse midwives.
C) surgeons trained only by apprenticeship.
D) barbers.
Answer: D
22) The Middle Ages can be characterized as a time
A) of health advances.
B) when many health advancements were lost.
C) focused on disease prevention efforts.
D) emphasizing naturalistic and holistic approaches.
Answer: B
23) During which period did the concept of disease contagion become more universally
accepted?
A) Roman Empire
B) Middle Ages
C) Renaissance
D) Age of Enlightenment
Answer: B
24) During the 1700s the “miasmas theory” held that
A) disease was caused when vapors rising from rotting refuse were inhaled.
B) an imbalance of the mind, body, and spirit caused disease.
C) disease was caused by four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
D) parasites in the water caused most disease.
Answer: A
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25) The smallpox vaccine was discovered during which period?
A) 1500s
B) 1600s
C) 1700s
D) 1800s
Answer: C
26) Who wrote the Report on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring
Population of Great Britain?
A) John Snow
B) James Lind
C) Edwin Chadwick
D) Thomas Muster
Answer: C
27) John Snow was able to interrupt a cholera epidemic in London by
A) placing those infected in quarantine.
B) removing a pump handle.
C) promoting daily bathing.
D) developing a new antibiotic.
Answer: B
28) Who proposed the germ theory of disease?
A) Robert Koch
B) Louis Pasteur
C) Joseph Lister
D) Edwin Chadwick
Answer: B
29) To address the many health problems facing U.S. cities in the late 1700s, some cities
developed health
A) laws.
B) rules.
C) boards.
D) regulations.
Answer: C
30) Public health reform in the United States was stimulated by the landmark Report on the
Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts written by
A) Edwin Chadwick.
B) Thomas Dewy.
C) Horace Mann.
D) Lemuel Shattuck.
Answer: D
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31) Which of the following is not a result of the landmark Report on the Sanitary Commission of
Massachusetts?
A) The first full-time county health departments were formed.
B) State boards of health were formed.
C) The National Tuberculosis Study was conducted.
D) The collection and analysis of vital statistics became practice.
Answer: C
32) Stephen Smith’s effort to initiate a national sanitary association eventually evolved into the
A) American Association for Health Education (AAHE).
B) American Public Health Association (APHA).
C) Society of Public Health Educators (SOPHE).
D) Association for Worksite Health Promotion (AWHP).
Answer: B
33) The first national voluntary health agency established in 1902 was the
A) American Cancer Society.
B) American Heart Association.
C) Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts.
D) National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Answer: D
34) Passage of the 1798 Marine Hospital Services Act established a structure that eventually
evolved into today’s
A) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
B) U.S. Public Health Service.
C) National Institutes of Health.
D) U.S. Marine Corps.
Answer: B
35) Which act provided support for state health departments and their programs, including the
development of sanitary facilities and improvements in maternal and child health?
A) Ransdell Act
B) Social Security Act
C) Hill-Burton Act
D) Congressional Health Services Act
Answer: B
36) The federal government’s involvement in social issues including health began with passage
of the
A) Medicare Act.
B) Medicaid Act.
C) Ransdell Act.
D) Social Security Act.
Answer: D
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37) Dr. Mayhew Derryberry is credited with
A) predicting how the shift from contagious to chronic diseases would impact health education.
B) establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
C) presenting Canadians with epidemiological evidence supporting the importance of lifestyle
and environmental factors to health and sickness.
D) establishing what is now known as the National Institute of Health.
Answer: A
38) ________ was created to assist in the payment of medical bills for the elderly.
A) Medicare
B) Medicaid
C) Social Security
D) Health insurance
Answer: A
39) The first national effort to promote the health of citizens through a more preventative
approach took place in what country?
A) United States
B) England
C) Germany
D) Canada
Answer: D
40) What famous Canadian report presented epidemiological evidence supporting the importance
of lifestyle and environmental factors on health and sickness, and called for numerous national
health promotion strategies?
A) A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians
B) A Report Card on Canadian Health Promotion Efforts
C) Canadian Healthy Diary
D) National Health Objectives for Canada Care
Answer: A
41) In the United States the first major recognition of the importance of lifestyle in promoting
health and well-being came in the form of a governmental publication titled
A) Healthy People.
B) Surgeon General’s Report on the Health of Americans.
C) A Report Card on U.S. Health Indicators.
D) National Health Objectives for the year 1990.
Answer: A
42) Which of the following is not an overarching goal of Healthy People 2020?
A) Living longer lives
B) Creating healthy environments
C) Eliminating disparities
D) Conducting critical research
Answer: D
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43) The most recent set of national health objectives for the United States is titled
A) Healthy People 2000.
B) Healthy People 2010.
C) Healthy People 2020.
D) Healthy People 2030.
Answer: C
44) The Standard Occupational Classification Policy Review Committee approved the creation
of a new, distinct classification for the occupation of health educator in
A) the mid-1800s.
B) the late 1800s.
C) the mid-1900s.
D) the late 1900s.
Answer: D
45) Massachusetts passed the first mandatory education law in 1647 to
A) ensure children were prepared to become public servants in their community.
B) provide basic skills for female children.
C) combat plagues and other contagious diseases that were spreading throughout the community.
D) help promote the reading of the Bible.
Answer: D
46) Who was the secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education in 1837 and repeatedly
called for mandatory programs of hygiene education for students?
A) Horace Mann
B) Lemuel Shattuck
C) Thomas Dewy
D) Charles Darwin
Answer: A
47) Founded in 1927, the American Association of School Physicians evolved into the
A) American Association for Health Education.
B) American College Health Association.
C) School Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
D) American School Health Association.
Answer: D
48) The first national effort to promote the teaching of health related curriculum in the schools
was directed by the
A) Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
B) American Cancer Society.
C) American Lung Association.
D) National March of Dimes.
Answer: A
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49) Among her many accomplishments, Miss Sally Lucas Jean was ultimately responsible for
A) writing the first health objectives for the United States.
B) changing the name from hygiene education to health education.
C) chairing a presidential commission on health education.
D) developing the first health education curriculum.
Answer: B
50) What happened during World War I that provided the impetus for widespread acceptance of
school health education as a field in its own right?
A) The incidence of tuberculosis increased rapidly
B) School health was required of all children for the first time
C) Too many young men were unfit for service
D) The first college program for health education was established
Answer: C
51) Which of the following best represents the results of the School Health Education Study
conducted by Dr. Elena Sliepcevich?
A) Health attitudes and behaviors among the students surveyed were excellent
B) Content knowledge among students surveyed was high
C) The results were appalling with numerous misconceptions about health at all levels
D) The results indicated good fitness and tobacco behaviors, but poor nutrition behaviors
Answer: C
52) One of the more important health education studies that was conducted in the Los Angeles
Area and was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of school health work in selected schools
and colleges of the area was the
A) School Health Education Evaluation Study.
B) School Health Effectiveness Project.
C) National School Health Assessment.
D) Regional Health Promotion and Education Survey.
Answer: A
53) Eight interactive components working together to enhance the health and well-being of the
students, faculty, staff, and community within a school district are known as
A) Comprehensive School Health Education.
B) a Coordinated School Health Program.
C) a Complete School Health Integration Program.
D) a Regulated School Health Plan.
Answer: B
54) The most recent school health publication focused on improving educational achievement for
all students and improved health for the United States is the
A) Standards for Health Literacy.
B) School Health Advisory Council Handbook.
C) Coordinated School Health Program Guidebook.
D) National Health Education Standards.
Answer: D
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55) When developing school health curriculum, the CDC recommends emphasizing six key risk
behaviors because the behaviors
A) are the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.
B) are the most controllable by young people.
C) typically begin in early adulthood.
D) have been proven to be most easily changed through education.
Answer: A
56) The coordinated school health concept has dominated the school health arena but has failed
to reach its full potential in most schools because
A) the recess before lunch concept has been a priority.
B) the leadership to promote and coordinate school health programs is lacking.
C) the program is too prescriptive for most administrators to implement.
D) it lacks federal support.
Answer: B
57) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
A) expands healthcare to millions of uninsured Americans.
B) will limit opportunities for health education specialists to promote health.
C) focuses on providing affordable health education for high risk teens.
D) will protect patients from physicians who fail to employ high standards of care.
Answer: A
58) The formal classification for the occupation of health education was significant because it
A) allowed health educators to be eligible to sit for a certification exam.
B) made it possible to determine the number of health education specialists employed.
C) allowed health education specialists to serve as government consultants.
D) guided undergraduate health education program admission rates.
Answer: B
59) Health literacy is defined as an individual’s ability to read health information.
Answer: FALSE
60) The need for professional health educators emerged as human beings’ knowledge of health
and health care increased.
Answer: TRUE
61) Earliest man believed that disease and infirmity were caused by the influence of magic or
malevolent spirits that inhabited streams, trees, animals, the earth, and the air.
Answer: TRUE
62) The earliest written record concerning public health was the Smith Papyri.
Answer: FALSE
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63) Egyptian medicine never advanced far beyond primitive medicine, relying on faith in magic
spells.
Answer: TRUE
64) The Egyptians possessed a strong sense of personal cleanliness and were considered to be the
healthiest people of their time.
Answer: TRUE
65) The Egyptians utilized numerous pharmaceutical preparations and constructed earth privies
for sewage as well as public drainage pipes.
Answer: TRUE
66) During the Greek era, the role of physician began to take shape and a more scientific view of
medicine emerged.
Answer: TRUE
67) In Greek mythology Hygeia was given the power to prevent disease.
Answer: TRUE
68) Hippocrates taught that health was the result of prayer.
Answer: FALSE
69) The balance of mind, body, and spirit was a focus of the Romans.
Answer: FALSE
70) The Greeks emphasized instruction related to philosophy, athletics, and theology in order for
individuals to maintain balance.
Answer: TRUE
71) The Hippocratic Oath continues to be used today as the basis for medical ethics.
Answer: TRUE
72) Asclepius has been credited as being the first epidemiologist and the father of modern
medicine.
Answer: FALSE
73) As engineers, builders, and administrators, the Greeks had no equal among early
civilizations.
Answer: FALSE
74) The Romans had a great appreciation for hygiene and developed an extensive system of
private and public baths.
Answer: TRUE
75) The Romans can be credited with making many health advancements.
Answer: TRUE
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76) The Middle Ages can be characterized as a time of health advancements.
Answer: FALSE
77) The Egyptians were the first to build hospitals.
Answer: FALSE
78) The years from 1875 to 1900 are known as the bacteriological period of public health.
Answer: TRUE
79) Entire libraries were burned and knowledge about the human body was seen as sinful during
the Middle Ages.
Answer: TRUE
80) The contagion concept associated with leprosy and bubonic plague severely weakened the
argument of those promoting the sin-disease theory.
Answer: TRUE
81) In order to join the Brotherhood of the Flagellants, group members had to pledge to
ritualistically torment themselves three times daily for 33 days and eight hours.
Answer: TRUE
82) The plague caused widespread fear and superstition regarding the cause of disease.
Answer: TRUE
83) Religious leaders and physicians often were the first victims of the plague thus increasing
fear and superstition as to the cause of disease.
Answer: TRUE
84) While disagreement existed as to the cause of the plague, many believed the disease was
contagious.
Answer: TRUE
85) There was widespread agreement that the plague was caused by sin.
Answer: FALSE
86) If professional health educators had existed during the Middle Ages, millions of lives could
have been saved.
Answer: FALSE
87) During the Renaissance period science again emerged as a legitimate field of inquiry, and
numerous scientific advancements were made.
Answer: TRUE
88) Health status improved significantly in the first half of the 19th century.
Answer: FALSE
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89) The practice of dentistry by professionally trained practitioners was a significant contribution
of the Renaissance period.
Answer: FALSE
90) Due to their high standard of living, the English royalty experienced very few health
problems.
Answer: FALSE
91) Disposal of human waste was still a major problem during the Renaissance period.
Answer: TRUE
92) Health boards were instituted to fight the plague during the 16th century.
Answer: TRUE
93) Health boards first began to provide oversight on the sewage system, cemeteries, and
professional activity of physicians during the 18th century.
Answer: FALSE
94) By removing the handle from the Broad Street water pump, John Snow demonstrated that
disease could be transmitted by water and not just through the air.
Answer: TRUE
95) The first life expectancy tables were developed in the United States in 1789 by Dr. Edward
Wigglesworth.
Answer: TRUE
96) Life expectancy tables are used to project the average number of years a person from a
specific cohort will live from a given point.
Answer: TRUE
97) In 2006, life expectancy at birth in the United States reached the highest level ever at 77.7
years.
Answer: TRUE
98) The history of the U.S. Public Health Service dates back to 1798 when Congress passed the
Marine Hospital Service Act.
Answer: TRUE
99) The Marine Hospital Service Act provided funding for the first floating hospital that rotated
among U.S. port cities.
Answer: FALSE
100) In the early part of the 20th century, nostrums and quackery were major problems facing
health educators.
Answer: TRUE
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101) The National Hospital Survey and Construction Act, also known as the Hill-Burton Act,
was crafted to improve the distribution and enhance the quality of hospitals.
Answer: TRUE
102) Medicaid was created to assist in the payment of medical bills for the elderly.
Answer: FALSE
103) The coordinated school health program model has been expanded and revised, and is
known as the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model (WSCC).
Answer: TRUE
104) The Healthy People initiative has evolved into an important strategic planning tool for
federal, state, and local public health professionals.
Answer: TRUE
105) Healthy People 2020 was developed to improve the effectiveness of public health
departments.
Answer: FALSE
106) The U.S. Department of Health approved the creation of a new, distinct classification for
the occupation of health educator.
Answer: TRUE
107) As a result of health education becoming a recognized profession, it is possible to determine
the number of health education specialists employed and the outlook for future health education
positions.
Answer: TRUE
108) Health education becoming a recognized profession means the salary of health education
specialists will increase.
Answer: FALSE
109) The teaching of health was part of the earliest education curricula in the United States.
Answer: FALSE
110) Only girls attended the earliest schools, as boys were too valuable to spare from the farms.
Answer: FALSE
111) Religious leaders initiated the push for formal education in the mid-1600s.
Answer: TRUE
112) Horace Mann, whose writings and speeches helped to promote the importance of education
in general, was believed to be the first spokesperson for teaching health in schools.
Answer: TRUE
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113) was critical in the development of public health and provided strong support for school
health as well.
Answer: TRUE
114) The demonstration projects of the 1920s and 1930s showed that habits could be changed
and health improved through health education.
Answer: TRUE
115) Results of The School Health Education Study, conducted by Dr. Elena M. Sliepcevich,
were very positive and demonstrated that health education could change health behaviors.
Answer: FALSE
116) Comprehensive school health education refers to the development and delivery of a
planned, sequential, effective school health instruction program.
Answer: TRUE
117) Comprehensive school health education is the curricular component of the coordinated
school health program.
Answer: TRUE
118) There is currently a process for school health education teachers to become nationally
certified teachers.
Answer: TRUE
119) It is anticipated that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will create expanded
opportunities for health education specialists to promote health.
Answer: TRUE
120) Discuss specific examples of how health beliefs and practices have changed from earliest
humans to present day.
121) Describe two examples of the earliest efforts at health education.
122) Discuss the contributions of Hippocrates to health education and epidemiology.
123) What contributions did the Romans make to the field of public health?
124) Compare and contrast what it might have been like to live through a plague epidemic of the
Middle Ages and the HIV/AIDS epidemic of today.
125) Why did the profession of health education finally begin to emerge in the mid-1800s and
why did it not emerge prior to that time?
126) Identify and describe three governmental documents that have been important to the field of
health promotion and education.
127) was important to the history of both school health and public health.
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128) Identify four events that were important to the development of school health education in
the United States and explain their specific contributions.
129) Explain the concept of a coordinated school health program.
130) Discuss what it means to health promotion and education professionals to have the Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) Policy Review Committee approve the creation of a new,
distinct classification for the occupation of health educator.
131) Describe the initiatives that have shaped school health education programs over the past ten
years.
132) Explain two key benefits anticipated by the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act for consumers.
133) Discuss the role of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on prevention and how
that will impact the work of health education specialists.
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