Chapter 10: Supporting and promoting health

1. Primary prevention aims to prevent ______.

  1. the disease developing at all
  2. the disease from progressing
  3. the consequences of the disease

Answer: A

2. The World Health Organisation recommended target for immunization uptake in most programmes is ______.

  1. 50%
  2. 75%
  3. 95%

Answer: C

3. The term ‘incidence’ refers to ______.

  1. the total number of cases of a disease, condition or event in a particular population
  2. the number of new cases of a disease, condition or event in a particular population
  3. the total number of cases of a disease, condition or event across all populations

Answer: B

4. The Dahlgren and Whitehead (1991) ‘rainbow’ illustrates the following health determinants ______.

  1. age, sex and constitutional factors, individual lifestyle factors
  2. social and community networks, general socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions
  3. all of the above

Answer: C

5. Inequalities in health can be evidenced by ______.

  1. people living in the most affluent areas of the country having a higher life expectancy than those living in the most deprived areas
  2. various members of one family expressing different health needs
  3. a number of healthcare professionals demonstrating different approaches to health promotion

Answer: A