Question: A ______ is an area, usually of low-income status, that lacks access to healthy and affordable foods.

Answer Options:
food desert
food dessert
food deserts

Answer: food desert

Question: This original Blue Zone is home to the oldest living women.

Answer Options:
Sardinia, Italy
Ikaria, Greece
Loma Linda, California
Okinawa, Japan

Answer: Okinawa, Japan

Question: All of the following would be examples of primary care EXCEPT:

Answer Options:
health campaigns, like Blood Cancer Awareness Month
adding fluoride to water supply systems
promotion of diet variety and physical activity
disinfectant use

Answer: disinfectant use

Question: Which of the following was the leading cause of death in the early 20th century?

Answer Options:
Pneumonia
Tuberculosis
Diarrhea
All of these answers are correct.

Answer: All of these answers are correct.

Question: Which of the following is not a component that makes up someone’s socioeconomic status?

Answer Options:
Their occupation
The level of education completed
How many hours they volunteer
How much money they make/have

Answer: How many hours they volunteer

Question: Long-term, excessive alcohol consumption increases someone’s risk for all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer Options:
Stroke
Liver disease
Hypertensive heart disease
HIV

Answer: HIV

Question: At a population level, health is measured from _____________ and _____________.

Answer: Life expectancy
Disease burden

Question: Patients that are Spanish/Latino/Hispanic may advocate to have family members present for appointments, especially the maternal family members.

Answer Options:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: _____ is the inability to acquire or consume an adequate diet or sufficient quantity of food.

Answer: Food insecurity

Question: Residential segregation by income has shown to have positive effects on the individual’s health in those communities.

Answer: False

Question: Which of the following is not a pillar of population health?

Answer Options:
Public Policy
Public Health
Education Systems
Health Care

Answer: Education Systems

Question: Which of the following is NOT a current major health issue in the US?

Answer Options:
rising costs of healthcare
death from communicable diseases
cigarette use
obesity

Answer: death from communicable diseases

Question: Which of the following is NOT a factor in determining quality housing conditions?

Answer Options:
HVAC systems
plumbing
occupancy
location

Answer: location

Question: Which of the following locations is an original blue zone?

Answer Options:
Kyotango, Japan
Sardinia, Italy
Loma Linda, California
San Jose, Costa Rica

Answer: Sardinia, Italy

Question: Workplace safety improved on construction sites because of which of the following?

Answer Options:
Helmets
Brushing Teeth
Lower Tobacco Use
Driving Tests

Answer: Helmets

Question: Health ______ adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.

Answer Options:
quotas
insurances
populations
disparities

Answer: disparities

Question: The presence of (and proximity to) health-related resources, as well as the ways in which neighborhoods and communities are designed is known as ______.

Answer: built environment