1. When looking at the links between culture and health, it is likely that
A. All practices of a culture are health enabling
B. Some practices of a culture are health enabling, while some other cultural practices are not good for health
C. Many cultural practices are bad
D. Most cultural practices have only a modest influence on health
2. A society is:
A. A group of people who live in a specific locality
B. A group of people who share a set of beliefs and occupy a specific locality
C. A group of people who share some common beliefs
D. None of these are correct
3. Cultural relativism refers to:
A. Assessing a culture through one's own beliefs
B. Assessing a culture through its own belief system
C. Assessing a culture to determine what is good about it
D. Assessing a culture to determine what about it is harmful
4. Health literacy is:
A. The ability to write effectively about health
B. The ability to get, process, and make use of basic information about health and health services
C. The ability to provide certain health services
D. The ability to know where to find information about health
5. Disease refers to
A. The perception of being sick
B. A biological and psychophysiological condition
C. A biological condition
D. All of these are correct
6. When most people feel that they are "getting sick", their first actions for improving their health are:
A. To visit an allopathic doctor
B. To seek the help of a pharmacy
C. To take home remedies
D. To wait it out
7. Which of the following health conditions is most associated with behavioral risk factors?
A. Lung cancer
B. Pneumonia
C. Diarrhea
D. Skin disease
8. The "diffusion of innovations model" of behavior change highlights:
A. The stages individuals go through before deciding to change their behavior
B. People's perception that they might get an illness and the likelihood, therefore, that they will change their behavior
C. The steps from understanding a problem, to studying it, commercializing the innovation and then encouraging its diffusion
D. The importance of information through social media
9. "Social marketing" refers to:
A. Using traditional pathways to encourage behavior change
B. Using the tools of commercial marketing to try to encourage behavior change
C. Using social media to encourage behavior change
D. Using face to face contacts to encourage behavior change
10. Culture is an important determinant of health because it:
A. Links closely with what people eat
B. It is an important determinant of people's perceptions of illness
C. It is an important determinant of people's health seeking behavior
D. All of these are correct