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Practice Exam Questions - Bank 1

1. Health-promotion programs educate employees on how to maintain health. Which of the following is true concerning health-promotion programs? (NSC, OHS, 275)
a. they may be comprehensive
b. they may focus on a single risk factor
c. they may enhance both psychological and physical health
d. all of the above are true
2. Which type of health-promotion program shows greater cost efficacy? (NSC, OHS, 275)
a. a comprehensive program
b. a focused (single risk factor) program
c. a program assigned to an external contractor
d. a program conducted by employees
3. This type of health-promotion program identifies organizational risk factors, such as environmental toxins, in addition to individual risk factors: (NSC, OHS, 275)
a. a comprehensive program
b. a focused (single risk factor) program
c. a program assigned to an external contractor
d. a program conducted by employees
4. According to the Bureau of National Affairs, what percentage of worker absenteeism is avoidable through appropriate attention to the physical and emotional needs of employees? (NSC, OHS, 277)
a. 10
b. 25
c. 50
d. 75
5. This type of health-promotion program focuses on the early detection of and behavioral intervention into one of more detectable risk factors: (NSC, OHS, 275)
a. a comprehensive program
b. a focused (single risk factor) program
c. a disease prevention program
d. a program conducted by employees
6. This health-promotion program addresses problems through policy-level organizational changes, and personal treatments and referrals: (NSC, OHS, 275)
a. a comprehensive program
b. a focused (single risk factor) program
c. a disease prevention program
d. an ergonomics program
7. In an organization with a simple structure (see Are I, Section E), the success or failure of a health-promotion may depend on: (NSC, OHS, 276)
a. policy formulation
b. interest of the CEO
c. matrix decision-making
d. labor-management collaboration
8. Health-promotion and disease-prevention programs derive their empirical and clinical base from the academic discipline of: (NSC, OHS, 276)
a. behavior-based safety
b. homeopathy
c. behavioral medicine
d. industrial psychology
9. This academic discipline seeks to fuse the best medical and behavioral interventions to create a more health- and cost-effective approach to health-promotion program management: (NSC, OHS, 276)
a. behavior-based safety
b. homeopathy
c. behavioral medicine
d. industrial psychology
10. All of the following are relatively objective risk factors representing the focus of the majority of evaluations of health-promotion programs, EXCEPT: (NSC, OHS, 280)
a. smoking
b. stress
c. blood pressure
d. physical fitness

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