Health education - JSS1 Physical and Health Education Past Questions and Answers - page 1
What is health?
The absence of illness
A state of complete physical,mental and social well_being
Being able to run a marathon
A balanced dietÂ
Which of the following is a primary objective of health education?
Diagnosing illness
Encouraging regular exerciseÂ
Prescribing medicationsÂ
Performing surgeryÂ
The importance of health education includes:
Reducing healthcare costs
Promoting positive health behaviours
Preventing diseases
All of the above
Health education aims to:
Promote healthy behaviour
Improve overall health by increasing knowledge and influencing attitudeÂ
Encourage ignorance about health issuesÂ
Promote self destructive behaviour
A specific goal of health education is to:
Increase health care expense
Develop life expectancyÂ
Improve health literacy
Decreases access to health care
What does health education aim to empower individuals to do?
Depends completely on medical professionalsÂ
Make informed decisions about their health
Rely solely on medicationÂ
Ignore important informationÂ
Which of the following is NOT an example of a health education activity?
Conducting cooking classes to promote healthy eating
Teaching about the dangers of smoking
Prescribing medication
Organizng workshop on stress managements
The focus of health education is primarily:
In diagonsing diseasesÂ
On preventive measures
On surgeryÂ
On administrating medicationÂ
Health education contributes to:
Increased morbidity
Decreased healthcare costs
Decreased quality of life
Descreased life expectancyÂ
Effective health education programs are?
Exclusive on certain social groups
Based on myths and misconceptions
Cultural sensitive and inclusive
Expensive and unattainableÂ
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