CDN Public Health & Community Nutrition 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which federal program provides nutrition assistance specifically to low-income pregnant women, infants, and children up to age 5?
- SNAP
- WIC (Correct answer)
- CHIP
- Head Start
Correct answer: WIC
WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) is a federal program targeting low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, and children up to age 5.
Question 2: The Healthy People initiative sets national health objectives on a how many year cycle?
- 5 years
- 10 years (Correct answer)
- 15 years
- 20 years
Correct answer: 10 years
Healthy People sets 10-year national health objectives; current edition is Healthy People 2030.
Question 3: A community dietitian notices high rates of iron-deficiency anemia in adolescent girls in a low-income neighborhood. Which intervention is MOST appropriate as a first step?
- Distribute iron supplements to all girls
- Conduct a community needs assessment (Correct answer)
- Implement a school lunch fortification program
- Refer all affected girls to a physician
Correct answer: Conduct a community needs assessment
A community needs assessment identifies the scope, causes, and resources before designing targeted interventions.
Question 4: Social determinants of health that most directly affect nutritional status include all of the following EXCEPT:
- Food access and availability
- Income and socioeconomic status
- Individual genetic predisposition (Correct answer)
- Educational attainment
Correct answer: Individual genetic predisposition
Genetic predisposition is a biological factor, not a social determinant of health.
Question 5: Which epidemiological measure describes the proportion of a population that has a disease at a specific point in time?
- Incidence rate
- Point prevalence (Correct answer)
- Period prevalence
- Mortality rate
Correct answer: Point prevalence
Point prevalence is the proportion of individuals with a condition at one specific moment in time.
Question 6: The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is used in public health nutrition primarily to:
- Calculate dietary reference intakes for populations
- Plan and evaluate health promotion programs (Correct answer)
- Screen individuals for nutritional deficiencies
- Analyze food composition databases
Correct answer: Plan and evaluate health promotion programs
PRECEDE-PROCEED is a comprehensive planning framework used to design, implement, and evaluate community health promotion programs.
Question 7: Food deserts are characterized primarily by:
- High density of fast food restaurants in urban areas
- Limited access to affordable, nutritious food (Correct answer)
- Absence of any food retail establishments
- Areas with high rates of food allergies
Correct answer: Limited access to affordable, nutritious food
Food deserts are areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, often in low-income urban or rural communities.
CDN Public Health & Community Nutrition 2
Which federal program provides nutrition assistance specifically to low-income pregnant women, infants, and children up to age 5?