CN Community & Public Health Nutrition 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which federal program provides supplemental nutrition assistance specifically to low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children under age 5 who are at nutritional risk?
- SNAP
- WIC (Correct answer)
- CACFP
- NSLP
Correct answer: WIC
WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) targets pregnant/postpartum women, infants, and children under 5 who are income-eligible and at nutritional risk.
Question 2: A community nutritionist conducting a needs assessment finds that 30% of residents skip meals due to lack of money. This is best classified as:
- Food insecurity (Correct answer)
- Malnutrition
- Poverty threshold
- Hunger disorder
Correct answer: Food insecurity
Food insecurity is defined as limited or uncertain access to adequate food due to lack of financial resources, which includes meal skipping due to cost.
Question 3: The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are updated every how many years and are jointly published by which two departments?
- Every 10 years by USDA and HHS
- Every 5 years by USDA and HHS (Correct answer)
- Every 5 years by NIH and CDC
- Every 10 years by NIH and FDA
Correct answer: Every 5 years by USDA and HHS
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are revised every 5 years and co-published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Question 4: A food desert is most accurately defined as an area that:
- Has a high prevalence of obesity
- Lacks access to affordable, nutritious food (Correct answer)
- Has no restaurants within 5 miles
- Prohibits the sale of alcohol
Correct answer: Lacks access to affordable, nutritious food
Food deserts are geographic areas, often low-income urban or rural, where residents have limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly fresh fruits and vegetables.
Question 5: Which surveillance system collects nationally representative data on diet and health status of the U.S. population through dietary recalls and physical examinations?
- BRFSS
- NHANES (Correct answer)
- YRBSS
- PRAMS
Correct answer: NHANES
NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) combines interviews and physical exams including dietary recalls to assess health and nutritional status of U.S. adults and children.
Question 6: Healthy People 2030 is best described as:
- A federal food assistance funding formula
- A national framework with science-based objectives for improving health over a decade (Correct answer)
- A clinical guideline for treating chronic disease
- A school nutrition curriculum standard
Correct answer: A national framework with science-based objectives for improving health over a decade
Healthy People 2030 is a national initiative providing science-based, measurable 10-year objectives to guide health promotion and disease prevention efforts across the U.S.
Question 7: Which of the following is a key principle of community-based participatory research (CBPR) in public health nutrition?
- The researcher retains control over all study design decisions
- Community members are co-investigators who share decision-making (Correct answer)
- Data collection is limited to clinical settings
- Results are disseminated only within academic journals
Correct answer: Community members are co-investigators who share decision-making
CBPR is a collaborative approach that equitably involves community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all phases of research, with community members as co-investigators.
CN Community & Public Health Nutrition 1
Which federal program provides supplemental nutrition assistance specifically to low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children under age 5 who are at nutritional risk?