AHPC Licensure Examination — Health Promotion

Sample Health Promotion practice questions

Try these 12 questions from different topics. Open "Show answer" to check yourself and read the explanation.

1. Question 1 · Health-Promotion Principles

   Which is one of the five action areas in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion?

   1. A.Build healthy public policy
   2. B.Restrict health decisions to hospitals
   3. C.Replace community action with advertising
   4. D.Avoid developing personal skills
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   Answer: A. Build healthy public policy

   The Ottawa Charter identifies healthy public policy, supportive environments, community action, personal skills and reoriented health services.

2. Question 2 · Community Engagement & Behaviour Change

   What should happen before selecting a health-promotion intervention for a community?

   1. A.Copy another district plan without consultation
   2. B.Assess needs and assets with community members and agree priorities
   3. C.Select a message before identifying the audience
   4. D.Wait until the programme ends to define the problem
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   Answer: B. Assess needs and assets with community members and agree priorities

   Participatory assessment improves relevance, ownership and feasibility.

3. Question 3 · Programme Monitoring & Evaluation

   Which is an outcome indicator rather than a process indicator for a hypertension programme?

   1. A.The number of education sessions delivered
   2. B.The number of posters printed
   3. C.The proportion of enrolled participants whose blood pressure is controlled
   4. D.The number of staff attending training
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   Answer: C. The proportion of enrolled participants whose blood pressure is controlled

   Outcome indicators describe changes in health or behaviour, while process indicators describe delivered activities.

4. Question 4 · Individual & Interpersonal Models

   In the Health Belief Model, a person's belief that they could get a disease is called:

   1. A.Perceived benefit of taking the recommended action against the disease
   2. B.Self-efficacy
   3. C.Perceived susceptibility
   4. D.Cue to action
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   Answer: C. Perceived susceptibility

   The model also includes perceived severity, benefits, barriers, cues to action and self-efficacy.

5. Question 5 · Community & Ecological Models

   The socio-ecological model views health behaviour as influenced by:

   1. A.Only a person's knowledge about the disease they are trying to prevent
   2. B.Individual, interpersonal, organisational, community and policy levels
   3. C.Genetics alone
   4. D.The health worker's personality
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   Answer: B. Individual, interpersonal, organisational, community and policy levels

   Effective programmes act at several levels at once.

6. Question 6 · Social & Behaviour Change Communication

   Pre-testing health education materials with the target audience mainly checks that they are:

   1. A.Printed in the brightest colours available at the lowest cost
   2. B.Understood, acceptable and persuasive to that audience
   3. C.Approved by the printing company
   4. D.Written in the most technical language possible
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   Answer: B. Understood, acceptable and persuasive to that audience

   Pre-testing reveals misunderstandings before materials are produced in large numbers.

7. Question 7 · Settings & Priority Health Areas

   A health-promoting school approach involves:

   1. A.Only teaching health as a separate subject once a term by a visiting nurse
   2. B.Excluding parents from all health activities in the school
   3. C.Selling sugary snacks at break time to raise school funds for sports equipment
   4. D.The curriculum, school environment, health services and community working together
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   Answer: D. The curriculum, school environment, health services and community working together

   The settings approach treats the whole school as a place that promotes health.

8. Question 8 · Nutrition & Physical Activity Promotion

   WHO recommends that adults do at least:

   1. A.30 minutes of vigorous activity once a month to maintain good health
   2. B.10 minutes of walking per week
   3. C.5 hours of exercise each day
   4. D.150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week
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   Answer: D. 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week

   Children and adolescents need an average of 60 minutes per day.

9. Question 9 · Disease Prevention Campaigns

   World Malaria Day is observed on:

   1. A.1 December, at the same time as World AIDS Day
   2. B.25 April
   3. C.24 March
   4. D.7 April
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   Answer: B. 25 April

   World TB Day is 24 March; World Health Day 7 April; World AIDS Day 1 December.

10. Question 10 · Advocacy, Policy & Partnerships

    Health advocacy mainly involves:

    1. A.Influencing decision-makers to change policies, laws or resources for health
    2. B.Treating individual patients in the clinic with the best available medicines
    3. C.Collecting fees from community members
    4. D.Writing prescriptions
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    Answer: A. Influencing decision-makers to change policies, laws or resources for health

    Advocacy targets those with power to change conditions affecting health.

11. Question 11 · School, Adolescent & Workplace Health

    Ghana's School Health Education Programme (SHEP) is a collaboration mainly between:

    1. A.The Ghana Police Service and the National Commission for Civic Education
    2. B.The Electoral Commission and district assemblies
    3. C.The Ghana Education Service and the Ghana Health Service
    4. D.The Ghana Revenue Authority and the Ministry of Finance
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    Answer: C. The Ghana Education Service and the Ghana Health Service

    SHEP links schools and health services for screening, health education, immunisation and a healthy school environment.

12. Question 12 · Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Promotion

    Under WHO guidelines, drinking water should contain how many E. coli (or thermotolerant coliforms) per 100 mL?

    1. A.Fewer than 10
    2. B.Fewer than 100
    3. C.Fewer than 1,000 in rural supplies
    4. D.None detectable
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    Answer: D. None detectable

    E. coli indicates recent faecal contamination, so none may be detected in any 100 mL sample of drinking water.