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Please indicate your understanding of the following statement: All laboratory work must reflect each student’s individual effort and must not be that of a classmate.

Students are permitted to use course materials from previous academic years (worksheets, keys, quizzes or exams) to aid in studying.

Extra Credit: While urban areas once had higher rates of premature mortality, improvements in public health and sanitation addressed that gap in the early 20th century.  Since then, a “rural mortality penalty” has been tenaciously growing, with higher rates of preventable death across all major causes.  Cosby, et al. explored this gap in their epidemiological study, Growth and persistence of place-based mortality in the United States: the rural mortality penalty.  The results of their research point to one additional factor that, when combined with rurality, put people at significant risk. Thus, the interactions between place and _____ are at the root of the rural mortality penalty. 

Choose the best answer: What are the U.S. standard drink sizes for regular beer, table wine, and 80-proof distilled spirits?

Choose the best answer: In an effort to “make the best choice the easy choice”, Cooper Hall was intentionally designed with an open staircase as a key feature of the ground floor atrium.  Elevators are less visible, though accessible to those who need them. The aim of this design was to increase our steps and promote our health. What health promotion strategy does this exemplify?  

The instructors reserve the right to deduct points from your grade if your workstation and equipment are not cleaned before leaving lab. 

Choose the best answer: Harry is a 68-yr-old farmer who presents to your clinic for his first check-up in years. Until eligible for Medicare, he had only catastrophic health insurance and can’t remember the last time he was seen by a provider. Outside of three years in the Army, Harry has lived his entire life on a farm. He is married with four adult children, reports feeling “pretty good” most days. He shares that he has a chronically “stiff ankle” secondary to being stepped on by a cow years ago and a “little bit of wheezing with a cough” from time to time. His respiratory symptoms flared most recently while putting up hay and have not fully resolved. He acknowledges having an intermittently productive cough, but assures you it hasn’t bothered him enough to keep him from milking the cows.  Because you have learned a bit about rural health risks and disparities, you focus your assessment, aware that Harry is at greater risk for____________

Choose the best answer: Individuals can experience hypersensitive irritability, malaise, generalized pain, and sleep disturbance during acute withdrawal from alcohol. This profoundly negative emotional state is known as____:

Choose the best answer: On average, which of the following is the best predictor of good health and well-being?  

Choose the best answer: Administering the AUDIT-C is an example of: