the process of enabling people to increase their control over and improvements in their health.
What is health promotion?
100
A program administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve the health of the nation’s population
What is Healthy People 2020?
100
The registered professional who provides nutritional plans for patients/clients.
What is a dietician (RD)?
200
Attempts to solve practical problems ("real-life" conditions), although it uses the same method as basic research
What is applied research?
200
a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection is called a....
What is a risk factor?
200
primary risk factor for coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and cancer.
What is physical inactivity?
200
The amount that healthcare expenses are predicted to reach by year 2021.
What is 4.8 trillion dollars?
200
The organization that certifies professionals for the following: CPT, EP-C, CEP, RCEP. Also known as the "gold standard" organization in exercise science.
What is the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)?
300
uses extensive observations and interviews that provide nonnumerical data obtained in natural environments.
What is qualitative research?
300
The risk of reducing early mortality and morbidity is caused by ________ exercise, PA, and fitness levels.
What is increasing?
300
the physical appearance of an organism as distinguished from its genetic makeup and the interaction with the environment
What is phenotype?
300
This exercise science area has a potential research area to study the role of physical inactivity in physiological function
What is exercise physiology?
300
The professional who is typically first to respond to an injured athlete on the field.
Who is an athletic trainer?
400
manipulates a variable or variables to investigate the effects on some outcome, in addition to providing conclusions why an effect occurs.
What is experimental research?
400
The leading cause of death in the U.S. for last 50 yrs
What is CVD?
400
The process of providing certified documents showing that an individual is entitled to recognition or has a right to perform certain functions or actions
What is credentialing?
400
The exercise science area that has a potential future trend to enhance athletic performance by studying the identification of techniques and signals to improve the detection of injuries and the prevention of injuries.
What is athletic training/sports medicine?
400
The certification that best suits a strength and conditioning coach.
What is a CSCS?
500
requires the collection of data on individuals of different characteristics who represent different attributes being investigated, in addition to allowing all the data to be collected at once.
What is cross-sectional research?
500
Name one risk factor for CVD that can be modified.
What is obesity/overweight, smoking, physical inactivity, high BP, high cholesterol, diabetes type 2
500
The relative incidence of a particular disease
What is morbidity?
500
To "promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages" is a what in the Healthy People 2020 program?
What is an overarching goal?
500
A professional that studies the behavioral and mental aspects of exercise, sport, and athletic performance