HEALTH: FINAL EXAM REVIEW
This test will cover everything we’ve studied this semester.
Study your notes, handouts, tests, graded assignments and powerpoints.
You may use (2) 3”x5” index cards during the exam. You can put anything you want on them (front & back).
This is a scantron test. Please bring a #2 pencil to the exam.
TOPICS:
 6 classes of nutrients (why each one is important, recommended servings per day, etc)
 Nutritious diet (health benefits of a good diet, diseases & effects of a poor diet, etc)
 Alcoholism (effects on body, family, treatment and support groups)
 Arthritis (types, cause, treatment)
 Behavior problems (compulsions, delusions, obsessions, phobias, etc)
 Blood sugar diseases (diabetes, hypoglycemia, detection, treatment)
 Body changes during puberty
 Breathing & respiration (anatomy, how we breathe, etc)
 Cancer (types of cancer & tumors, risk factors, prevention, detecting, treating)
 Cardiovascular disease (types, risk factors, prevention, detecting, treating)
 CDC death rates (leading causes of death for U.S., and for different age groups)
 Cervical cancer (causes, treatments, etc)
 Defense mechanisms
 Eating disorders (types, risk factors, treatment)
 Exercise (benefits of, target heart rate, types of, endorphins, etc)
 Fertilization
 HDL, LDL, cholesterol (what they are and what problems they cause)
 Health insurance (HMO, PPO, Medicaid, Medicare, deductible, premium, etc)
 Hepatitis (what it is and how it’s treated)
 HIV & AIDS (body fluids, methods of transmission, age groups of most new infections, etc)
 Hormones (endorphins, adrenaline, dopamine, serotonin)
 Illegal drugs (classifications, types, short & long-term effects on the body & mind)
 Immune and Autoimmune diseases
 Infectious diseases
 Insomnia (what it is, what causes it, how to treat it)
 Kidneys (why they’re needed / what they do, diseases of, etc)
 Liver (why it’s needed / what it does, diseases of, etc)
 Male and female reproductive disorders
 Male and female reproductive hormones
 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
 Meningitis (types, causes, symptoms, effects on the body, treatment)
 Mental illness (study of, types: depression, schizophrenia, paranoia, dementia, anxiety, etc)
 Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases (causes, effects on the body & mind, treatment)
 Personality (types, how they’re shaped: environment, conditioning, socialization, etc)
 Physician specialties: psychiatry, cardiology, neurology, dermatology, oncology, ob/gyn
 Reproductive anatomy
 Sleep (health benefits, how much do you need, problems caused by sleep deprivation, etc)
 Parenting And Paternity Awareness (P.A.P.A.)
 STI’s (types, causes, symptoms & treatment of each, etc)
 Tobacco (effects on body, nicotine & what it does, carbon monoxide & other chemicals, quitting)
 Personal Values (types, how they’re formed and changed, etc)
 Violence (emotional and situational causes, dating violence, anger management techniques, etc)