Significant Gains in the Quality of Life Would Best Be

question 31

Multiple Choice

Significant gains in the quality of life would best be achieved by reorienting the focus of health promotion toward

• A) reducing the period of morbidity.
• B) delaying mortality.
• C) early identification of risk factors.
• D) All of these.

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Definitions:

Predictive Validity

The construct validity of a measure is assessed by examining the ability of the measure to predict a future behavior.

Discriminant Validity

The extent to which a concept differs from other concepts that are similar, ensuring that the measure is not reflecting other variables.

Convergent Validity

The degree to which two measures of constructs that theoretically should be related, are in fact related.

Face Validity

refers to the extent to which a test or measure appears to assess what it is intended to measure, based on a superficial examination.