Deck 8: Injury and Illness Prevention

Question 1

The measurement of any success, including success in injury prevention, is typically ____.

A) data-driven
B) task-driven
C) awareness-driven
D) performance-driven

Answer 1

data-driven

Question 2

Many behaviors are culturally related.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Measuring means, or ____ evaluation, includes statistics on attendance, among other items, and explains how the program was implemented.

A) task
B) process
C) data
D) system

Answer 3

process

Question 4

The ____ Award is given to agencies or individuals for community work with injury prevention.

A) Florence Nightingale
B) John Baker
C) Maxwell Haddon
D) Nicolas Rosecrans

Question 5

Primary care differs from public health because primary care treats communities whereas public health treats individuals.

Question 6

Because of its community focus, public health concentrates on the detection of community-wide disease and the creation of programs for ____.

A) disease prevention
B) wellness
C) injury reduction
D) injury prevention

Question 7

The ____ in the Haddon matrix contains the elements host, agent, and environment, taken from the Public Health Model.

A) vertical X-axis
B) vertical Y-axis
C) horizontal Y-axis
D) horizontal X-axis

Question 8

The tenants of public health medicine are inconsistent with the concepts of primary care.

Question 9

The blood alcohol level of ____ is considered the limit in most states for driving while intoxicated.

A) 0.08
B) 0.04
C) 0.8
D) 0.4

Question 10

Each square in the ____ matrix represents an opportunity to intervene and either prevent or mitigate the effects of traumatic injury.

A) Barnett
B) Haddon
C) Baker
D) Halon

Question 11

Decisions on how to develop public health promotion programs arose from observations, or surveillance of injuries.

Question 12

Changes that are broadly applied to all individuals are said to have ____ equity.

A) vertical
B) horizontal
C) longitudinal
D) linear

Question 13

Action without reflection cannot be said to be effective, for there is no measurement of the change.

Question 14

To lead successful injury prevention programs, EMS leaders must first get Paramedics to invest, intellectually and monetarily, in these programs.

Question 15

A process of evaluation is a useful but optional part of an injury prevention program.

Question 16

Because the Paramedic's goal is to help others, it becomes the Paramedic's mission to help prevent injury as well.

Question 17

____ uses a combination of home safety assessments, pool safety inspections, child passenger seat safety education, and several other initiatives to make their community a safer environment for children.

A) Eliminate Preventable Injuries of Families
B) Eliminate Preventable Injuries of Children
C) Reduction of Preventable Injuries of Children
D) Prevention of Injuries to Children

Question 18

Intrinsic within the cost-benefit analysis for a safer device is the question of acceptance by the user.

Question 19

____ is a negative connotation attached to participation in a program, such as labeling and public embarrassment.

A) Shame
B) Disgrace
C) Stigma
D) Honor

Question 20

The final portion of the PDCA cycle of quality improvement is a cost-benefit analysis.

Question 21

____________________ is a concept of fairness or evenhandedness.

Question 22

____________________ strategies are ways to go about implementing Haddon's countermeasures.

Question 23

A(n) ____________________ moment might be defined as the time when the patient has a heightened awareness of a problem and is receptive to information.

Question 24

____________________ medicine states that it is easier to prevent disease or injury in an individual rather than treat it.

Question 25

The measurement of ends, or ____________________ evaluation, is a matter of comparing the level of injury or illness before and after the program.