Deck 1: Introduction to Public Health Preparedness

Question 1

The core functions of which of the following need to be supplemented by specialized training, procedures, laws, regulations, and planning so that all relevant sectors can operate effectively and in a coordinated fashion during a crisis?

A) Homeland security
B) Homeland defense
C) Emergency management
D) Public health preparedness

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following is an essential component of public health, yet it is not coordinated or delivered in Washington, DC, but in every doctor's office, hospital, and clinic across the country?

A) Clinical care
B) Disease surveillance
C) Outbreak containment
D) Emergency management

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Defense is the protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external threats or aggression.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The reoccurring theme within all discussions of national security is the balance between security and liberty.

Question 5

Provide a definition for "national security."

Question 6

How is "national security" different from "homeland security"?

Question 7

What is a public health emergency?

Question 8

How many categories of public health emergencies are there?

Question 9

Name at least three components of public health and community preparedness?

Question 10

What legislation calls for the teaching of public health preparedness?

Question 11

George Kennan wrote that which of the following is "the continued ability of this country to pursue its internal life without serious interference"?

A) National security
B) Homeland security
C) Homeland defense
D) Public health preparedness

Question 12

At the core, which of the following is about preventing attacks on the United States and minimizing damage through appropriate preparations and rapid recovery?

A) National security
B) Homeland security
C) Homeland defense
D) Public health preparedness

Question 13

In December 2006, Congress passed what piece of legislation, which reauthorized and built upon the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act?

A) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
B) The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
C) The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act
D) The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

Question 14

The mission of which of the following is to protect communities by coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters?

A) Homeland security
B) Homeland defense
C) Emergency management
D) Public health preparedness

Question 15

The notions of homeland security and national security are paramount to which of the following?

A) Disaster relief
B) Homeland defense
C) Emergency management
D) Public health preparedness

Question 16

Public health professionals recognize that most public health activities occur at the federal level.

Question 17

The notions of both homeland security and national security are paramount to public health preparedness.

Question 18

When a public health emergency occurs, it affects the entire public health and medical system.

Question 19

Homeland security is about preventing attacks on the United States and minimizing damage through appropriate preparations and rapid recovery.

Question 20

For an event to be classified as a public health crisis, it is not just enough for the event to occur, but it also must pose a high probability of large-scale morbidity, mortality, or a risk of future harm.

Question 21

Broadly, which of the following means everything from national missile defense to critical infrastructure protection?

A) Homeland security
B) Homeland defense
C) Emergency management
D) Public health preparedness

Question 22

The intentional or accidental release of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear agent would be classified as which of the following?

A) Public health crisis
B) Public health outbreak
C) Public health disaster
D) Public health emergency

Question 23

A Trust for America's Health (TFAH) report refers to which of the following as requiring the basic functions of a public health system such as epidemiology, laboratory capacity, and event-based surveillance capacity?

A) Homeland security
B) Homeland defense
C) Emergency management
D) Public health preparedness

Question 24

Which of the following is essential to public health preparedness, but it starts with detection of an unusual event by an astute clinical or a capable laboratory, wherever the event emerges?

A) Clinical care
B) Disease surveillance
C) Outbreak containment
D) Emergency management

Question 25

The Department of Defense defined which of the following as "the prevention, preemption, deterrence of, and defense against aggression targeted at U.S. territory, sovereignty, domestic population, and infrastructure, as well as the management of the consequences of such aggression and other domestic emergencies"?

A) Homeland security
B) Homeland defense
C) Emergency management
D) Public health preparedness

Question 26

The most extreme position regarding national security is that it does not matter if the threat to security comes from within or from outside of the nation.

Question 27

All U.S. citizens want to be protected from threats and support the government in doing so, regardless of whether or not their personal freedoms and liberties are retained.

Question 28

The founding fathers penned the argument that the Constitution would protect U.S. citizens against conflict at home and that geography would protect the nation from conflict abroad.

Question 29

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the nation, for the first time, began to speak collectively about "public health preparedness."

Question 30

Public health preparedness refers to planning for and responding to chronic conditions that evolve over time.