Deck 14: Case Studies in Public Health Response Operations

Question 1

According to 2010 census estimates, 12% of the 1.5 million residents of Philadelphia travelling to and migrating from Zika-affected countries are of what ethnicity?

A) Native American
B) African American
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) Asian/Pacific Islander

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The CASPER method recommends how many attempts be made at each household, resulting in long wait time in between attempts?

A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The CASPER results following the Zika outbreak in Philadelphia indicated that households with which of the following were more likely to consider Zika an important health issue?

A) Elderly man
B) Elderly female
C) Sexually active male
D) Woman of childbearing age

Answer 3

D

Question 4

During the Guinean Ebola response, what agency was the lead for social mobilization and awareness raising?

A) The Red Cross
B) World Food Program
C) World Health Organization
D) U.N. Children's Fund

Question 5

During the Guinean Ebola response, what agency provided funding to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to renovate structures in 28 prefectural and communal health departments to serve as local-level emergency operation centers (EOCs)?

A) Ministry of Health
B) World Health Organization
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

Question 6

Along with Ghana and Botswana, Guinea was one of the three countries most heavily impacted by the Ebola virus.

Question 7

The end of active transmission of Ebola in Guinea also emphasized a social recovery that is needed in the aftermath of an outbreak.

Question 8

Results from the vaccine trial in Guinea have been disappointing, with data from over 5,000 vaccinated individuals being infected with the virus after exposure.

Question 9

With respect specifically to emergency management, the WHO is continuing to support emergency management training and capacity building in Guinea, in collaboration with IOM, PHAC, and other partners.

Question 10

The creation of effective messages can be particularly challenging during an emerging epidemic due to rapidly changing situations and a paucity of information.

Question 11

Infection with Zika typically causes mild or no symptoms, but can potentially cause what medical condition and neurologic complications in adults?

A) Microcephaly
B) Hydrocephalus
C) Guillain-Barré syndrome
D) Acute coronary syndrome

Question 12

The index case in the Ebola outbreak in Guinea is thought to be a young boy from a rural village in the remote southeastern forest region of Guinea who was exposed to the virus via contact with which of the following?

A) Tick
B) Mouse
C) Bat
D) Mosquito

Question 13

The Ebola Coordination Cell (Cellule de Coordination de la riposte contre la maladie à virus Ebola (CNLEB) was formed of a coordinator and a deputy, both from what agency?

A) Ministry of Health
B) World Health Organization
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) U.S. Agency for International Development

Question 14

When was Guinea declared free from Ebola virus for the first time?

A) March 2015
B) June 2015
C) September 2015
D) December 2015

Question 15

What program, associated with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is surveying wild and domestic animal populations to identify possible reservoir species for the Ebola virus?

A) SMART
B) PREDICT
C) SA-CEINT
D) CASPER

Question 16

Emergency management was not a widely recognized concept in the public health sphere in Guinea prior to the Ebola outbreak.

Question 17

The emergence of the Ebola virus in the Americas is 2015 compelled public health authorities to rapidly develop and convey competent, comprehensive, and transparent messages to promote evidence-based knowledge without fostering fear.

Question 18

Further complicating the potential for acquiring sexually transmitted Zika infection is that most infected persons remain asymptomatic.

Question 19

Although CASPERs are more often performed in the context of an acute public health emergency, the method and approach lends itself well to performing community assessments in a rapid and representative manner.

Question 20

The target population for sexually transmitted Zika had the same demographic and risk-factor profile as the target population for the city's existing sexually transmitted disease prevention campaign.

Question 21

For the index case of the Ebola outbreak, what agent was suspected to be the cause of illness before Ebola was identified as the causative agent?

A) Cholera
B) Malaria
C) Influenza
D) Smallpox

Question 22

During the Ebola outbreak, what agency was in charge of conducting surveillance and epidemiological functions, including contact tracing and collating data for daily situation reports?

A) Ministry of Health
B) World Health Organization
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) U.S. Agency for International Development

Question 23

What U.S. agency renovated several floors of an existing Ministry of Health building into an emergency operations center to house the CNLEB and affiliated response entities.

A) Red Cross
B) Federal Emergency Management Agency
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) U.S. Agency for International Development

Question 24

In June 2015, the French government launched what project, which included an effort to train multidisciplinary rapid response teams in each of Guinea's eight administrative regions?

A) PREPARE
B) PREDICT
C) SA-CEINT
D) CASPER

Question 25

In February 2015, the public health department of what U.S. city activated its Incident Command Structure to address the growing epidemic of Zika in the United States?

A) Boston
B) Chicago
C) Atlanta
D) Philadelphia

Question 26

In 2016, Guinea was declared free from the Ebola virus, having been the origin of one of the worst Ebola outbreaks in history.

Question 27

Prior to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Ministry of Health did not possess an emergency operations center.

Question 28

Outside of the health sphere, emergency management approaches in Guinea are largely focused on natural disasters and disaster risk reduction.

Question 29

France launched the PREPARE project in 2016 to monitor Ebola survivors and offer frequent testing of key bodily fluids such as semen, blood, and breast milk in an effort to prevent new cases.

Question 30

The Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) is the "gold standard" method to rapidly collect health information in a representative manner; the information obtained is useful for refining health education activities.