Deck 8: Injury Epidemiology

Question 1

Victims of moderate or severe ________________ after rehabilitation and recovery have been found to be twice as likely to die within 3.5 years as compared with the general public.

A) Automobile accidents
B) Traumatic brain injuries
C) Strokes
D) Falls

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to an estimate by the American Burn Association in 2015, most of the deaths resulting from burn injuries were due to:

A) Motor vehicle crash fires
B) Forest fires
C) Industrial fires
D) Residential Fires

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In 2014, trauma accounted for 30% of all _____________ in the country.

A) Healthcare costs
B) Emergency department visits
C) Hospital admissions
D) Years of potential life lost

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is an interactive online database that contains comprehensive data from various sources on fatal and nonfatal injuries and injury-related hospitalizations?

A) Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
B) Online Comprehensive Injury Database
C) Web-based Comprehensive Injury Reporting System
D) National Violent Death Reporting System

Question 5

Which of the following is often referred to as the "silent epidemic"?

A) Suicide
B) Traumatic brain injuries
C) Alcohol abuse
D) Use of illicit drugs

Question 6

The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) developed and implemented the ________________ to collect data related to injuries associated with the use of a consumer product.

A) National Violent Death Reporting System
B) National Consumer Products Surveillance System
C) National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
D) National Product Safety Reporting System

Question 7

The ________________ has developed a Global Plan as the framework to guide activities and initiatives to achieve the goals of the Action for Road Safety decade.

A) United Nations Road Safety Collaboration
B) WHO Road Safety Global Initiative
C) World Bank Road Safety Council
D) Action for Road Safety Collaboration

Question 8

At the beginning of the Decade of Action, which of the following was developed to provide baseline data on global road safety conditions?

A) Global Road Safety Collaboration Report
B) United Nations General Assembly Road Safety Report
C) WHO's 2013 Global Status Report on Road Safety
D) United Nations Global Status Report on Road Safety

Question 9

In 2013, _______________ ranked as the fourth most common cause of death in the United States.

A) Suicide
B) Unintentional injuries
C) Obesity
D) Cancer

Question 10

An online application known as the ______________ is used to estimate alcohol-attributable violent death rates in the United States.

A) Alcohol-Related Death Rate Calculator
B) Alcohol-Related Death Report
C) Alcohol-Related Disease System
D) Alcohol-Related Disease Impact

Question 11

In the United States alcohol-related violent death rates exceed those for automobile traffic crashes.

Question 12

More than half of the 21,000 passenger vehicle occupants who were killed in crashes in 2014 were not restrained.

Question 13

The most common cause of traumatic brain injuries are motor vehicle crashes.

Question 14

A majority of burn injuries are work-related.

Question 15

The _________________ has been compiled by the American Burn Association every year since 2005 and is an important source of longitudinal data on burn injury in the United States.

Question 16

The ______________ is an active surveillance system created by the CDC to collect data on all violence-related deaths.

Question 17

The _________________ was established to raise money from private sector donors to achieve the goals of the Action for Road Safety decade.

Question 18

Which of the following are the two main risk factors for road traffic injuries globally?

A) Texting and driving
B) Riding a motorcycle without a helmet
C) Not using seat belts
D) Poor road conditions

Question 19

The steady decline in the number of road traffic fatalities in the United States can be attributed to which two of the following factors?

A) Improved driver behavior
B) Safer vehicles
C) Better roads
D) Vigorous implementation of traffic laws

Question 20

Enter the percentage of nonfatal traumatic brain injuries caused by each of the following:
Motor vehicle crashes ___________
Falls ___________
Direct trauma to the head ___________