Deck 5: Public Healths Role in Health Care

Question 1

What are the three components of the epidemiological triangle?

A)Assessment, assurance and policy development
B)Biosurveillance, surveillance, environment
C)Environment, host and agent
D)Cost, access, quality

Answer 1

Environment, host and agent

Question 2

In 1920, Charles Winslow defined public health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, control of community infections, and education of individuals regarding hygiene to ensure a standard of living for health maintenance. p

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is an example of individual lifestyle factors as determinants of health?

A)Age,
B)Sex
C)A and B
D)None are correct

Answer 3

A and B

Question 4

Social media is electronic communications dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing, and collaboration

Question 5

Public health emergency preparedness is a term used for planning protocols that are in place to manage a large scale event such as a natural disaster such as a hurricane or massive flooding or man-made disaster such as a terrorist attack like September 11, 2001.

Question 6

Public health marketing draws from the business discipline of marketing
theory and adds science-based health strategies of promotion and prevention.

Question 7

The determinant of health that includes pollutants, hazardous exposure at work, water contamination is called the physical environment.
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Question 8

The American Medical Association has recognized that obesity should be treated as a disease and treated as such.

Question 9

Over the last decade, there has been a decrease in the collaboration between public health and private medicine.

Question 10

The public health function, assurance, enforces laws that protect environmental health and safety.

Question 11

Public health marketing involves creating, communicating and delivering health information and interventions using customer-oriented and science-based strategies to protect and promote health in diverse populations.
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Question 12

Since John Snow linked disease with environmental factors, the field of environmental health is an integral component of public health.

Question 13

The Incident Command System is used by police, fire and emergency management agencies as a coordinator for an emergency event to ensure efforts are implemented seamlessly.
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Question 14

According to the CDC, one of the ten essential public health services is:

A)Monitoring health to identify community problems
B)Diagnose and investigate health problems in the community
C)Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
D)All are correct

Question 15

An individual's lifestyle or behavior includes diet, exercise, sexual activity, stressful job, which are types of determinants of health.

Question 16

The determinants of health are external factors within the immediate environment of an individual that influences the person's health.
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Question 17

The core public health function, assessment, means :

A)Planning at federal, state and local levels.
B)Evaluation of programs
C)Data collection of health issues
D)All are correct

Question 18

An example of tertiary prevention is:

A)Blood pressure screenings
B)Immunization programs
C)Mammograms
D)Rehabilitation of stroke patients

Question 19

This senior fitness program, Silver Sneakers, offers a blend of physical activity, healthy lifestyle and socially oriented programming that allows older adults to take greater control of their health.

Question 20

The Institute of Medicine in its' 1988 Future of Public Health report defined public health as an organized community effort to address public health by applying scientific and technical knowledge to promote health.

Question 21

What is the purpose of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials?

A)They are a professional organization that supports epidemiologists nationwide.
B)They provide support for state and local health departments by advocating for increased public health funding and provide training for state public health leaders.
C)They monitor environmental health activities at the state level only
D)None are correct

Question 22

Epidemiologists identify three major risk factors for disease which are called

A)Bermuda triangle of the disease, bacteria, and environment.
B)Public health triangle of the agent, host and environment.
C)Epidemiology triangle of the host, the agent and the environment.
D)None of the above.

Question 23

What is bioterrorism?

Question 24

The three core public health functions are:

A)Assurance, policy development and detection of disease.
B)Policy development, prevention of disease and assurance.
C)Assessment, detection of disease and policy development.
D)Assessment, policy development and assurance.

Question 25

Which statements are correct about the NACCHO?

A)It is an advocacy organization for local health departments
B)It is staffed by nearly 100 physicians public health experts
C)It promotes public health
D)All are correct

Question 26

Health and Human Services and its agencies is responsible for which of the following activities:

A)Data gathering and surveillance
B)Conducting and funding research
C)Ensuring access to healthcare for the poor and elderly
D)All are correct

Question 27

Define and describe the determinants of health.

Question 28

What is the focus of health promotion activities?

A)They target many community health objectives
B)They target long term health behavior changes
C)A and B
D)They target short term health behavior changes

Question 29

The Incident Command System is:

A)A system that defines principles, roles and structures that organize how the U.S. responds to terrorism.
B)Used by police, fire and emergency management agencies to coordinate emergency events.
C)Used by the Department of Homeland Security to manage major disasters.
D)Used by the Centers for Disease Control to manage public health surveillance. Short Answer/Essay

Question 30

Epidemiologic surveillance consists of:

A)Monitoring individuals to determine their behaviors that cause disease.
B)Monitoring disease outbreaks to develop public health intervention strategies to combat disease.
C)Monitoring individuals to reduce their risky behavior of spreading disease.
D)All of the above are examples of surveillance.

Question 31

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that to use social media effectively, the following actions should be taken:

A)Use low risk tools such as podcasts and YouTube videos to test the message.
B)Review social media sites for user statistics
C)Perform market research to determine education messages
D)All are correct

Question 32

Which of these activities demonstrate the collaboration between traditional and public health medicine?

A)A formal relationship was established between the American Medical Association (AMA)and the American Public Health Association (APHA).
B)An increase in collaboration between the AMA and the CDC.
C)A and B
D)A relationship between the AMA and the American Hospital Association

Question 33

What is the logo NACCHO developed to promote public health by the local health departments?

A)Prevent, Promote, Protect
B)Educate, Promote, Analyze
C)Data, Data, Data
D)People, Public, Promotion

Question 34

What are examples of health education activities at the community level?

A)Nutritional counseling
B)Genetic counseling
C)Family counseling
D)None of these are correct. They are health promotional activities

Question 35

What is the first step of implementing a public health education campaign?

A)Performing surveillance activities
B)Develop a pilot study
C)Perform a community assessment to determine at risk populations. Xx p.136
D)Choose a campaign to implement

Question 36

Who is Edwin Chadwick? What is his importance to healthcare?

Question 37

What do the American Cancer Society, American Health Association and the American Lung Association all have in common?

A)They are all for profit organizations that promote public health
B)They are all government agencies that regulate healthcare insurance
C)The all have active health promotion activities at the national, state and local levels.
D)They work closely with the Centers for Disease Control.

Question 38

What is public health emergency preparedness?

Question 39

Primary prevention activities focus on:

A)Early detection and treatment of diseases.
B)Stopping the progression of disease.
C)The rehabilitation of individuals from disease progression.
D)Reducing disease development.

Question 40

What role do social media play in the healthcare industry?

A)It has become a communication tool for patients
B)It has become a communication tool for providers
C)It has become a tool for healthcare education
D)All are correct

Question 41

Who is John Snow?

Question 42

What are the Healthy Reports and their importance to healthcare?