Deck 3: Sanitation, Clean Water, and Food Safety

Question 1

What is the second leading cause of death in children younger than 5 years worldwide?

A) Black plague
B) Diarrheal diseases
C) Whopping cough
D) Small sox

Answer 1

B

Question 2

It has been stated that control of lethal diseases was due to all of the following EXCEPT

A) urban improvements
B) public health
C) curative medicine
D) superior nutrition

Answer 2

C

Question 3

According to the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, how percentage of the world population lacks basic sanitation facilities?

A) 50%
B) 10%
C) 30%
D) 20%

Answer 3

C

Question 4

. The relationship between safe drinking water and child survival is

A) inverse.
B) direct.
C) country related.
D) variable.

Question 5

What was the cause of the cholera outbreak in London in the 19th century?

A) Food contamination
B) Influx of immigration
C) Starvation
D) Poor sanitation

Question 6

What scientist was instrumental in helping the general public in the 19th century make the connection between germs and disease?

A) Louis Pasture
B Christian Doppler
C) Charles Darwin
D) George Eastman

Question 7

The Kampung Improvement Program focused on

A) immunization programs.
B) sanitation and clean water.
C) AIDS eradication.
D) antibiotic availability.

Question 8

How many people in the world defecate out in the open because they lack toilet facilities?

A) 200 million
B) 500 million
C) 750 million
D) 1 billion

Question 9

What percent of the world's water is freshwater?

A) 10%
B) 5%
C) 2.5%
D) 1%

Question 10

The WHO estimates what percentage of the world's population lacked access to clean water in 2015?

A) 11%
B) 29%
C) 36%
D) 49%

Question 11

What parasitic disease will be the first to be eliminated by improvement in sanitation without the assistance of vaccines or other medications?

A) polio
B) whooping cough
C) measles
D) guinea worm

Question 12

What data is NOT needed for disease surveillance?

A) laboratory data
B) demographic data
C) qualitative data
D) pharmacy data

Question 13

What is still the third largest contributor to the spread of infectious disease in developing countries?

A) lack of handwashing
B) poor sanitation
C) lack of freshwater
D) lack of medication

Question 14

In the 19th century, London was plagued by outbreaks of

A) Black Death.
B) cholera.
C) smallpox.
D) plague.

Question 15

The percentage of diarrheal diseases that clean water and improved sanitation can prevent is?

A) 15%
B) 9%
C) 5%
D) 20%

Question 16

In the 1880s the germ theory of disease linking sanitation to microbial disease was made by Louis Pasteur and ____________________.

A) Alexander Fleming
B) Selman Waksman
C) Edward Jenner
D) Robert Koch

Question 17

The amount of human waste that goes uncollected and treated is?

A) 50 tons
B) 100 tons
C) 150 tons
D) 200 tons

Question 18

The second cause of child mortality after pneumonia is?

A) diarrheal diseases
B) HIV
C) malaria
D) tuberculosis

Question 19

In Bangladesh what chemical commonly found in fertilizers contaminated drinking water?

A) silver
B) mercury
C) lead
D) arsenic

Question 20

How would you describe the evolution of health departments over the last century?

A) moving from long term needs to more immediate
B) moving from providing health services to meeting sanitation needs
C) starting with basic sanitation needs to providing health services
D) starting with food preservation and then adding sanitation needs

Question 21

What are two leading causes of child mortality that could be reduced with handwashing?

A) Polio, Measles
B) Measles, Mumps
C) Pneumonia, Diarrhea
D) Measles, Pneumonia

Question 22

What health issue did author Upton Sinclair portray 1906?

A) Poor sanitation in hospitals
B) Lack of bathroom facilities
C) Meatpacking processing
D) Lead in water pipes

Question 23

What disease is NOT associated with contaminated drinking water?

A) tuberculosis
B) diphtheria
C) syphilis
D) typhoid fever

Question 24

Name the best way a food producer could prevent food contamination on the farm?

A) Liberally use pesticides
B) Use generous amounts of antibiotics in feed
C) Raise pathogen resistant animals and plants
D) Irrigate the crops you raise

Question 25

What causes "mad cow disease"?

A) bacteria
B) fungus
C) virus
D) prion

Question 26

What is most important thing to reduce the risk of food contamination while harvesting?

A) Increase the speed to reduce chance of contamination
B) Increase sanitation of equipment
C) Reduce the amount of runoff from irrigation
D) Reduce the amount of chemical sanitation

Question 27

What is one common type of toxin that contaminates food storage facilities?

A) Mycotoxin
B) Arsenic
C) Botulism
D) Necrotoxin

Question 28

How did hurricane evacuees and rescue workers contract necrotizing fasciitis and leptospirosis?

A) Open cuts exposed to floodwater
B) Drinking contaminated water
C) Exposure to contaminated waste
D) Being scratched or cut by debris

Question 29

What did the Center for Disease Control find was the leading source of foodborne illness in the United States from 2009 to 2016?

A) Beef
B) Fish
C) Chicken
D) Dairy

Question 30

What disease is caused by a fungi pathogen associated with inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene?
A Ringworm
B) Lice
C) Scabies
D) Rabies

Question 31

What is the largest reason for the discrepancy in life expectancy in the world?

A) Genetics
B) Sanitation
C) Diet
D) Medicine

Question 32

If one was going to use an epidemiologic surveillance for a certain disease what would be one of the techniques that one would use?

A) Interviews with sick people
B) Inspections of food production facilities
C) Isolate the germ causing the disease
D) Use DNA fingerprint linking germs

Question 33

Name three diseases associated with contaminated water?

Question 34

Name the three types of data the Center for Disease Control uses to track illnesses to contaminated foods in order to solve outbreaks.

Question 35

What are cost effective storage methods to reduce food contamination?

Question 36

What things can you do to prevent food contamination while harvesting and processing food?

Question 37

How is "mad cow disease" different from many of the other foodborne diseases we have studied?

Question 38

Name three ways a food producer could prevent food contamination on the farm?

Question 39

Name at least three diseases associated with contaminated drinking water.

Question 40

The novel by Upton Sinclair in 1906 tried to portray which sanitary health issue?

Question 41

The recycled human waste is known as ____________________.

Question 42

How far away from a water source should you use if restroom facilities are not available?

Question 43

Every day ________ children under the age of 5 die of diarrheal diseases.

Question 44

What organization in Karachi Pakistan helped bring clean water to 16 million people?

Question 45

How deep should the hole be that you bury fecal material?

Question 46

Name two public health initiatives in the United States that focus on control of microbes.

Question 47

List and distinguish the three types of infectious disease surveillance strategies.

Question 48

Sanitation is an important public health achievement of the past century. Write a short essay on this topic.

Question 49

Summarize the changing role of health departments over the twentieth century.

Question 50

What steps should you take when using a public restroom to be a sanitary as possible?

Question 51

Discuss the message of CDC hand hygiene campaign "Clean hands save lives!"