Deck 17: Injuries Are Not Accidents

Question 1

Which of the following is the leading cause of injury related death in the United States?

A) Poisoning
B) Drowning
C) Traffic fatalities
D) Firearm injuries

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What state has no seat belt law for adults?

A) Maine
B) Vermont
C) New Hampshire
D) Massachusetts

Answer 2

C

Question 3

As of July 2019, how many states and the District of Columbia required helmet use for all motorcycle operators and their passengers?

A) 19
B) 28
C) 34
D) 41

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Injury rates, like other indicators of poor health, are higher in groups of lower socioeconomic status.

Question 5

The age group with the highest poisoning mortality rates is children under 15 years old.

Question 6

Information such as that collected on guns traced to crimes by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives in inaccessible to researchers.

Question 7

From 1993 to 2004, firearms-related deaths dropped by about 10,000 nationally.

Question 8

In 2017, suicides made up the majority of gun-related deaths in the United States.

Question 9

The United States has a much higher homicide rate than most other developed countries.

Question 10

The public health approach to injury control analyzes injuries, like the approach to infectious diseases, in terms of a(n) ____________________________.

Question 11

Whatever or whoever directly causes harm, such as a broken arm, is the _____________________ of injury.

Question 12

Controlling the effects of an injury after the fact is _____________________ prevention.

Question 13

Suicide by poisoning most commonly involves _____________________.

Question 14

whats the organization to the appropriate description.
-Stepped up its efforts in the early 1990s to identify and evaluate interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of violence.

Question 15

whats the organization to the appropriate description.
-Regard any attempt to control access to firearms as an attack on the Second Amendment of the Constitution

Question 16

whats the organization to the appropriate description.
-Developed a National Violent Injury Statistics System in 1999

Question 17

whats the organization to the appropriate description.
-Instituted the "Children Can't Fly" program requiring landlords to install window guards and the number of fatal falls was reduced by half

Question 18

whats the organization with the appropriate description.
-Empowered to set standards, inspect workplaces, and impose penalties for workplace hazards

Question 19

whats the organization with the appropriate description.
-Conducts research, recommends standards, and conduct hazard evaluations

Question 20

whats the organization with the appropriate description.
-Collaborated with the CDC to sponsor the Violence Against Women survey

Question 21

whats the organization with the appropriate description.
-Administers a surveillance system that collects data from a nationally representative sample of 66 hospital emergency rooms

Question 22

Which of the following was the first category of injuries to be analyzed and subjected to systematic prevention efforts?

A) Suicides
B) Homicides
C) Drug overdoses
D) Motor vehicle injuries

Question 23

The "Three Es" of injury prevention, education, enforcement, and engineering, were first applied in which industry?

A) Manufacturing industry
B) Healthcare industry
C) Construction industry
D) Auto industry

Question 24

Which of the following are most commonly involved in unintentional deaths?

A) Opioid pain medications
B) Cocaine
C) Heroin
D) Psychoactive drugs

Question 25

In addition to the people being killed by injuries, there are almost as many survivors left with permanent disabilities, a major economic and emotional drain on families and on society in general.

Question 26

Prevention of injury, like the prevention of most diseases, is based on epidemiology.

Question 27

Secondary prevention mitigates the severity or even the occurrence of injury during an accident.

Question 28

How quickly an ambulance can travel to the scene of a car wreck impacts tertiary prevention.

Question 29

Violence is traditionally thought of as a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue.

Question 30

Engineering for prevention of injury includes substituting blunt edges for sharp ones where possible.

Question 31

High ______________ levels are found in the blood of more than one-third of adult pedestrians killed by motor vehicles.

Question 32

The availability and quality of emergency care are major factors in _____________________.

Question 33

The current leading cause of injury death in the United States is _____________________.

Question 34

After opioids, the most common causes of poisoning injury deaths are cocaine and _____________________.

Question 35

Whats the appropriate year of the occurrence?
-Congress imposed a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour

Question 36

Whats the appropriate year of the occurrence?
-Congress established the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and empowered it to set safety standards for new cars

Question 37

Whats the appropriate year of the occurrence?
-Federal law required states to pass zero tolerance laws for drivers under 21 years old

Question 38

Whats the appropriate year of the occurrence?
-A study investigated reasons for a high fatality rate among older pedestrians along Queens Boulevard in a part of New York City inhabited by large numbers of senior citizens

Question 39

Whats the appropriate year of the occurrence?
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collaborated with the National Institute of Justice to sponsor the Violence Against Women survey

Question 40

Whats the appropriate year of the occurrence?
-Congress passed a federal law creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Question 41

Whats the appropriate year of the occurrence?
-Over 15,000 Americans were reported to have died on the job

Question 42

Whats the appropriate year of the occurrence?
-Successful passage of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the federal assault weapons ban