Deck 5: What Is Public Health

Question 1

Which of the following would fall under the policy development function of public health?

A) Health education campaigns
B) Epidemic investigations
C) Health surveys
D) Vital statistics

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following is a limitation of the World Health Organization?

A) Limited agendas and limited financing
B) Standard approach with few local modifications
C) Tied to domestic politics and global economic, political, and military agendas
D) Limited ability to enforce global recommendations, limited funding, and complex international administration

Answer 2

4

Question 3

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration works in collaboration with which other agency to ensure the safety of the United States and world supply of blood products?

A) American Heart Association
B) American Red Cross
C) Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
D) U.S. Department of Agriculture

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The three basic functions of public health, while useful in providing a delineation of responsibilities and an intellectual framework for the work of governmental public health, did not provide a clear understanding or definition of the work of public health agencies.

Question 5

The local health department, or the local government, has a great deal of autonomy in setting its own structure and function and often raising its own funding.

Question 6

The state health department usually retains important roles even in those states where the local departments have home rule authority.

Question 7

__________ includes governmental public health's oversight responsibility for ensuring that key components of an effective health system, including health care and public health, are in place even though the implementation will often be performed by others.

Question 8

In the __________, otherwise known as the local autonomy model, authority is delegated from the state to the local health department.

Question 9

Today, the __________ and other multilateral financial institutions are the largest funding source for global health efforts.

Question 10

Which core function of public health includes finding data that defines the health of the greater population and specific groups within the population, including defining the nature of new and chronic health problems?

A) Assessment
B) Policy development
C) Assurance
D) Compliance

Question 11

Which of the following necessary public health services encompasses the three core functions as defined by the Institute of Medicine?

A) Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
B) Ensure the provision of a competent public and personal healthcare workforce
C) Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services
D) Research to gain new insights and find innovative solutions to health problems

Question 12

Which of the following is the largest agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that has a budget of more than $30 billion?

A) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
B) Food and Drug Administration
C) National Institutes of Health
D) Health Resources and Services Administration

Question 13

The three core functions were not tangible enough to provide a clear understanding or definition of the work of public health.

Question 14

The District of Columbia and several U.S. territories have their own public health systems and often have the authority to make public health system decisions in the way that states do.

Question 15

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the central public health agency of the federal government.

Question 16

In the branch office model, the local health department can be viewed as an office of the state agency with little or no independent authority or funding.

Question 17

The agency most closely identified with public health at the federal level is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Question 18

The World Health Organization (WHO) was created in 1948, and its impact has become more prominent in the 2000s with the increasing importance and broader impact of global health issues.