Deck 5: Twenty-First Century Community Public Health Practice

Question 1

All of the following are essential public health services that are components of the policy development core function except:

A) informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues.
B) mobilizing community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
C) developing policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
D) enforcing laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

All the following are key components in community engagement and community-building practice except:

A) critical consciousness and empowerment.
B) sharing of resources among partners.
C) principle or relevance or "start where the people are."
D) principle of participation.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following refers to a community's ability to define and solve its own problems?

A) Social capital
B) Community development
C) Community organization
D) Community capacity

Answer 3

D

Question 4

According to a national survey of local health departments in 2016, approximately what percentage of local health jurisdictions had completed all three pillars of public health practice, a strategic plan, a community health assessment, and a community health improvement plan in the previous 5 years?

A) Less than 25%
B) 25-50%
C) 51-75%
D) 76-100%

Question 5

The statement: "Americans will be the healthiest people in the world-living in communities that promote health, protected from health threats, and having access to quality, evidence-based, cost-effective health services" is an example of what kind of statement?

A) Mission
B) Vision
C) Values
D) Strategic priorities

Question 6

Which of the following integrates the mission and functions of public health in relation to the inputs, processes, outputs, and outcomes of the system?

A) Logic model framework
B) The population health system
C) Social-ecologic framework
D) Justice model framework

Question 7

The MAPP model supports the identification of strategic community health issues by the findings of four assessments: community health status assessment, a forces of change assessment (an environmental scan), a community themes and strengths assessment, and a local public health systems assessment.

Question 8

Recent surveys document that a higher percentage of state health departments had completed strategic plans in comparison to local health departments.

Question 9

The majority of local health departments collaborate with local hospitals in completing community health needs assessments.

Question 10

Which of the following is most critical to the success of a community health improvement initiative?

A) Adequate funding from state and local resources
B) Accurate statistics for local health indicators
C) Broad representation and involvement of community members
D) Continuous quality improvement, benchmarking and outcomes assessment

Question 11

Which of the following activities is not a prerequisite for accreditation by the Public Health Accreditation Board?

A) Community health improvement plan
B) Agency strategic plan
C) Agency quality improvement plan
D) Community health needs assessment

Question 12

The majority of community health assessments are completed without the participation of the jurisdiction's local health department.

Question 13

Which of the following are included in the so-called "Basic 6" services of public health starting in the 1920s? (Check all that apply.)

A) Development of laws and regulations for public health practice
B) Sanitation
C) Emergency response
D) Maternal and child health
E) Communicable disease control F) Medical care services

Question 14

Which of the following reports rearticulated the mission, substance, and core functions of public health and challenged the public health community to think more strategically, plan more collectively, and perform more effectively?

A) The Future of Public Health
B) The Emerson Report
C) The 1988 NAM (IOM) Report
D) The Creation of Public Health Practice

Question 15

Which of the following enabled the development of a blueprint for a national network of local health departments?

A) The Future of Public Health
B) The Emerson Report
C) The 1988 NAM (IOM) Report
D) The Creation of Public Health Practice

Question 16

Which of the following is one of MAPP's four assessments?

A) Vital statistics assessment
B) Local emergency response assessment
C) Forces of change assessment
D) Nursing competency assessment

Question 17

Which of the following announced the initial cohort of accredited public health agencies in 2013?

A) APHA
B) U.S. Public Health Service
C) PHAB
D) National Institutes of Health

Question 18

In order to develop a blueprint for a national network of local health departments, which of the following was established by the Committee on Administrative Practice that eventually issued the Emerson Report in 1945?

A) Subcommittee on Local Health Units
B) Department of National Health
C) National Institutes of Health
D) Department of Health and Human Services

Question 19

All of the following were included in the six basic health services given prominence by the Emerson Report except:

A) vital statistics.
B) environmental sanitation.
C) communicable disease control.
D) mental health awareness.

Question 20

Which of the following has the responsibility for ensuring that a health problem is monitored and that services to correct that problem are available?

A) Subcommittee on Local Health Units
B) Government at the Local Level
C) National Institutes of Health
D) Department of Health and Human Services

Question 21

All of the following are part of the three public health core functions explicated by the IOM examination except:

A) assessment.
B) policy development.
C) assurance.
D) quality.

Question 22

All of the following are encompassed under enforcing laws and regulations except:

A) animal control activities.
B) transportation services.
C) protection of drinking water.
D) monitoring quality medical services.

Question 23

All of the following are components of Essential Service 1: Monitoring Health Status to Identify Community Health Problems except:

A) vital statistics systems and population health registries.
B) identification of threats to health.
C) determination of health service needs.
D) provision of accessible health information resources at community levels.

Question 24

All of the following are components of Essential Service 4: Mobilizing Community Partnerships to Identify and Solve Health Problems except:

A) constituency development and identification of system partners and stakeholders.
B) formal and informal partnerships to promote health improvement.
C) education about laws and regulations.
D) coalition development.

Question 25

All of the following are components of Essential Service 8: Ensuring a Competent Public and Personal Healthcare Workforce except:

A) education, training, and assessment of personnel.
B) assurance of effective entry for socially disadvantaged people into a coordinated system of clinical care.
C) efficient processes for licensure and credentialing of professionals.
D) adoption of continuous quality improvement and lifelong learning programs.

Question 26

All of the following are components of a standard strategic planning process except:

A) conducting a community health assessment.
B) defining the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
C) identifying and prioritizing strategies for implementing goals.
D) seeking the endorsement of leadership.

Question 27

All of the following are components of a performance management system except:

A) undertaking quality improvement processes.
B) establishing performance standards and measures.
C) developing a strategic plan.
D) reporting on progress.

Question 28

Which of the following is an example of deliberative communication in the context of community engagement efforts?

A) Informing the community through web sites and fact sheets
B) Consulting with the community through focus groups and surveys
C) Involving the community through workshops
D) Empowering the community through delegated decision making

Question 29

All of the following are benefits of state and local health department accreditation except:

A) promotes high performance and continuous quality improvement.
B) creates eligibility for supplemental federal and state funding.
C) recognizes high performers that meet nationally accepted standards of quality and improvement.
D) increases the visibility and public awareness of governmental public health.

Question 30

On a recent survey of local health departments, which of the following was the least cited reason for not seeking public health accreditation?

A) The time and effort involved exceeds benefits
B) Accreditation fees too high
C) The accreditation standards exceed the health department's capacity.
D) The health department's governing body said no to applying.