Question 1

What are the three components of the epidemiological triangle?

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

Question 2

The three core public health functions are:

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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.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What are the Healthy Reports and their importance to healthcare?

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The Healthy People 2000 report, which st...

Question 5

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

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In 1842, Edwin Chadwick published the Ge...

Question 6

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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Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which statements are correct about the NACCHO?

Accepted Answer

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 correctE) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Prevent, Promote, Protect
B)  Educate, Promote, Analyze
C)  Data, Data, Data
D)  People, Public, PromotionE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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 implementE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Age,
B)  Sex
C)  A and B
D)  None are correctE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

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 correctE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 14

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

An example of tertiary prevention is:

Accepted Answer

A)  Blood pressure screenings
B)  Immunization programs
C)  Mammograms
D)  Rehabilitation of stroke patientsE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 17

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

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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Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What is bioterrorism?

Accepted Answer

Bioterrorism is an attack on a populatio...

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

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

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

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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.

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

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