Turnock: Public Health: What It Is and How It Works, 4e: Self-Assessment Quizzes

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Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: The concept that government is responsible to ensure that standards are met in every community developed with the 1979 revision of the Model Standards and is referred to as:
	A: primary care
	B: coordinated delivery
	C: governmental presence in health
	D: eminent domain

2: Which one of these has the fundamental responsibility to determine the health status and the health needs of the people within its jurisdiction, determine to what extent these needs are being effectively met by effective measures currently available, and
	A: U.S. Public Health Service
	B: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
	C: State and local health departments
	D: Public hospitals

3: Which of these pairs were not included among the so-called "Basic 6" services of public health that characterize public health practice over the first half of the 20th century in the U.S.:
	A: Communicable disease control and health education
	B: Primary care and chronic disease prevention
	C: Sanitation and laboratory services
	D: Vital statistics and maternal and child health

4: Which of these BEST characterize the public health practice: "Advocate for public health, build constituencies and identify resources in the community"?
	A: The process of generating support among outside groups which address community health needs and issues
	B: The process in which health agencies, working together with their constituents and others, formulate goals and objectives to meet the priority health needs of the community, and identify a course of action to achieve these goals and objectives
	C: The process of acquiring, allocating and controlling resources, both human and fiscal, that will enable a public health agency to improve its leadership, work force and operational systems that respond to current and future community needs
	D: The process of taking action on plans and policies to accomplish the community's public health objectives

5: Which of the following descriptions BEST characterizes the public health practice: "Assess the health needs of the community"?
	A: The process of examining data to establish the existence of community factors contributing to identified health problems
	B: The process of listing, ordering and classifying community health problems based on the size and seriousness of the problem and the acceptability, economic feasibility and effectiveness of interventions
	C: Systematic response to obtain information regarding health effects, acute and chronic diseases, premature death, disability and environmental hazards
	D: The process of systematically describing the prevailing health status and health problems of a community

6: The Institute of Medicine identified which level of government as the central force in public health, bearing primary public sector responsibility for the health of the people?
	A: Federal
	B: state legislature
	C: County
	D: Municipal

7: The first public health nursing activity in the United States emphasized:
	A: Home care of the sick and poor
	B: School health services
	C: Communicable disease control
	D: Chronic illness management
	E: Rehabilitation for veterans of World War I

8: The definition of a local health department as a unit of local government, with at least one full-time employee and a budget, with responsibilities for health is what type of definition?
	A: Mission-driven
	B: Functional
	C: Structural
	D: Process-oriented

9: One of the first voluntary health organizations; organized in 1904; initial parent organization developed in Pennsylvania in 1892:
	A: National Tuberculosis Association
	B: UNICEF
	C: World Health Organization
	D: United States Public Health Service
	E: National Institutes of Health

10: All of the following are minimum functions of a state health department as defined by the American Public Health Association EXCEPT:
	A: Study of state health problems and planning for their solution
	B: Coordination and technical supervision of local health activities
	C: Financial aid to local health departments
	D: Enactment of sanitary regulations applicable in local health departments
	E: Establishment of maximum standards for local health work

11: Concerning the American Red Cross, it:
	A: Receives funds from the national treasury
	B: Supplies medical care to the military
	C: Supplies nursing care to the military
	D: Was chartered as a relief agency by the federal government
	E: Has no official status

12: Quality improvement efforts for the public health system focus most extensively on which aspect of the system?
	A: Processes
	B: Outputs
	C: Inputs
	D: Outcomes

13: The most common type of health care planning used in the U.S. is:
	A: Institution-based planning
	B: Program planning
	C: Population-based planning
	D: Community planning

14: Which of the following is most critical to the success of a Healthy Communities 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

15: The United States Bureau of the Census:
	A: Conducts a nationwide census every five years
	B: Receives and analyzes copies of birth and death certificates
	C: Was established in 1902 as a permanent federal agency
	D: Is directly responsible to the president

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