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: An ad hoc or temporary group of individuals representing different organizations is termed a
	A: Negotiation team
	B: Coalition
	C: Collaboratory council
	D: Conflict management review board

2: Essentially, coalition building is based on:
	A: Each organization's vested interests
	B: Representativeness
	C: Equity in sharing resources
	D: Collaboration

3: Important principles of public health information include each of the following EXCEPT:
	A: Recognizing different types of data and providing integrated data management
	B: Maintaining a service orientation and ensuring flexibility
	C: Achieving system compatibility and protecting confidentiality
	D: Utilizing encounter-based data whenever possible

4: In an ongoing epidemic, the health department may initiate active surveillance by directly contacting clinicians for current information. Regarding the data obtained and cases detected, which of the following will be increased by this active surveillance?
	A: Sensitivity
	B: Specificity
	C: Representativeness
	D: Predictive value positive
	E: None of the above

5: In studies of expenditures for public health functions conducted to date, for which of these statements is there evidence?
	A: Public health functions comprise less than 5 percent of all health spending with the federal government financing more than half of these expenditures.
	B: Public health functions comprise less than 5 percent of all health spending with the federal government financing less than half of these expenditures.
	C: Public health functions comprise more than 5 percent of all health spending with the federal government financing more than half of these expenditures.
	D: Public health functions comprise more than 5 percent of all health spending with the federal government financing less than half of these expenditures.

6: Key steps for coalitions and other collaborative organizations include all of the following EXCEPT:
	A: Maintaining coalition vitality
	B: Recruiting the right people
	C: Defining elements of a successful coalition strategy
	D: Public information and public relations strategy development

7: Which two occupational categories represent more than one-half of all public health trained personnel in the U.S. workforce?
	A: Public health physicians and public health dentists
	B: Public health physicians and public health nurses
	C: Public health nurses and environmental health specialists
	D: Epidemiologists and nutritionists

8: Which of these public health data sources provides direct physical, physiological, and biochemical data from a national sample?
	A: National Hospital Discharge Survey
	B: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
	C: National Health Interview Survey
	D: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

9: Which of these is NOT one of the six universal competencies for public health professionals identified by a task force of public health practitioners and academics in the early 1990s?
	A: Analytical skills
	B: Leadership skills
	C: Cultural skills
	D: Financial management and planning skills

10: Which of these BEST describes the major components of the infrastructure of public health?
	A: Assessment, policy development and assurance
	B: Human, fiscal, organizational and information resources
	C: Leadership, advocacy and coalitions
	D: Epidemiological investigations, priority setting and enforcement activities

11: When only funds supporting the ten essential public services are considered, the ratio of federal to state and local funds is approximately:
	A: One to one
	B: Two to one
	C: One to two
	D: One to three

12: The national notifiable disease surveillance system is most useful for which of the following purposes?
	A: Describing long-term trends of a disease
	B: Describing long-term trends of a disease
	C: Rapidly detecting disease in an outbreak
	D: Representative detection of disease
	E: None of the above

13: The capacity to carry out the three core functions of a governmental public health agency (assessment, policy development and assurance) BEST describes which of the following terms?
	A: Public health infrastructure
	B: Preventive medicine
	C: Comprehensive health care
	D: Comprehensive health care

14: In the expanded view model of health, the focus is on:
	A: Cure as an uncompromised goal
	B: Disease and disease processes
	C: Communities and other defined populations
	D: Acute episodic illness and treatment

15: 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

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