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: For the manager of a public health program, "Am I doing the right things?" refers to
	A: Efficiency of a program
	B: Appropriateness of a program's goals
	C: Performance of activities and achievement of process objectives
	D: Achievement of impact and outcome objectives

2: Which activity is most carried out in the largest proportion of jurisdictions served by local health departments in the U.S.?
	A: Collection of data on the number of providers of clinical preventive services
	B: Evaluation to identify gaps between the availability of and the need for clinical preventive services
	C: Assessing the extent to which screening, immunization, and counseling services are provided in the community
	D: Directly providing all the clinical preventive services needed by community residents

3: Within a target population, cultural differences initially should be considered during program:
	A: Implementation
	B: Evaluation
	C: Planning
	D: Marketing

4: Which personal health services are provided by the greatest percentage of local health departments in the U.S.?
	A: Prenatal care and family planning
	B: Childhood immunizations
	C: Sexually transmitted disease and AIDS/HIV services

5: Which of these is NOT an essential element of program management in public health?
	A: Visionary leadership
	B: The efficient-effective organization of technology and resources
	C: A carefully designed problem statement
	D: The existence-acceptance-availability of effective technology

6: Which of these BEST characterize an outcome objective?
	A: Short term, describe use of program resources
	B: Short term, related to contributing factors
	C: Intermediate term, related to direct determinants and risk factors
	D: Long term, related to the health problem

7: Which of the following illustrates an appropriately written goal statement?
	A: Education in hand washing will be provided to all employees during the first week of employment
	B: Health education is important for all individuals regardless of their position in the company
	C: Insurance should eliminate pre-existing clauses and should facilitate reasonable access.
	D: The employees will know the policy and procedures of appropriate hand washing.

8: The projected future level of health problem's determinant is called a(n):
	A: Process objective
	B: Impact objective
	C: Outcome objective
	D: Activity measure

9: The best time to plan an evaluation is:
	A: When beginning the implementation phase
	B: When writing objectives for the overall program
	C: Just as the implementation phase is underway
	D: At least six (6) months before the program is completed

10: "Within 5 years, cancer deaths from endometrial cancer will decrease by 25%" is an example of what kind of objective?
	A: Behavioral objective
	B: Learning objective
	C: Program objective
	D: Outcome objective

11: A program may turn out to be less effective than planned for each of the following reasons EXCEPT
	A: Lack of a clear goal statement
	B: Lack of personnel performance to accomplish activities and achieve subsequent process objectives
	C: Invalid assumptions or incomplete strategy linking process objectives to impact objectives
	D: Invalid assumptions or incomplete strategy linking impact objectives to an expected outcome statement

12: Family planning, high blood pressure control, and immunizations are examples of:
	A: Health protection
	B: Health promotion
	C: Clinical Preventive Services
	D: Community Preventive Services

13: To help promote behavioral change in a specific homogenous population, the best strategy is to approach the:
	A: Grass roots, general population
	B: Target group
	C: Political power brokers in the community
	D: Community leaders

14: When writing objectives it is important to remember that they:
	A: Can have numerous indicators
	B: Need to be clear, concise statements
	C: Should include resource requirements
	D: Do not need to be measurable

15: Which of these questions is BEST answered by an intervention's efficacy?
	A: Does the intervention work?
	B: Does the intervention work here?
	C: Why does the intervention work?
	D: Is this intervention cost-effective?

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