Chapter 6
This type of disease is not passed from person to person
What is non-communicable disease?
One of the approaches for addressing the burden of communicable diseases
Barrier protections
Immunizations
Screening and case finding
Treatment (including contact treatment)
Preventing resistance and maximizing treatment effectiveness
Environmental degradation from mining activities (e.g. water pollution, deforestation) represents this type of physical environment:
What is altered environment?
A process of setting standards for educational and training institutions and enforcing these standards using a regularly scheduled institutional self-study and an outside review
What is accreditation?
The following are criteria for an ideal screening program, except:
A. Early detection improves outcome
B. There is a feasible testing/screening strategy
C. Screening is acceptable
D. The disease affects marginalized populations
D. The disease affects marginalized populations
One of the criteria for eradication of a communicable disease (any)
No animal reservoir
Short persistence in environment
Absence of long-term carrier state
The disease produces long term immunity
Vaccination produces long term immunity
Herd immunity protects those who are susceptible
Easily identified disease
Effective post exposure vaccination
This type of assessment includes data on a community’s actual exposures to a hazard
What is public health assessment?
First contact providers who handle the majority of common problems for which patients seek care
What is primary care?
The following individuals have a high potential to contribute to an epidemic
A. Asymptomatic carriers
B. Chronic carriers
C. Those in advanced stages of an infection
D. A and B
E. B and D
D. A and B
The following are included in Modern Koch’s postulates for establishing a contributory cause of a communicable disease, except:
A. Epidemiological association
B. Magnitude
C. Transmission
D. Isolation
B. Magnitude
Examining the presence of mercury in water bodies and its impacts on human and animal health (fish and aquatic birds) represents this type of environmental assessment:
What is ecological assessment?
Dermatology is an example of this level of care
A. Primary care
B. Secondary care
C. Tertiary care
B. Secondary Care
The four major risk factors for noncommunicable diseases:
What are unhealthy diet, tobacco use, physical inactivity, and harmful use of alcohol?
These individuals have the ability to transmit the disease while free of symptoms
What is asymptomatic individuals?
Takes into account the combined effects of two or more hazards
What is multiplicative interaction analysis?
The following is a state government function:
A. Accreditation
B. Licensure
C. Credentialing/Certification
B. Licensure
A new intervention is always considered_______ when it increases the benefits (health outcomes) at a reduced cost compared to a standard intervention.
What is cost-effective?
Smallpox is difficult to eradicate because of the frequent viral mutations:
o True
o False
False
This is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that is commonly found in foundations or basements of homes or buildings
What is radon?
The public health workforce only includes individuals with a degree in public health:
True
False
False