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Strengthen the Public Health Infrastructure
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This is a multiple choice question. The year Iowa’s State Board of Health was established is: A) 1880, B) 1780, C) 1980.
What is A) 1880?
100
This is a multiple choice question. The bureau that includes projects and programs which change the environment to improve nutrition, increase physical activity and reduce obesity is: A) The Bureau of Environmental Services or B) The Bureau of Nutrition and Health Promotion.
What is B) The Bureau of Nutrition and Health Promotion?
100
Areas of expertise in this division include Environmental Epidemiology, Toxicology, Health Engineering, Health Physics and General Sanitation.
What is the Division of Environmental Health?
100
This is a multiple choice question. The name of the free telephone-based counseling service that helps Iowans quit smoking is A) Copenhagen’s Toll Free Talk Line to Heaven, B) Quitline Iowa, C) The TUPAC Hot line to Success, or D) The American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest.
What is B) Quitline Iowa?
100
This bureau “likes” to pay bills and purchases equipment and office supplies for the department.
What is the Bureau of Finance?
200
This is a multiple choice question. The year the Iowa Department of Public Health moved to the Lucas Building is: A) 1972, B) 2002, C) 1952.
What is C) 1952?
200
This is a multiple choice question. The bureau that has 18 programs and numerous other services within its bureau that aim to fulfill its mission of promoting the health and well being of women, children, adolescents, and families is: A) The Bureau of Family Health or B) The Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention and Management.
What is A) The Bureau of Family Health?
200
This is a multiple choice question. The bureau that oversees the requirement that all children entering kindergarten must be tested for lead poisoning is: A) The Bureau of Environmental Health Services, B) The Bureau of Family Health or C) The Bureau of Lead Poisoning Prevention.
What is C) The Bureau of Lead Poisoning Prevention?
200
These famous actors from Iowa, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Tom Arnold and Ashton Kutcher, received one of these from the Bureau of Health Statistics?
What is a birth certificate?
200
This is a multiple choice question. The bureau that provides technical assistance and support for local boards of health, local public health agencies, and IDPH staff is A)The Bureau of Professional Licensure or B) The Bureau of Local Public Health Services.
What is B) The Bureau of Local Public Health Services?
300
In 1967, the New Local Health Act required that each county establish a board of health and one member had to be one of these.
What is a physician?
300
This bureau coordinates the I-Smile program which promotes oral health, provides preventive services, and educates the public on early and regular oral health care. Additionally, the bureau leads the Personal and Home Care Aide State Training Program to develop a training and credentialing system for direct care professionals.
What is the Bureau of Oral & Health Delivery Systems?
300
This bureau oversees programs which monitor consumer product safety, fluoridation, swimming pool and spa inspections, and tattoo artists.
What is the Bureau of Environmental Health Services?
300
This is a multiple choice question. The name of the current law that protects Iowans from harmful effects of secondhand smoke exposure in public and enclosed places is A) Dancing with Ex-Smokers, B) Iowans First Call to Action, C) Iowa Smoke Free Air Act, or D) TUPAC’s Turn your Back.
What is C) Iowa Smoke Free Air Act?
300
This program’s vision is for a healthier Iowa through the use and exchange of electronic health information to improve patient-centered health care and population health. The program is responsible for building and implementing the Iowa Health Information Network.
What is Iowa e-Health?
400
This is a multiple choice question. The year the official state licensure of Nurses began in Iowa is A) 1907, B) 1917 or C) 1927.
What is A) 1907?
400
This bureau has a budget of over $35 Million for the prevention and treatment of substance abuse; demonstrating the tremendous need for services.
What is the Bureau of Substance Abuse?
400
This mission of this bureau is to protect Iowans from excessive exposure to radiation. Bureau activities include licensing, registration and inspection of facilities using radioactive materials, radiation-producing machines or tanning units, and radiation-emitting machines.
What is the Bureau of Radiological Health?
400
Carter and Emma are popular names. Information on baby names can be found in this bureau.
What is the Bureau of Health Statistics?
400
This is a multiple choice question. The state and local collaborative initiative working to assure that every Iowan, no matter where they live, has access to the same level of public health services is A) The Bureau of Local Public Health Services, B) The Health Care Access Program or C) Public Health Modernization.
What is C) Public Health Modernization?
500
In this year Governor Vilsack signed a bill moving the Office of the State Medical Examiner to IDPH.
What is 1999.
500
This is a multiple choice question. According to the Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention & Management, the percentage of chronic conditions that can be prevented through improved lifestyle choices focusing on prevention is A) 60%, B) 80%, or C) 90%.
What is B) 80 percent?
500
This board issues trade licenses, specialty licenses and medical gas piping installation certification for those working in the plumbing, hydronic, HVAC and refrigeration disciplines.
What is the Iowa Plumbing and Mechanical Systems Board?
500
IDPH is a partner in this initiative which recently recruited more than 297,000 Iowans to participate in a 1K walk.
What is The Healthiest State Initiative?
500
The vision of this office is “Patient-centered transformation of the health care system.”
What is the Office of Health Care Transformation?