HLTH 507 Quiz 1,2,3

HLTH 507 Quiz 1

1. In 1842, Edwin Chadwick published the General Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of Great Britain. Two of the most significant findings included:
2. What was the impact of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act?
3. The core public health functions as defined by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are:
4. The CDC administers a range of programs designed to prevent and control specific disease, injury, and disability risks on a national level through
5. The outcome or performance of the public health system can be measured in terms of
6. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) decide which diseases should be considered reportable to the Centers for Disease Control and produced in a weekly report “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) which publishes the prevalence of disease throughout the country on a weekly basis.
7. In 1920, Charles Winslow defined public health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, control of community infections, and education of individuals regarding hygiene to ensure a standard of living for health maintenance.
8. Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard has not reduced smoking-related deaths.
9. Notable public health trends and issues do not include addressing one of the biggest public health challenges: HIV/AIDS because it is largely under control.
10. Primary prevention avoids the development of a disease. Promotion activities such as health education are primary prevention. Other examples include smoking cessation programs, immunization programs, and educational programs for pregnancy and employee safety.

HLTH 507 Quiz 2

1. The development of indicators to measure public health performance at the national, state, and local levels is an example of a:
2. The concept of stakeholder management focuses on:
3. Which statements are correct about “Pay for Performance” health care?
4. US public health has been highly influential in shaping the environmental and behavioral determinants of population health. Examples include:
5. The largest funding source for global health is:
6. Reasons to address global health include direct and indirect impacts on individuals and countries.
7. The Independence at Home program will provide Medicare beneficiaries with at home primary care and allocated any cost savings of this type of care to the health care professionals if they reduce hospital admissions and improve health outcomes.
8. With respect public health performance and governance structure as research priority, there is no clear agreement that public health performance is related to the governance structure of an institution.
9. National health insurance, as in Canada, is funded by the government through general taxes although the delivery of care is by private providers. Countries with national health care programs provide universal access to health care to all citizens.
10. Bioethics is a field of study concerned with the ethics and its implications of certain biological and medical procedures and technologies such as cloning, alternative reproductive methods such as in vitro fertilization, organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.

HLTH 507 Quiz 3

1. History reveals a variety of factors influencing the fluctuating need for public health workers of various professions. These factors are:
2. The foundation of the human resources model is:
3. Urgent/emergent care centers were established in the 1970s because:
4. The most important decisions that any manager makes are those of selecting and promoting employees. The basic principles of psychology—primacy and recency—apply to communication with prospective employees. Primacy means that:
5. Personal Competence is the foundation of emotional Intelligence, and is comprised of:
6. Standardized degrees or professional credentials define all public health workers or all public health professionals.
7. The goal of accreditation is to improve the performance and capacity of public health agencies to perform the ten essential services.
8. Employee assistance programs (EAPs) are a type of occupational health program, the program offers services such as tobacco cessation programs and mental health counseling and referrals.
9. The purpose of human resources management in public health is to select and develop an engaged workforce capable of meeting organizational and community goals.
10. Registered nurses can only be licensed in one state.