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Which of the following is not a step in the five step process of protecting public health?

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Focus efforts at the individual level

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Which statement is not a logical extension of the socioecological model?

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Changing the individual can easily be achieved through education program and counseling

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Which one of the following examples least illustrates a primary prevention approach to public health?

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Screening services relevant to the prevention of heart disease are widely promoted through brochures in doctors offices (SECONDARY)

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Which example is least illustrative of secondary prevention?

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Use of cholesterol lowering drug

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According to the U.S constitution the primary responsibility of health in the population is on what level?

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State

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The centers for disease control and prevention is an agency that

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Is the main epidemiologic and assessment agency for the U.S

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What are the 3 core functions of public health?

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Assessment, policy development, and assurance

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Who is the nations leading spokesperson on public health?

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Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin

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Which of the following statements about the federal government is true?

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Uses the interstate commerce provision of the constitution to protect the health of the population

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A vaccine, a condom, and a healthy diet could be considered what kind of prevention in public health?

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Primary

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The CDC changed its focus from one primarily on infectious diseases for which reason?

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Infectious diseases were largely eradicated

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How is public health practice different from medical practice?

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It focuses on the health of the population

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Which of the following statements best expresses the social justice view of public health?

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Members of a community have collective responsibility for their common welfare

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Who is considered the father of epidemiology?

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Dr. John Snow

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What three major risk factors were identified in the Framingham study?

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Hypertension, high cholesterol, and smoking

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The rate of disease is:

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The number of cases related to the size of the population under study

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What is incidence?

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New cases of a disease in a defined population

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The total number of cases existing in a defined population at a specific time?

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Prevalence

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The level of a disease or the usual prevalence of a disease within a given geographic area is the:

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Endemic level

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What is considered the gold standard of all types of studies?

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Randomized, double blind, and placebo control study

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An odds ratio estimates the relative risk of developing a disease.

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True

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What concept do we use to express the degree of probability or improbability of a certain result in an experiment?

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P-value

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Randomize control trails, cohort, and case control studies are considered "significant" if:

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P <= .05

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Having a large number of subjects or the probability of finding an effect if there is one, is and effect known as..

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Power

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When most but not all of the individuals in a group are immunized, the rest of the individuals in the group reap the benefit described below

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Herd immunity

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Infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, susceptible host are all part of what?

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Chain of infection

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HIV/AIDS is transmitted by all of the following except?

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AEROSAL Mother to infant Sexual contact Needles

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Which disease is the leading cause of death among infectious diseases

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Tuberculosis

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For which type of cholesterol is a low figure preferable?

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Low density lipoprotein

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The "leading" cause of death in the U.S in 2006 was..

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Diseases of the heart

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"actual" causes of death are significant to public health because they are..

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Preventable Targets for intervention Mostly caused by individual behavior ALL OF THE ABOVE

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Which of the following is not an example of a public health response to emerging infections?

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Curtail use of new vaccines

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The two obvious approaches that the government has traditionally taken to promote healthy heavier are..

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Education and regulation

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Prohibition of alcohol in the early 1900s was effective in decreasing the incidence of cirrhosis of the liver..

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True

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Which of the following is not considered a chronic disease?

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Tuberculosis (infectious)

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The most important single predictor of health is

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Socioeconomic status

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The Whitehall study of civil servants in the united kingdom found that..

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The higher the employment grade the better the health

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The principal finding of the Alameda, California study was that:

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Men and women with few social contacts had mortality rates significantly higher than those with a social contract

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The health belief model assumes that people often act impulsively

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False

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Which of the following is not one of the stages in the transtheoretical stages of change model?

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Termination

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A term used when someone feels that he or she cannot control something or a numbed acceptance of a negative situation

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Learned helplessness

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Smoking tobacco is the leading actual cause of death in the united states..

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True

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A major influence on how much Americans smoked was the report by ___ smoking and health published in 19..

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Surgeon general

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Adding high taxes on cigs has proven ineffectual in the campaign to reduce smoking

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False

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Which one of the following statements about obesity is false?

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Extra weight carried in the midsection is less harmful to health than extra weight in the hips

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Weight status as a child is not associated with weight status in adulthood?

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False

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Lower SES is associated with higher rates of overweigh and obesity.

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True

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Which is not a risk factor for intimate partner violence?

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Having a stable income level

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Eighty percent of child abuse happens to children in which of the following age categories?

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Those under 4 years of age

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Risk factors for domestic include all but the following

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Young age HIGH SES Low self-esteem Heavy alcohol or drug use or both

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The environment movement began in the 1960w with Rachel Carson and her book silent spring.

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True

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Lead poisoning is believed to be the single most important environment threat

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True

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The king of poisons is mercury

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False

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the population of Libby, Montana harmed for decades due to exposure to asbestos

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True

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Which of the following is not when medical care is a public health responsibility

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EMERGENCY SERVICES Prevention of communicable diseases Care of prisoners Routine medical examinations

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Accidents are preventable and injuries are random and unavoidable

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False

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What agency has the responsibility for the safety of meat and poultry, including prepared products that contain more than 2% of cooked meat or poultry, as well as for processed eggs?

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USDA

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The 1973 court case that established that women have a constitutional right to an abortion is

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Roe v. Wade

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The insurance program that is generally for adults aged 65 and over is

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Medicare

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The government insurance program that is generally poor people, particularly for children and with cost shared by the states

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Medicaid

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All of the below are reasons that health care cost are rising with the exception of:

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Sequestration

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a managed care organization?

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Unlimited access to specialists and technology

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There is no rationing of health care in the modern U.S health care system.

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False

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The state in the united states that attempted overt rationing of healthcare is

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Oregon

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Baby boomers were born between

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1946 to 1964

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Which of the following best describes factors that we currently believe affect health in old age?

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Smoking Diet and physical activity Medical care ALL OF THE ABOVE

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Before the ACA, 20% of the US population under 65 is uninsured.

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True

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Medicare covers nursing home stays

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False

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