CPH Exam

Local Health Departments (LHDs) are involved in community health assessments and improvement plannings. Which of the following are among the roles of Local Health Departments?

A Gathering, analyzing, and disseminating health data to respective communities.

B^ Developing and applying health promoting and disease preventing activities for communities.

C Defining preventable health problems and maintaining active surveillance of disease.

D Developing and testing operational programs relating to recent health problems and outbreaks.

A Gathering, analyzing, and disseminating health data to respective communities.

Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to do which of the following regarding human exposure to elemental mercury?

Prohibit the sale, distribution of, and transfer of elemental mercury by federal agencies.

A university scientist has received federal funding to study the effect of excessive exposure to fertilizers on respiratory and neurological systems in farmers. Any release of information linking data to individual farmers is regulated under which of the following legislative acts?

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

As described by FEMA, which five preparedness mission areas under the National Planning Framework describe how a whole community can achieve the National Preparedness Goal?

Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, Recovery

A budget statement for a public health program provides a detailed itemization of expenses and

revenue

Most funding for nursing home care in the United States comes from which of the following sources?

Medicaid

Researchers ask a random sample of 1,001 adults nationwide whether they favor or oppose the legalization of marijuana. Fifty-five percent of respondents say they oppose it. If the researchers increase the sample size of the poll by a factor of 4 (to n=4,004), which of the following effects on the length of the 95% confidence interval for the proportion is most likely to be observed?

It will decrease by a factor of 2.

Which scale measures an individual's attitude about a specific topic based on opposite adjectives?

A semantic differential scale

According to the transtheoretical model of change, as individuals go from pre-contemplation to maintenance, "con" behavioral beliefs decrease and "pro" behavioral beliefs increase. This process is best described as which of the following?

decisional balance

Passive immunity is produced by

transfer of antibodies of activated T-cells from a host.

When researching a stakeholder, you discover that their mission closely relates to that of the organization you work for. What is not something you should strategize about with this stakeholder?

How to better develop a more diverse mission statement to diverge from that of the stakeholder.

In addition to ozone and particulates, which of the following pollutants is most likely to aggravate asthma?

sulfur dioxide

When looking at the economic impact of an HIV prevention program focusing on Pre-exposure Prophylasix(PrEP) targeting men having sex with men (MSM), what should be considered?

deciding on funding allocations and if the program could enroll and engage more MSM on PrEP by using community based model or clinic based model.

In the following contingency table, 100 subjects are classified according to their exposure and disease status. 

Under the null hypothesis of independence between exposure and disease, what is the expected number of diseased subjects who are exposed?

(30 x 20) / 100

A public health professional is notified of a $5,000 cut to the budget for the department's diabetes education program that has been in place for several years. Below is the budget for this year's program:

It is expected that the program will continue serving 250 community members. To maintain program fidelity, which of the following is the best option for making the budget cuts?

A Ask the community to provide meeting space as an in-kind contribution.

B Require participants pay for the workbook costs to indicate their commitment.

C Reduce FTE support for personnel because less material development time is necessary.

D Remove the incentives for participants because the ongoing program has been effective.

C Reduce FTE support for personnel because less material development time is necessary.

Researchers are seeking a spokesperson for a health communication campaign to promote breast cancer screening for low-income women. To ensure the strongest effect of the campaign on the target group, the researcher should select a spokesperson who shares which of the following characteristics with the target group?

personal attitudes

The classic study by Schulman on the effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac care used a standardized computer program to measure primary care physicians' treatment plans for patients with chest pain. The investigators videotaped interviews of identically dressed actors reading from identical scripts and standardized other variables (age, cardiac risk factors, medical and social histories, health insurance, and employment) to vary only two factors — gender and race. The actors included African Americans and whites of both genders. Which of the following statements best summarizes the results of this study?

African Americans and women with chest pain had relative odds of referral for cardiac catheterization that were 60% of the odds for whites and men, and the relative odds of referral for African Americans were 40% of those for white men

health department is designing a web-based health promotion intervention. Which of the following issues is most important with regard to effective communication of this health information to the community?

the health literacy of the target population

To ensure successful collaboration and partnership, as well as effective use of resources, a public health professional needs to identify key stakeholders in a new project. Which of the following will determine if an organization is truly one of the key stakeholders for this initiative?

The public health professional can clearly identify what is needed from the organization.

A supplemental tax levy supporting a local health department has just failed and the impact will be a loss of tax revenues of $300,000 a month, beginning the following month and lasting at least 5 months. The health commissioner must quickly formulate an emergency plan. Which action is most likely to advance the commissioner's success as a leader in this crisis?

Meet with all the directors to prioritize the possible operational changes that would result in cost reductions.

The introduction of sewage into a stream is most likely to cause a measurable change in which of the following ways?

increase in biochemical oxygen demand

Which of the following most accurately describes an organizational design that applies to independent units that are joined by a shared administrative overlay, such as a county government?

divisionalized bureaucracy

A 22-year-old Latina woman brings her 13-month-old daughter to a health department clinic for routine well-child care. Both are enrolled in the Medicaid program. They live in an inner-city apartment building that the mother describes as "old and run down." The infant's diet consists of table foods; the principal protein sources are eggs, peanut butter, cheese, and canned tuna. Screening of the infant for which of the following conditions is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?

elevated blood lead concentration

An openness to and respect for cultural and ethnic differences in values, customs, and practices best describes which of the following terms?

Ethnosensitivity

A health department has notified a hospital's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) that it will place the hospital on water restriction due to high levels of Legionella. While on the phone with government officials, the hospital CEO takes detailed notes of the affected areas and asks questions to better understand the situation. He later hosts a town hall meeting with staff to discuss the Legionella problem and share mitigation strategies that are underway. Which effective emergency and risk communication principle is being used by the CEO?

Be Right

which of the following is an example of a nominal variable

1. A) income

2. B) state of residence

3. C) year of graduation

4. D) level of satisfaction

B) state of residence

a researcher is conducting a community assessment to determine the education level of community members who utilize an HIV mobile testing lab. What kind of measurement is being used for the outcome variable

Ordinal

the distribution of ages of death within a population is typically skewed since most people in the population will die at an older age. The mean age of death within a large sample taken from this population would be expected to have a

Normal distribution bc CLT: distribution of means of these samples will be normally distributed as long as the samples are large enough

what is an example of a type 1 error

rejecting a true null hypothesis

the ability to reject a false null hypothesis is

power

the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis is described by the

p value

it is the statement of the probability that the difference was observed by chance if the groups were really alike as stated in the null hypothesis

a researcher has collected data on the household income levels as well as whether or not members of that household have been vaccinated a/g a particular disease. How would this researcher write a null hypothesis?

Income of the vaccinated = income fo the unvaccinated

you are looking to compare colorectal cancer screening rates in caucasian men and black men. 100 caucaisian men and black men are contacted via email and indicate wheter or not they have been screened. After collecting your data, what statistical test would be th emost appropriate to use for analysis?

Chi square

what test would best be used for comparing the mean ages of participants between two groups

two sample t test

a researcher is measuring the bmi between four diff groups and is hoping to see if the mean sof each group diff in a signficant way. The best to use here would be:

anova

researchers are using the estimate the probability of who will develop type 2 diabetes based on reported data pertaining to BMI, Blood cholesterol levels, weekly minutes of physical activity, and sleep habits. the best method of analysis would be

logistic regression

a hospital adminstrator needs to know how many beds should be available at their location to treat people who may walk in with disease. This would reflect the need to know the disease:

prevalence: includes all current cases