midterm

Which of the following informs the essential public health services and core functions that the public health system should undertake to prevent disease and promote health in all communities?
Answer: Research

Colorectal cancer screening is an example of which level of prevention?
Answer: Secondary prevention

Public health differs from healthcare in which of the following ways?
Answer: The “patient” is the population.

Which of the following is NOT a fundamental principle of public health?
Answer: Increase in population size

To be effective, the public health system requires _____________.
Answer: All of the above

Immunization against measles is an example of which level of prevention?
Answer: Primary prevention

Public health today is responsible only for preventing infectious diseases that occur in communities.
Answer: False

Which of the following is NOT one of the three Ps describing the mission of public health?
Answer: Presentation

The origin of public health in the United States began with which event?
Answer: Yellow fever outbreak

Public health is a multidisciplinary field focused on preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health for populations around the world.
Answer: True

Foot checks for diabetic patients are an example of which level of prevention?
Answer: Tertiary prevention

Which core public health function involves identifying health problems and priorities?
Answer: Assessment

Enforcing regulations to improve poor quality housing is an example of which type of determinant intervention?
Answer: Midstream

Social determinants of health account more for one’s health status than care provided by the healthcare system.
Answer: True

Which of the following is a health determinant?
Answer: All of the above

Which determinant includes reform of fundamental social and economic structures that redistribute wealth, power, opportunities, and decision-making abilities?
Answer: Upstream

Providing meals via school buses to all schoolchildren who are out of school because of the COVID-19 pandemic is an example of what?
Answer: Equality

Population health is distinct, or different, from public health.
Answer: False

Population health considers which of the following factors and its contribution to health?
Answer: All of the above

Resources that improve the social determinants of health can improve the quality of life and result in improved population health outcomes.
Answer: True

All health determinants are under one’s control.
Answer: False

Which determinant attempts to increase equitable access to healthcare and social services for the population?
Answer: Downstream

True or False? Where you live can influence your life expectancy.
Answer: True

Which level of the socioecological model focuses on prevention strategies that impact the social and physical environment by reducing social isolation, expanding economic and housing opportunities in neighborhoods, and improving the processes, policies, and social environment within school and workplace settings?
Answer: Community

True or False? People with lower socioeconomic positions have worse health.
Answer: True

Which of the following describes collective efficacy?
Answer: Influences what people choose to do as a group to improve their community, how much effort they put into it, and their staying power when group efforts fail to produce results. It is often described as the “glue” that binds communities together.

Which of the following describes social capital?
Answer: The processes and conditions among people and organizations that lead to their accomplishing a goal of mutual social benefit, usually characterized by interrelated constructs of trust, cooperation, civic engagement, and reciprocity reinforced by networking.

Which level of the socioecological model focuses on prevention strategies that promote attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that prevent the harmful outcome?
Answer: Individual

Which of the following represents an action area in the Culture of Health Action Framework?
Answer: All of the above

Which construct suggests that determinants such as the social and physical environment, genetic endowment, prosperity, healthcare access, and individual behavior all factor into the health of a population?
Answer: Field model of health and well-being

Which of the following actions represents a Health in All Policies approach?
Answer: All of the above

Which of the following describes social cohesion?
Answer: Camaraderie among community members to address economic and health disparities and the strength of those relationships.

Population health management approaches aim to improve the delivery of healthcare services, with an emphasis on achieving the highest quality of care at the lowest cost at the population level.
Answer: True

The Prevention and Public Health Fund is the first mandatory funding source in the United States allocated to improving the nation’s public health system.
Answer: True

In response to an increase in vape-related illnesses and deaths among young people in Massachusetts, the state governor implemented a prevention strategy that involved what?
Answer: A ban on the sale of flavored vapes and tobacco products

Prevention strategies can implement approaches at which of the following levels?
Answer: All of the above

Which of the following describes a secondary prevention approach?
Answer: All of the above

Which of the following describes a primary prevention approach?
Answer: All of the above

Which of the following population health management factors should be implemented in a clinical setting?
Answer: All of the above

ACEs are traumatic childhood events that can make an individual susceptible to chronic disease, mental health, and substance abuse issues in adulthood.
Answer: True

Which of the following population health management factors are worth considering from a prevention standpoint?
Answer: All of the above

Which of the following is a prevention strategy developed to reduce opioid overdose deaths?
Answer: All of the above