Issues & Trends in Public Health Final Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Philadelphia created its first board of health in 1783 due to an outbreak of which of the following?
a. Cholera
b. Yellow fever
c. Tuberculosis
d. Diphtheria - answer✔Yellow fever
Which of the following is an abstract concept that determines how each member of society is allocated
his or her fair share of collective burdens and benefits?
a. Class
b. Science
c. Race
d. Justice - answer✔Justice
Between 1900 and 2000, the crude infectious disease mortality rate in the United States
a. declined by about 50%
b. remained unchanged
c. declined by about 90%
d. increased slightly due to the emergence of HIV infections - answer✔declined by about 90%
Public Health was characterized as fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which people
could be healthy by
d. C.E.A. Winslow - answer✔Institute of Medicine in "The Future of Public Health"
Based on a quick scan of Internet websites, which of these organizations is most closely affiliated with
local public health agencies across the United States?
a. ASTHO
b. NACCHO
c. CDC
d. APHA - answer✔NACCHO
In public health, the "pump handle" is a metaphor for which of the following?
a. convincing policymakers to take an action to protect public health
b. assuring a safe drinking water supply
c. discovering the cause of a public health problem
d. removing the source of a public health problem - answer✔removing the source of the public health
problem
Combining surveillance data on the types of influenza viruses circulation in wild birds, in farm animals
and people is an example of which of public health approach?
a. Primary prevention
b. the one health initiative
c. the socio-ecological model
d. environmental health - answer✔The one health initiative
The cholera epidemic of 1854 disproportionately affected lower social classes in London.
a. false
b. true - answer✔false
In which form of justice are collective actions leading to the assumption of additional burdens often
necessary in order to assure the fair distribution of societal benefits?
A renewed interest on the social determinants of health is a hallmark of which public health era in the
United States
a. Public Health 3.0
b. all of these
c. Public Health 2.0
d. Public Health 1.0 - answer✔Public Health 3.0
The measure of association that compares the risk of the health outcome in one group with the risk
(exposed group) among another group (unexposed group) by dividing the incidence or prevalence in the
first group by that of the second group is known as:
a. odds ratio
b. relative risk
c. attributable risk - answer✔relative risk
United States Census data are frequently used for get information on all of the below except?
a. allocation of congressional seats
b. health behaviors
c. health insurance coverages
d. denominator data for rate calculations - answer✔health behaviors
By the year 2016, tuberculosis, gastroenteritis, and diphtheria fell off the list of top 10 causes of death.
Which of the following is now on the list that was not on the list in 1900?
a. malignant neoplasms
b. gunshot wounds
c. intentional self-harm
d. STD's - answer✔intentional self-harm
True or false: crude and age-adjusted mortality rates have been declining at approximately the same
rate in the US over the past 50 years
a. true
b. false - answer✔false
Which of the following is the best source of information on adult and infant mortality?
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