Why is Maternal and Child Health critically important? (Check ALL that apply.)
It shapes the future of health for populations
It is an important indicator of the overall health of society/populations
It can provide insight about the health of the next generation correct answers It shapes the fut...
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Why is Maternal and Child Health critically important? (Check ALL that apply.)
It shapes the future of health for populations
It is an important indicator of the overall health of society/populations
It can provide insight about the health of the next generation correct answers It shapes the future
of health for populations
It is an important indicator of the overall health of society/populations
It can provide insight about the health of the next generation
What is the primary purpose of the Data Brief?
A. Demonstrate evidence for intervention effectiveness
B. Critically evaluate of how to improve implementation of interventions
C. Determine causal evidence of a link between a risk factor and a health issue
D. Provide summaries about health topics using graphics and easily digestible writing correct
answers D. Provide summaries about health topics using graphics and easily digestible writing
What overall course outcomes or project-specific objectives will be met by completing the
Group Presentation on Interventions? (Check ALL that apply)
Building skills to advocate for public health interventions
Learning how to better shoulder all the work for a team project
Critical thinking about the design of public health programs
Building skills for successful group work implementation
Analyze quantitative data to describe a health issue
Apply public health theory to evaluate a public health intervention correct answers Building
skills to advocate for public health interventions
Critical thinking about the design of public health programs
Building skills for successful group work implementation
Apply public health theory to evaluate a public health intervention
True/False.
In 1900, it was illegal under federal and state laws to distribute information and to counsel
patients about contraception and contraceptive devices. correct answers True
True/False. Infections were a leading cause of maternal and infant mortality in the early 1900s.
correct answers
Declines in infant mortality in the United States have been attributed to what factors? (Check
ALL that apply)
Mosquito bednets
Welfare programs like Medicaid
Family leave policies
Improved sanitation
Folic acid supplementation correct answers Welfare programs like Medicaid
Improved sanitation
,Folic acid supplementation
Declines in maternal mortality in the U.S. have been attributed to what factors? (Check ALL that
apply)
Excessive surgical and obstetric interventions
Advances like antibiotics and safe blood transfusions
The rise in home births
Sterilization of surgical equipment/aspetic practices
Contraception and abortion availability correct answers Advances like antibiotics and safe blood
transfusions
Sterilization of surgical equipment/aspetic practices
Contraception and abortion availability
True/False. Currently, the U.S. ranks as one of the highest (best) nations in terms of their infant
and maternal health outcomes. correct answers False - The U.S. often ranks poorly relative to
other comparable high-income countries.
What is the importance of the first step of the Public Health Approach? (Select all that apply.)
Understand the cause of the problem
Provide information about the problem for action
The first step is the least important step
Motivate interventions by informing advocacy efforts correct answers Provide information about
the problem for action
Motivate interventions by informing advocacy efforts
What is the average time it takes to translate scientific discovery to public health action (i.e.,
programmatic or policy change?)
25 years or more
Less than 5 years
15-24 years
5-14 years correct answers 15-24 years
Why was the "Folic Acid" public health intervention such a successful public health "story"?
(Select All that Apply.)
Policy makers used birth registry data to make it illegal if women do not take prenatal vitamins
The time between discovery of the cause and practical intervention to impact was very short
There were huge reductions in neural tube defects after the intervention
Health equity approaches were considered from the very beginning correct answers The time
between discovery of the cause and practical intervention to impact was very short
There were huge reductions in neural tube defects after the intervention
Consider the issue of child asthma caused by gas stoves. Match the public health approach to its
application in a public health intervention to reduce this asthma caused by gas stoves.
, Public health approach:
Health Equality approach
Health Equity Approach
Social Justice
Application:
Government sponsored removal of all gas appliances in all homes
Tax credits (~$50) for all electric appliance installation
Government sponsored removal of gas appliances in low-incomes homes correct answers Health
Equality approach: Tax credits (~$50) for all electric appliance installation
Health Equity Approach: Government sponsored removal of gas appliances in low-incomes
homes
Social Justice: Government sponsored removal of all gas appliances in all homes
Related to fertility in the late 1800s and early 1900s, which of the following was true?
Abortion was made legal with the passing of the Comstock laws, which impacted fertility rates
Society and science understood ovulation so women were able to use natural family planning
methods to control their fertility
Advocacy and efforts to open family planning clinics, led by (eugenicist) Margaret Sanger, led to
what became Planned Parenthood
Women were able to receive contraception like condoms in the mail and prevent unwanted
pregnancy correct answers Advocacy and efforts to open family planning clinics, led by
(eugenicist) Margaret Sanger, led to what became Planned Parenthood
What determinant from the list below is NOT a social determinant of health?
Education
Housing
Age
Social support
Family Income correct answers Age
The Social Ecological Approach provides a conceptual basis for how to target public health
interventions. Using this approach to reduce postpartum depression could incorporate
interventions such as __________. (select all that apply)
Soley focus on providing mothers with antidepressants to treat symptoms
Policies for paid maternity leave
Building community resources for social support for new mothers
Create health policies to screen those with a recent birth for depression
Creating safe spaces in the neighborhoods e.g., for exercise to alleviate depressive symptoms
correct answers Policies for paid maternity leave
Building community resources for social support for new mothers
Create health policies to screen those with a recent birth for depression
Creating safe spaces in the neighborhoods e.g., for exercise to alleviate depressive symptoms
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