INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH CHAPTER 6 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Evidence-based public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Development of information, using scientific
principles, that can inform public health practice so that it is effective, efficient, and equitable.
Evidence-based medicine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current
best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
Effectiveness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Focuses on whether the desired benefits of public health
practices—programs, policies, and services—are achieved.
Efficiency - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅focuses on how the benefits achieved by public health compare to
the resources expended to realize them, and whether alternate practices would have achieved greater
benefits or the same benefits using few resources.
Equity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Addresses the fairness and effectiveness of polices in minimizing
population health disparities.
Population-level indicators - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Often the measure of impact of a program, service,
or policy. These include population mortality and morbidity rates.
Mortality rate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Number of deaths in a given population per year.
Age-adjusted death rate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Number of deaths in a given population per year,
adjusted for the population's age distribution. Used to compare mortality rates across populations with
different age distributions so that age distribution differences do not explain observed differences in
mortality rate.
Disease-specific death rate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mortality rate for deaths due to only one disease or
cause.
AND ANSWERS
Evidence-based public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Development of information, using scientific
principles, that can inform public health practice so that it is effective, efficient, and equitable.
Evidence-based medicine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current
best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.
Effectiveness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Focuses on whether the desired benefits of public health
practices—programs, policies, and services—are achieved.
Efficiency - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅focuses on how the benefits achieved by public health compare to
the resources expended to realize them, and whether alternate practices would have achieved greater
benefits or the same benefits using few resources.
Equity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Addresses the fairness and effectiveness of polices in minimizing
population health disparities.
Population-level indicators - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Often the measure of impact of a program, service,
or policy. These include population mortality and morbidity rates.
Mortality rate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Number of deaths in a given population per year.
Age-adjusted death rate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Number of deaths in a given population per year,
adjusted for the population's age distribution. Used to compare mortality rates across populations with
different age distributions so that age distribution differences do not explain observed differences in
mortality rate.
Disease-specific death rate - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mortality rate for deaths due to only one disease or
cause.
