PUBLIC HEALTH JOURNEYMAN COMPREHENSIVE 2026
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔When a patient indicates difficulty in taking multidose medications, a
healthcare provider may select a single-dose injection. This is an example of which
consideration for treatment of gonorrhea?
✔✔Trachoma - ✔✔What is a chronic infectious disease of the conjunctiva and cornea
that produces photophobia, pain, and excessive tearing?
✔✔Tissue culture - ✔✔What is considered to be the standard test for identifying the
chlamydia in genital infections?
✔✔Skin Scraping - ✔✔Which diagnostic method is the quickest for identifying
chlamydia in genital infections?
✔✔Tissue culture - ✔✔Which diagnostic method is the most specific and sensitive to
confirm herpes?
✔✔Lymphogranuloma Venereum - ✔✔What disease starts with a pimple-like sore and,
if left untreated, forms a bubo in most patients?
✔✔Acute HSV1 infection - ✔✔Which symptom does not assist healthcare providers in
diagnosing AIDS?
✔✔Western Blot - ✔✔Which diagnostic method is the most specific for identifying
individuals within high-risk groups who are positive for HIV?
✔✔The interviewer must control the conversation - ✔✔There are two keys to conducting
a successful interview concerning STDs. The first key is the interviewer must be
knowledgeable. What is the second?
✔✔Using condoms properly - ✔✔What method of preventing STD among sexually
active people is most effective?
✔✔A - ✔✔Which form of hepatitis is most commonly found in child development
centers?
✔✔B - ✔✔Which form of hepatitis has an average incubation of 60 to 90 days?
✔✔Hepatitis B - ✔✔What must be present for the Delta virus to infect and cause
illness?
,✔✔Within 2 weeks - ✔✔In order for immunoglobulin to be effective, how soon must it be
given after exposure to hepatitis?
✔✔Dentist - ✔✔Who is at highest risk of a hepatitis B infection?
✔✔Provide education and sanitary controls - ✔✔What is the key to effectively
controlling and preventing the spread of viral hepatitis?
✔✔Cholera - ✔✔What is an acute disease that has sudden onset of profuse watery
stools, occasional vomiting, rapid dehydration, and circulatory collapse?
✔✔Complete AF form 570, Notification of Patient's Medical Status - ✔✔How does a
healthcare provider notify PH of a suspected communicable disease?
✔✔Poor personal hygiene of the patient - ✔✔What is one source of endogenous
infection for a patient in a hospital?
✔✔Frequent and thorough handwashing, especially prior to working on patients -
✔✔Which method is the most effective way to avoid transmission of infection from
hospital employee to patient?
✔✔Central supply - ✔✔Which office is responsible for maintaining proper disinfection
and sterilization of hospital supplies?
✔✔Salmonellosis - ✔✔Which foodborne illness has an average incubation time of 18
hours, and symptoms varying from nausea to severe headahce, chills, fever, violent
retching, colic and diarrhea?
✔✔Potato salad - ✔✔Which food is susceptible to contamination by streptococcal
organisms if improperly handled?
✔✔Campylobacter Enteritis - ✔✔Which disease is more common than both
salmonellosis and shigellosis?
✔✔Bacteria - ✔✔Which source is the most common cause of foodborne intoxication?
✔✔Public Health Services - ✔✔Who should give training on foodborne illness
investigations to medical personnel who have initial patient contact?
✔✔List the foods consumed for 72 hours and record symptoms with onsets and
duration - ✔✔AF Form 431, Food Poisoning Outbreak - Individual Case History, is
completed to ____
, ✔✔Stage 3. Acute Neurological Phase - ✔✔Immunizations for rabies after exposure to
the disease must be given prior to the onset of encephalitis, which is in which stage of
rabies?
✔✔Dogs - ✔✔What is the primary reservoir of rabies in most foreign countries?
✔✔Army Veterinarian - ✔✔When an animal is suspected in a bite case on base, who
has the responsibility for determining if the animal has rabies?
✔✔Human diploid cell vaccine - ✔✔Which immunization is given to treat personnel
exposed to rabies?
✔✔Base Commander - ✔✔Who has the ultimate responsibility for ensuring personnel
are protected from vector-borne disease?
✔✔Aerospace Medicine Council - ✔✔Who establishes the frequency for surveying
disease vectors on base?
✔✔Public Health - ✔✔Who determines the need for aerial spraying of pesticides to
control vectors or medically important pests?
✔✔Air Force Institute for Operational Health - ✔✔Who provides vector identification for
bases in the CONUS?
✔✔Phylum - ✔✔What is the first classification or grouping within the animal or plant
kingdom?
✔✔Species - ✔✔In most cases, what is the lowest major division in the classification
system of insects?
✔✔Human - ✔✔Which animal has an endoskeletal structure?
✔✔Complete metamorphosis - ✔✔Which type of metamorphosis is a growth cycle that
includes four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
✔✔Diptera - ✔✔Flies, mosquitoes, midges, and punkies belong to which order of
insects?
✔✔Culex - ✔✔Which mosquito genus deposits its eggs so they are attached together to
form rafts that float on the water?
✔✔Pupal - ✔✔During which stage do mosquitoes abstain from feeding?
✔✔Dengue fever - ✔✔Which disease is sometimes called "breakbone fever"?
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔When a patient indicates difficulty in taking multidose medications, a
healthcare provider may select a single-dose injection. This is an example of which
consideration for treatment of gonorrhea?
✔✔Trachoma - ✔✔What is a chronic infectious disease of the conjunctiva and cornea
that produces photophobia, pain, and excessive tearing?
✔✔Tissue culture - ✔✔What is considered to be the standard test for identifying the
chlamydia in genital infections?
✔✔Skin Scraping - ✔✔Which diagnostic method is the quickest for identifying
chlamydia in genital infections?
✔✔Tissue culture - ✔✔Which diagnostic method is the most specific and sensitive to
confirm herpes?
✔✔Lymphogranuloma Venereum - ✔✔What disease starts with a pimple-like sore and,
if left untreated, forms a bubo in most patients?
✔✔Acute HSV1 infection - ✔✔Which symptom does not assist healthcare providers in
diagnosing AIDS?
✔✔Western Blot - ✔✔Which diagnostic method is the most specific for identifying
individuals within high-risk groups who are positive for HIV?
✔✔The interviewer must control the conversation - ✔✔There are two keys to conducting
a successful interview concerning STDs. The first key is the interviewer must be
knowledgeable. What is the second?
✔✔Using condoms properly - ✔✔What method of preventing STD among sexually
active people is most effective?
✔✔A - ✔✔Which form of hepatitis is most commonly found in child development
centers?
✔✔B - ✔✔Which form of hepatitis has an average incubation of 60 to 90 days?
✔✔Hepatitis B - ✔✔What must be present for the Delta virus to infect and cause
illness?
,✔✔Within 2 weeks - ✔✔In order for immunoglobulin to be effective, how soon must it be
given after exposure to hepatitis?
✔✔Dentist - ✔✔Who is at highest risk of a hepatitis B infection?
✔✔Provide education and sanitary controls - ✔✔What is the key to effectively
controlling and preventing the spread of viral hepatitis?
✔✔Cholera - ✔✔What is an acute disease that has sudden onset of profuse watery
stools, occasional vomiting, rapid dehydration, and circulatory collapse?
✔✔Complete AF form 570, Notification of Patient's Medical Status - ✔✔How does a
healthcare provider notify PH of a suspected communicable disease?
✔✔Poor personal hygiene of the patient - ✔✔What is one source of endogenous
infection for a patient in a hospital?
✔✔Frequent and thorough handwashing, especially prior to working on patients -
✔✔Which method is the most effective way to avoid transmission of infection from
hospital employee to patient?
✔✔Central supply - ✔✔Which office is responsible for maintaining proper disinfection
and sterilization of hospital supplies?
✔✔Salmonellosis - ✔✔Which foodborne illness has an average incubation time of 18
hours, and symptoms varying from nausea to severe headahce, chills, fever, violent
retching, colic and diarrhea?
✔✔Potato salad - ✔✔Which food is susceptible to contamination by streptococcal
organisms if improperly handled?
✔✔Campylobacter Enteritis - ✔✔Which disease is more common than both
salmonellosis and shigellosis?
✔✔Bacteria - ✔✔Which source is the most common cause of foodborne intoxication?
✔✔Public Health Services - ✔✔Who should give training on foodborne illness
investigations to medical personnel who have initial patient contact?
✔✔List the foods consumed for 72 hours and record symptoms with onsets and
duration - ✔✔AF Form 431, Food Poisoning Outbreak - Individual Case History, is
completed to ____
, ✔✔Stage 3. Acute Neurological Phase - ✔✔Immunizations for rabies after exposure to
the disease must be given prior to the onset of encephalitis, which is in which stage of
rabies?
✔✔Dogs - ✔✔What is the primary reservoir of rabies in most foreign countries?
✔✔Army Veterinarian - ✔✔When an animal is suspected in a bite case on base, who
has the responsibility for determining if the animal has rabies?
✔✔Human diploid cell vaccine - ✔✔Which immunization is given to treat personnel
exposed to rabies?
✔✔Base Commander - ✔✔Who has the ultimate responsibility for ensuring personnel
are protected from vector-borne disease?
✔✔Aerospace Medicine Council - ✔✔Who establishes the frequency for surveying
disease vectors on base?
✔✔Public Health - ✔✔Who determines the need for aerial spraying of pesticides to
control vectors or medically important pests?
✔✔Air Force Institute for Operational Health - ✔✔Who provides vector identification for
bases in the CONUS?
✔✔Phylum - ✔✔What is the first classification or grouping within the animal or plant
kingdom?
✔✔Species - ✔✔In most cases, what is the lowest major division in the classification
system of insects?
✔✔Human - ✔✔Which animal has an endoskeletal structure?
✔✔Complete metamorphosis - ✔✔Which type of metamorphosis is a growth cycle that
includes four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
✔✔Diptera - ✔✔Flies, mosquitoes, midges, and punkies belong to which order of
insects?
✔✔Culex - ✔✔Which mosquito genus deposits its eggs so they are attached together to
form rafts that float on the water?
✔✔Pupal - ✔✔During which stage do mosquitoes abstain from feeding?
✔✔Dengue fever - ✔✔Which disease is sometimes called "breakbone fever"?
