COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION
FOCUSED NURSING EXAMINATION TEST
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
●● What public health issues does the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act focus on?
Answer: 1. medical care financing
2. strategies for providing health insurance coverage to a higher
proportion of the population
●● T/F: Physician services + hospital cares combined = over half of the
health care expenditures in the US.
Answer: true
●● T/F: Medical insurance system reforms are important although alone
these reforms will NOT be adequate to improve US health.
Answer: true
●● T/F: Historically, fain in the health of populations have come largely
from public health efforts such as safety/adequacy of food supplies,
provision of safe water, sewage disposal, public safety from biological
threats and personal behavioral changes including reproductive
behaviors.
Answer: true
, ●● T/F: Public health is responsible for increasing lifespan from 47 in
1900 to 78 in 2005 (66% increase), especially d/t sanitation, clean water
supplies, safer workplaces, food/drug safety, immunizations, nutrition,
hygiene, and housing improvements.
Answer: true
●● What are the 10 great public health achievements in the 20th century
provided by the CDC?
Answer: 1. immunizations
2. motor vehicle safety
3. control of infectious diseases
4. safer and healthier foods
5. healthier mothers + babies
6. family planning
7. fluoridation of drinking water
8. tobacco as health hazard
9. declines in death d/t heart disease
10. declines in death d/t stroke
●● T/F: Public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people can be healthy.
Answer: true
FOCUSED NURSING EXAMINATION TEST
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
●● What public health issues does the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act focus on?
Answer: 1. medical care financing
2. strategies for providing health insurance coverage to a higher
proportion of the population
●● T/F: Physician services + hospital cares combined = over half of the
health care expenditures in the US.
Answer: true
●● T/F: Medical insurance system reforms are important although alone
these reforms will NOT be adequate to improve US health.
Answer: true
●● T/F: Historically, fain in the health of populations have come largely
from public health efforts such as safety/adequacy of food supplies,
provision of safe water, sewage disposal, public safety from biological
threats and personal behavioral changes including reproductive
behaviors.
Answer: true
, ●● T/F: Public health is responsible for increasing lifespan from 47 in
1900 to 78 in 2005 (66% increase), especially d/t sanitation, clean water
supplies, safer workplaces, food/drug safety, immunizations, nutrition,
hygiene, and housing improvements.
Answer: true
●● What are the 10 great public health achievements in the 20th century
provided by the CDC?
Answer: 1. immunizations
2. motor vehicle safety
3. control of infectious diseases
4. safer and healthier foods
5. healthier mothers + babies
6. family planning
7. fluoridation of drinking water
8. tobacco as health hazard
9. declines in death d/t heart disease
10. declines in death d/t stroke
●● T/F: Public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people can be healthy.
Answer: true
