HS 205 MIDTERM EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. A public health program planner is developing a new community planning initiative. They
specifically want to address community support and social network factors. Which determinant of
health would be ad-dressed?
Answer:
Social and community context
Question:
2. The U.S. Census, taken every 10 years, is an enumera-tion of the population living in the U.S.
Census data are important to health workers because they are used for calculating disease and death
rates and for program planning. Census data can be a valuable form of pri-mary data for County
Health Departments to use when conducting a needs assessment.
Answer:
False
Question:
3. Difference in health that are caused by something that society can change for example living
conditions, income, access to health care, built environment, we would say the health differences are
caused by
Answer:
Health inequities
Question:
4. A quasi-governmental health agency receives some government funding and has some official
(govern-ment) health responsibilities but operate, in part, like a voluntary health organization. They
act independent of government close supervision. Which is an example of a quasi-governmental
health agency?
Answer:
American Red Cross
Question:
5. Pneumonia and influenza account for a larger portion of deaths among you children and older
adults com-pared with other age groups. Symptoms for pneumonia and influenza are cough, fever,
shortness of breath, loss of appetite, low energy, and fatigue and nausea and vomiting, especially in
small children. After first onset, symptoms typically may worsen after 48 hours but will resolve
within 1-2 weeks. Pneumonia may be caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi while influenza is caused
by a virus. This is an example of:
Answer:
Communicable Acute
Question:
6. Which of the following is the largest source of funding for State Health Agencies in the U.S.?
Answer:
federal funding
, Question:
7. Public Health initiatives focused primarily on______ dis-eases during the 'Modern Era of Public
Health' and have since evolved to focus on primarily _____diseases during the 21st Century
Answer:
-Communicable -non-communicable
Question:
8. Health is impacted by a variety of different factors, but there are five major factors that contribute
to the de-terminants of health for a population. Discrimination and income fall under which of the
five major factors?
Answer:
Social environment or characteristics
Question:
9. You are a health educator at a high school. You have been asked to create an intervention to reduce
the number of sexually transmitted infections (STI's) among students. At which level of prevention is
offering free, confiden-tial urine tests to check for chlamydia and gonorrhea?
Answer:
secondary
Question:
10. A public health professional is advocating for anti-poverty reform. Which determinant of health
would be addressed?
Answer:
economic stability
Question:
11. Who writes and releases Healthy People 2030?
Answer:
U.S department of Health and Human services
Question:
12. Which agency has the following responsibilities: con-duct sanitation and inspection services;
conduct com-municable disease control programs; collect health statistics; and deliver maternal and
child health ser-vices?
Answer:
Local health departments
Question:
13. You are a health educator at a high school. You have been asked to create an intervention to
reduce the number of asthma cases among students. At which level of prevention is obtaining free
inhalers from pharmaceutical companies to give to low-income stu-dents who have asthma?
Answer:
tertiary
Question:
14. Which of the following best describes an effort toward primary prevention?
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. A public health program planner is developing a new community planning initiative. They
specifically want to address community support and social network factors. Which determinant of
health would be ad-dressed?
Answer:
Social and community context
Question:
2. The U.S. Census, taken every 10 years, is an enumera-tion of the population living in the U.S.
Census data are important to health workers because they are used for calculating disease and death
rates and for program planning. Census data can be a valuable form of pri-mary data for County
Health Departments to use when conducting a needs assessment.
Answer:
False
Question:
3. Difference in health that are caused by something that society can change for example living
conditions, income, access to health care, built environment, we would say the health differences are
caused by
Answer:
Health inequities
Question:
4. A quasi-governmental health agency receives some government funding and has some official
(govern-ment) health responsibilities but operate, in part, like a voluntary health organization. They
act independent of government close supervision. Which is an example of a quasi-governmental
health agency?
Answer:
American Red Cross
Question:
5. Pneumonia and influenza account for a larger portion of deaths among you children and older
adults com-pared with other age groups. Symptoms for pneumonia and influenza are cough, fever,
shortness of breath, loss of appetite, low energy, and fatigue and nausea and vomiting, especially in
small children. After first onset, symptoms typically may worsen after 48 hours but will resolve
within 1-2 weeks. Pneumonia may be caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi while influenza is caused
by a virus. This is an example of:
Answer:
Communicable Acute
Question:
6. Which of the following is the largest source of funding for State Health Agencies in the U.S.?
Answer:
federal funding
, Question:
7. Public Health initiatives focused primarily on______ dis-eases during the 'Modern Era of Public
Health' and have since evolved to focus on primarily _____diseases during the 21st Century
Answer:
-Communicable -non-communicable
Question:
8. Health is impacted by a variety of different factors, but there are five major factors that contribute
to the de-terminants of health for a population. Discrimination and income fall under which of the
five major factors?
Answer:
Social environment or characteristics
Question:
9. You are a health educator at a high school. You have been asked to create an intervention to reduce
the number of sexually transmitted infections (STI's) among students. At which level of prevention is
offering free, confiden-tial urine tests to check for chlamydia and gonorrhea?
Answer:
secondary
Question:
10. A public health professional is advocating for anti-poverty reform. Which determinant of health
would be addressed?
Answer:
economic stability
Question:
11. Who writes and releases Healthy People 2030?
Answer:
U.S department of Health and Human services
Question:
12. Which agency has the following responsibilities: con-duct sanitation and inspection services;
conduct com-municable disease control programs; collect health statistics; and deliver maternal and
child health ser-vices?
Answer:
Local health departments
Question:
13. You are a health educator at a high school. You have been asked to create an intervention to
reduce the number of asthma cases among students. At which level of prevention is obtaining free
inhalers from pharmaceutical companies to give to low-income stu-dents who have asthma?
Answer:
tertiary
Question:
14. Which of the following best describes an effort toward primary prevention?
