HSC 317 ACTUAL FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Community health concerns of the 21st century include:
a.) lifestyle diseases
b.) environmental problems
c.) healthcare delivery
d.) all of these are correct - ✔✔d.) all of these are correct
lifestyle diseases, environmental problems, healthcare delivery
✔✔T/F A disease that lasts 3 months or less is a chronic disease - ✔✔False;
an acute disease
✔✔An epidemic curve depicting a distribution of cases traceable to multiple sources of
exposure is a:
a.) case control study
b.) descriptive study
c.) point source epidemic curve
d.) propagated epidemic curve - ✔✔d.) propagated epidemic curve
✔✔T/F The number of years a healthy life expected, on average, in a given population
is the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) - ✔✔False;
it is the health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE)
✔✔T/F An unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health-related
behavior, or other health-related event in a particular population is defined as a
pandemic - ✔✔False;
defined as epidemic
✔✔T/F An attack rate is an incidence rate calculated for a particular population for a
single disease outbreak and is expressed as a percentage - ✔✔True
, ✔✔The number of events that occur in a given population in a given period of time is a:
a.) rate
b.) case
c.) notifiable disease
d.) pandemic - ✔✔a.) rate
✔✔Studies that seek to describe the extent of disease in regard to person, place, and
time are:
a.) case/control studies
b.) observation studies
c.) analytic studies
d.) descriptive studies - ✔✔d.) descriptive studies
✔✔T/F Sometimes notifiable diseases are not reported to the local health department
because patients recover without a diagnosis being confirmed - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F The average number of years a person from a specific cohort is projected to live
from a given point in time is his or her life expectancy - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F The rate of an illness in a population is the natality rate - ✔✔False;
Morbidity (sickness) rate
✔✔T/F A clinic is a facility in which 2 or more physicians practice as a group - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F The Hill-Burton Act provided substantial funds for medical education - ✔✔False;
provided funds for hospital construction
✔✔In the third-party payment system, the patient is the:
a.) first party
b.) service
c.) third party
d.) second party - ✔✔a.) first party
✔✔T/F The spectrum of healthcare delivery refers to the various types of care - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F Self-care has been used historically in America and is still used today - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F Public hospitals are often found in small, rural communities - ✔✔False;
usually found in larger cities that are supported and managed by governmental
jurisdictions
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Community health concerns of the 21st century include:
a.) lifestyle diseases
b.) environmental problems
c.) healthcare delivery
d.) all of these are correct - ✔✔d.) all of these are correct
lifestyle diseases, environmental problems, healthcare delivery
✔✔T/F A disease that lasts 3 months or less is a chronic disease - ✔✔False;
an acute disease
✔✔An epidemic curve depicting a distribution of cases traceable to multiple sources of
exposure is a:
a.) case control study
b.) descriptive study
c.) point source epidemic curve
d.) propagated epidemic curve - ✔✔d.) propagated epidemic curve
✔✔T/F The number of years a healthy life expected, on average, in a given population
is the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) - ✔✔False;
it is the health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE)
✔✔T/F An unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health-related
behavior, or other health-related event in a particular population is defined as a
pandemic - ✔✔False;
defined as epidemic
✔✔T/F An attack rate is an incidence rate calculated for a particular population for a
single disease outbreak and is expressed as a percentage - ✔✔True
, ✔✔The number of events that occur in a given population in a given period of time is a:
a.) rate
b.) case
c.) notifiable disease
d.) pandemic - ✔✔a.) rate
✔✔Studies that seek to describe the extent of disease in regard to person, place, and
time are:
a.) case/control studies
b.) observation studies
c.) analytic studies
d.) descriptive studies - ✔✔d.) descriptive studies
✔✔T/F Sometimes notifiable diseases are not reported to the local health department
because patients recover without a diagnosis being confirmed - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F The average number of years a person from a specific cohort is projected to live
from a given point in time is his or her life expectancy - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F The rate of an illness in a population is the natality rate - ✔✔False;
Morbidity (sickness) rate
✔✔T/F A clinic is a facility in which 2 or more physicians practice as a group - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F The Hill-Burton Act provided substantial funds for medical education - ✔✔False;
provided funds for hospital construction
✔✔In the third-party payment system, the patient is the:
a.) first party
b.) service
c.) third party
d.) second party - ✔✔a.) first party
✔✔T/F The spectrum of healthcare delivery refers to the various types of care - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F Self-care has been used historically in America and is still used today - ✔✔True
✔✔T/F Public hospitals are often found in small, rural communities - ✔✔False;
usually found in larger cities that are supported and managed by governmental
jurisdictions
