AHEC Comprehensive Exam: Study Guide and
Preparation
AHEC (Area Health Education Center) goals (3) - correct answer ✔✔1) Diversity
2) Distribution of the healthcare work force
3) Practice transformation with emphasis on rural and underserved areas
In 2016, the CDC and NSCARB (National strategy to combat abx-resistant bacteria) and funded state
health departments to - correct answer ✔✔help screen for and tackle antibiotic resistance
what ratio of deaths is due to cancer? - correct answer ✔✔1 in 4 deaths (25% of deaths) due to cancer
7 health threats in the USA - correct answer ✔✔1) Zika and pregnancy
2) Antibiotic resistance
3) Cancer
4) Rx drug overdose
5) Global health security
6) Tobacco use
7) Rapid response to outbreaks
Former leading cause of cancer death for women in the US - correct answer ✔✔Cervical cancer
Since 1999, on opioid prescriptions... - correct answer ✔✔Since 1999, opioid precriptions have
quadrupled, and over 180,000 people have died from Rx opioids
Leading cause of preventable death - correct answer ✔✔Smoking is the leading cause of preventable
death, as it leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.
, In 2016, the CDC identified a source of Leguinnaire's disease outbreak, and has used the same process to
map... - correct answer ✔✔has used the same process (AMD) to map Zika virus strains
In 2017, the CDC plans to build Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) capacity in... - correct answer
✔✔state and local labs
The two types of HPV strains - correct answer ✔✔1) cancer caused by 16 and 18 (as well as 31 and 33)
2) warts caused by 6 and 11
HPV infection MC in people in which age group? - correct answer ✔✔teens and early 20s
In women,
1) Highest rate of overall HPV cancer in among... (which 2 races)
2) Lowest rates of HPV cancer among... - correct answer ✔✔1) Black and Hispanic females
2) Asian and Pacific islanders
Rates of HPV cancer between Hispanic vs. non-hispanic women - correct answer ✔✔HPV cancer higher
in Hispanic women than non-hispanic women
Highest rate of HPV cancer among men - correct answer ✔✔White men
1) HPV anal cancer (2)
2) HPV oropharyngeal cancer among men
3) HPV penile cancer
4) HPV vaginal cancer - correct answer ✔✔1) White women, then black men
2) White men
3) Hispanic men
4) Black female
Preparation
AHEC (Area Health Education Center) goals (3) - correct answer ✔✔1) Diversity
2) Distribution of the healthcare work force
3) Practice transformation with emphasis on rural and underserved areas
In 2016, the CDC and NSCARB (National strategy to combat abx-resistant bacteria) and funded state
health departments to - correct answer ✔✔help screen for and tackle antibiotic resistance
what ratio of deaths is due to cancer? - correct answer ✔✔1 in 4 deaths (25% of deaths) due to cancer
7 health threats in the USA - correct answer ✔✔1) Zika and pregnancy
2) Antibiotic resistance
3) Cancer
4) Rx drug overdose
5) Global health security
6) Tobacco use
7) Rapid response to outbreaks
Former leading cause of cancer death for women in the US - correct answer ✔✔Cervical cancer
Since 1999, on opioid prescriptions... - correct answer ✔✔Since 1999, opioid precriptions have
quadrupled, and over 180,000 people have died from Rx opioids
Leading cause of preventable death - correct answer ✔✔Smoking is the leading cause of preventable
death, as it leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.
, In 2016, the CDC identified a source of Leguinnaire's disease outbreak, and has used the same process to
map... - correct answer ✔✔has used the same process (AMD) to map Zika virus strains
In 2017, the CDC plans to build Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) capacity in... - correct answer
✔✔state and local labs
The two types of HPV strains - correct answer ✔✔1) cancer caused by 16 and 18 (as well as 31 and 33)
2) warts caused by 6 and 11
HPV infection MC in people in which age group? - correct answer ✔✔teens and early 20s
In women,
1) Highest rate of overall HPV cancer in among... (which 2 races)
2) Lowest rates of HPV cancer among... - correct answer ✔✔1) Black and Hispanic females
2) Asian and Pacific islanders
Rates of HPV cancer between Hispanic vs. non-hispanic women - correct answer ✔✔HPV cancer higher
in Hispanic women than non-hispanic women
Highest rate of HPV cancer among men - correct answer ✔✔White men
1) HPV anal cancer (2)
2) HPV oropharyngeal cancer among men
3) HPV penile cancer
4) HPV vaginal cancer - correct answer ✔✔1) White women, then black men
2) White men
3) Hispanic men
4) Black female
