and CORRECT Answers
___ describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic collection, analysis,
and interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating
public health interventions.
A. Screening
B. Disease investigation
C. Outreach
D. Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER -D. Surveillance
___ systematically gathers and analyzes data regarding threats to the health of populations and
ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases and others at risk, and determines control
measures.
A. Screening
B. Disease investigation
C. Outreach
D. Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER -B. Disease investigation
___ locates populations of interest or populations at risk and provides information about the
nature of the concern, what can be done about it, and how services can be obtained.
A. Screening
B. Disease investigation
C. Outreach
D. Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Outreach
___ identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease
conditions in populations.
A. Screening
B. Disease investigation
,C. Outreach
D. Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER -A. Screening
___ locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and connects them with
resources.
A. Surveillance
B. Screening
C. Outreach
D. Case-finding - CORRECT ANSWER -D. Case-finding
___ represents direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the authority of
a health care practitioner as allowed by law. Delegated functioned also include any direct care
tasks a registered professional nurse entrusts to other appropriate personnel to perform.
A. Health teaching
B. Counseling
C. Consultation
D. Delegated functions - CORRECT ANSWER -D. Delegated functions
___ communicates facts, ideas, and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs,
behaviors, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities.
A. Health teaching
B. Counseling
C. Consultation
D. Delegated functions - CORRECT ANSWER -A. Health teaching
___ establishes an interpersonal relationship with a community, a system, family, or individual
intended to increase or enhance their capacity for self-care and coping. It engages the
community, a system, family, or individual at an emotional level.
A. Health teaching
B. Counseling
,C. Consultation
D. Delegated functions - CORRECT ANSWER -B. Counseling
___ seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived problems or issues through
interactive problem solving with a community, system, family, or individual. The community,
system, family, or individual selects and acts on the option best meeting the circumstances.
A. Health teaching
B. Counseling
C. Consultation
D. Delegated functions - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Consultation
___ commits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal through enhancing
the capacity of one or more of the members to promote and protect health.
A. Consultation
B. Collaboration
C. Advocacy
D. Counseling - CORRECT ANSWER -B. Collaboration
___ promotes and develops alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common
purpose. It builds linkages, solves problems, and/or enhances local leadership to address health
concerns.
A. Collaboration
B. Community organizing
C. Coalition building
D. Policy development - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Coalition building
___ helps community groups to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and
develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they collectively have set.
A. Coalition building
B. Social marketing
, C. Policy development
D. Community organizing - CORRECT ANSWER -D. Community organizing
___ pleads someone's cause or act on someone's behalf, with a focus on developing the
community, system, individual, or family's capacity to plead their own cause or act on their own
behalf.
A. Consultation
B. Community organizing
C. Advocacy
D. Policy enforcement - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Advocacy
___ utilizes commercial marketing principles and technologies for programs designed to
influence the knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of the population of
interest.
A. Social marketing
B. Policy development
C. Coalition building
D. Policy enforcement - CORRECT ANSWER -A. Social marketing
___ places health issues on decision makers' agendas, acquires a plan of resolution, determines
resources needed, and results in laws, rules and regulations, ordinances, and policies.
A. Collaboration
B. Coalition building
C. Policy development
D. Social marketing - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Policy development
___ compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and policies created
in conjunction with policy development.
A. Policy development
B. Coalition building