PUBH 1001: EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. health communications
Answer:
the ways we distribute and perceive information for decision making
Question:
2. health informatics
Answer:
the methods of collecting, compiling, and presenting data
Question:
3. statistics
Answer:
birth, death, marriage, divorce, reporting of key communicable and specially-selected noncommunicable
diseases (e.g. elevated lead levels, child and spouse abuse, etc.)
Question:
4. surveys-sampling
Answer:
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES); Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS)
Question:
5. adverse event reporting
Answer:
post marketing assessment of drugs and vaccines, efficacy and effectiveness
Question:
6. sentinel monitoring
Answer:
early warnings or warning of previously unrecognized events
Question:
7. syndromic surveillance
Answer:
use of symptom patterns (e.g., headaches, cough/fever or GI symptoms, plus increased sales of
over-the-counter drugs) to raise alert of possible new or increased disease
Question:
8. national vital statistics reports
Answer:
provisional counts of births, deaths, marriages and divorces
, Question:
9. national hospital discharge survey
Answer:
use of short-stay hospitals, diagnosis, length of stay, discharge status
Question:
10. national ambulatory medical care survey
Answer:
physician-patient encounters, signs/symptoms, procedures, diagnoses
Question:
11. national nursing home survey
Answer:
utilization of skilled facilities, diagnosis, dispositio
Question:
12. health interview survey
Answer:
Household demographics, health reports, resource utilization
Question:
13. national health and nutrition examination survey (n-hanes)
Answer:
physical/physiological measurements, disease prevalence, nutrition
Question:
14. gain framing
Answer:
works to encourage "safe" preventative behaviors
Question:
15. loss framing
Answer:
works to encourage "risky" illness detection behaviors
Question:
16. optimism bias
Answer:
letting 'personal' information trump 'public' knowledge
Question:
17. contextual bias
Answer:
altering decisions according to time, place, person, setting
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. health communications
Answer:
the ways we distribute and perceive information for decision making
Question:
2. health informatics
Answer:
the methods of collecting, compiling, and presenting data
Question:
3. statistics
Answer:
birth, death, marriage, divorce, reporting of key communicable and specially-selected noncommunicable
diseases (e.g. elevated lead levels, child and spouse abuse, etc.)
Question:
4. surveys-sampling
Answer:
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES); Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS)
Question:
5. adverse event reporting
Answer:
post marketing assessment of drugs and vaccines, efficacy and effectiveness
Question:
6. sentinel monitoring
Answer:
early warnings or warning of previously unrecognized events
Question:
7. syndromic surveillance
Answer:
use of symptom patterns (e.g., headaches, cough/fever or GI symptoms, plus increased sales of
over-the-counter drugs) to raise alert of possible new or increased disease
Question:
8. national vital statistics reports
Answer:
provisional counts of births, deaths, marriages and divorces
, Question:
9. national hospital discharge survey
Answer:
use of short-stay hospitals, diagnosis, length of stay, discharge status
Question:
10. national ambulatory medical care survey
Answer:
physician-patient encounters, signs/symptoms, procedures, diagnoses
Question:
11. national nursing home survey
Answer:
utilization of skilled facilities, diagnosis, dispositio
Question:
12. health interview survey
Answer:
Household demographics, health reports, resource utilization
Question:
13. national health and nutrition examination survey (n-hanes)
Answer:
physical/physiological measurements, disease prevalence, nutrition
Question:
14. gain framing
Answer:
works to encourage "safe" preventative behaviors
Question:
15. loss framing
Answer:
works to encourage "risky" illness detection behaviors
Question:
16. optimism bias
Answer:
letting 'personal' information trump 'public' knowledge
Question:
17. contextual bias
Answer:
altering decisions according to time, place, person, setting
