POLITICS OF HEALTH EXAM 1- MULTIPLE CHOICE
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is the main goal of OSU's "15 to Finish" initiative?
Answer:
Encouraging students to take 15 credit hours each semester
Question:
2. By the early 1960s, what was the leading cause of death among Americans?
Answer:
Coronary artery disease
Question:
3. What was the result of the 1994 Congressional hearings on smoking?
Answer:
The CEOs of all major tobacco companies testified they did not believe smoking was addictive.
Question:
4. How did Ancel Keys select the countries to be included in this famous prospective cohort study that
became known as the Seven Countries Study?
Answer:
He cherrypicked the countries he expected to produce the results he wanted
Question:
5. Why did the American Academy of Pediatrics shift their position on school reopening -- from in favor to
opposition -- between June and July of 2020?
Answer:
President Trump tweeted his vocal support for school reopening.
Question:
6. What prompted the end of cigarette television and radio advertisements in 1969?
Answer:
The industry decided to voluntarily and collectively stop advertising, a move that saved it considerable
money.
Question:
7. What alternative explanation did statistician R.A. Fisher offer to explain the apparent correlation
between smoking and cancer?
Answer:
Fisher made all of the above arguments to explain the correlation between smoking and lung cancer rates
Question:
8. What is Ancel Keys known for?
, Answer:
All of the above
Question:
9. Which of the following policies is currently in place and discourages the importation of foreign-made
baby formula, to the benefit of domestic manufacturers?
Answer:
All of the above
Question:
10. What happened as a result of the experiment in which beagles had smoke mechanically pumped
through incisions into their throats?
Answer:
The leading medical journals rejected the study, and reviewers did not believe it showed that smoking
caused cancer.
Question:
11. Why was statistician Joseph Berkson skeptical of observational (rather than RCT) evidence linking
smoking and lung cancer?
Answer:
All of the above
Question:
12. Why did Bill Clinton come out in support of stronger anti-smoking regulations?
Answer:
His own polling showed that such regulation was popular, as long as it focused on kids rather than adults.
Question:
13. What is the key insight from the "bootleggers and Baptists" analogy?
Answer:
Special interest groups often use government regulation to shield themselves from market competition.
Question:
14. Which of the following is not one of the Bradford Hill criteria for establishing causality in
epidemiological research?
Answer:
Is the research free of financial conflict of interest?
Question:
15. How did the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group focused on nutrition,
respond when early research raised questions about the safety of trans fats in the 1980s?
Answer:
CSPI raised doubts about the evidence...
Question:
16. What is a type of bias that can cause case-control studies to falsely conclude that a particular risk factor
causes a disease?
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is the main goal of OSU's "15 to Finish" initiative?
Answer:
Encouraging students to take 15 credit hours each semester
Question:
2. By the early 1960s, what was the leading cause of death among Americans?
Answer:
Coronary artery disease
Question:
3. What was the result of the 1994 Congressional hearings on smoking?
Answer:
The CEOs of all major tobacco companies testified they did not believe smoking was addictive.
Question:
4. How did Ancel Keys select the countries to be included in this famous prospective cohort study that
became known as the Seven Countries Study?
Answer:
He cherrypicked the countries he expected to produce the results he wanted
Question:
5. Why did the American Academy of Pediatrics shift their position on school reopening -- from in favor to
opposition -- between June and July of 2020?
Answer:
President Trump tweeted his vocal support for school reopening.
Question:
6. What prompted the end of cigarette television and radio advertisements in 1969?
Answer:
The industry decided to voluntarily and collectively stop advertising, a move that saved it considerable
money.
Question:
7. What alternative explanation did statistician R.A. Fisher offer to explain the apparent correlation
between smoking and cancer?
Answer:
Fisher made all of the above arguments to explain the correlation between smoking and lung cancer rates
Question:
8. What is Ancel Keys known for?
, Answer:
All of the above
Question:
9. Which of the following policies is currently in place and discourages the importation of foreign-made
baby formula, to the benefit of domestic manufacturers?
Answer:
All of the above
Question:
10. What happened as a result of the experiment in which beagles had smoke mechanically pumped
through incisions into their throats?
Answer:
The leading medical journals rejected the study, and reviewers did not believe it showed that smoking
caused cancer.
Question:
11. Why was statistician Joseph Berkson skeptical of observational (rather than RCT) evidence linking
smoking and lung cancer?
Answer:
All of the above
Question:
12. Why did Bill Clinton come out in support of stronger anti-smoking regulations?
Answer:
His own polling showed that such regulation was popular, as long as it focused on kids rather than adults.
Question:
13. What is the key insight from the "bootleggers and Baptists" analogy?
Answer:
Special interest groups often use government regulation to shield themselves from market competition.
Question:
14. Which of the following is not one of the Bradford Hill criteria for establishing causality in
epidemiological research?
Answer:
Is the research free of financial conflict of interest?
Question:
15. How did the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group focused on nutrition,
respond when early research raised questions about the safety of trans fats in the 1980s?
Answer:
CSPI raised doubts about the evidence...
Question:
16. What is a type of bias that can cause case-control studies to falsely conclude that a particular risk factor
causes a disease?
