Public Health 201 Final Exam
Gastroenteritis Case Study - correct answer ✔✔Gastroenteritis was a case study developed for students
who are interested in learning and practicing specific skills in outbreak investigation. Students learn the
basic knowledge of Public Health and Epidemiologic concepts (including descriptive Epidemiology, study
design and data analysis.
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Activities that are intended to prevent the onset of a disease or
injury. Analysts seek to understand the conditions prevailing before the event, who initiates the event or
suffers the injury, the agent (automobile, firearm, swimming pool), and the environment (weather, road
conditions).
Ex: Alcohol Intoxication
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Activities intended to minimize the risk of progression of or
complications from a disease or to minimize damage from an injury.
(Conditions prevailing during the event that affect the outcome of the crash.)
Ex: Wearing a seat belt (host), equipping a car with an airbag (agent), and driving on a dividing highway
(environment).
Tertiary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Activities intended to minimize disability caused by a disease or
injury. Rehabilitation is one tertiary prevention activity.
(Conditions after the crash that determine whether the victim survives the injury and the extent of any
resulting disability.
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - correct answer ✔✔The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's mission is to provide
leadership in preventing and controlling injuries, i.e., reducing the incidence, severity, and adverse
outcomes of injury. National highway safety programs were launched two decades before Congress
identified injury as a general public health problem and established the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD): - correct answer ✔✔A nonprofit organization in the United
States and Canada that seeks to stop drunk driving, support those affected by drunk driving, and to
prevent underage drinking.
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA): - correct answer ✔✔An agency of the executive branch
of the U.S government. Congress passed the National Traffic Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, and it
empowered it to set safety standards for new cars, such as installation of seat belts, laminated
windshields, collapsible steering assemblies, dashboard padding.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): - correct answer ✔✔Congress created the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to assure safe and healthful working conditions
for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach,
education and assistance.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - correct answer ✔✔The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting
research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.
Consumer Product Safety Commission - correct answer ✔✔Consumer Product Safety Commission is a
U.S. government agency that protects the American public from products that may create a potential
hazard to safety. CPSC administers surveillance systems that collects data from a nationally
representative sample of hospital emergency rooms.
The Three E's of Injury Prevention - correct answer ✔✔1) Education
2) Enforcement
3) Engineering
Motor Vehicle Injuries: - correct answer ✔✔Motorcycle injuries are the second leading cause of injury
death, 34,000 deaths a year.
- Alcohol plays a major role in fatal crashes
- Second leading factor - youth and inexperience, zero tolerance for blood alcohol
Occupational Injuries: - correct answer ✔✔- Motor vehicles are the leading occupational cause of death,
with highway crashes accounting for 24 percent of all worker deaths.
Gastroenteritis Case Study - correct answer ✔✔Gastroenteritis was a case study developed for students
who are interested in learning and practicing specific skills in outbreak investigation. Students learn the
basic knowledge of Public Health and Epidemiologic concepts (including descriptive Epidemiology, study
design and data analysis.
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Activities that are intended to prevent the onset of a disease or
injury. Analysts seek to understand the conditions prevailing before the event, who initiates the event or
suffers the injury, the agent (automobile, firearm, swimming pool), and the environment (weather, road
conditions).
Ex: Alcohol Intoxication
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Activities intended to minimize the risk of progression of or
complications from a disease or to minimize damage from an injury.
(Conditions prevailing during the event that affect the outcome of the crash.)
Ex: Wearing a seat belt (host), equipping a car with an airbag (agent), and driving on a dividing highway
(environment).
Tertiary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Activities intended to minimize disability caused by a disease or
injury. Rehabilitation is one tertiary prevention activity.
(Conditions after the crash that determine whether the victim survives the injury and the extent of any
resulting disability.
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - correct answer ✔✔The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's mission is to provide
leadership in preventing and controlling injuries, i.e., reducing the incidence, severity, and adverse
outcomes of injury. National highway safety programs were launched two decades before Congress
identified injury as a general public health problem and established the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD): - correct answer ✔✔A nonprofit organization in the United
States and Canada that seeks to stop drunk driving, support those affected by drunk driving, and to
prevent underage drinking.
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA): - correct answer ✔✔An agency of the executive branch
of the U.S government. Congress passed the National Traffic Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, and it
empowered it to set safety standards for new cars, such as installation of seat belts, laminated
windshields, collapsible steering assemblies, dashboard padding.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): - correct answer ✔✔Congress created the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to assure safe and healthful working conditions
for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach,
education and assistance.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - correct answer ✔✔The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting
research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.
Consumer Product Safety Commission - correct answer ✔✔Consumer Product Safety Commission is a
U.S. government agency that protects the American public from products that may create a potential
hazard to safety. CPSC administers surveillance systems that collects data from a nationally
representative sample of hospital emergency rooms.
The Three E's of Injury Prevention - correct answer ✔✔1) Education
2) Enforcement
3) Engineering
Motor Vehicle Injuries: - correct answer ✔✔Motorcycle injuries are the second leading cause of injury
death, 34,000 deaths a year.
- Alcohol plays a major role in fatal crashes
- Second leading factor - youth and inexperience, zero tolerance for blood alcohol
Occupational Injuries: - correct answer ✔✔- Motor vehicles are the leading occupational cause of death,
with highway crashes accounting for 24 percent of all worker deaths.
