CPH Exam Questions and Answers
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priority population - ✔✔In the planning process, the group being served
needs assessment - ✔✔Assists to identify and prioritize health problems
Chi-square - ✔✔Involves categorical variables. Looks at 2 distributions of categorical
data to see if they differ from each other. (for proportions)
Two independent samples t-test - ✔✔Comparing two independent groups
2 sample dependent t-test - ✔✔Same sample of people compared twice
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) - ✔✔analysis of variance test used for designs with
three or more sample means
correlation analysis - ✔✔analysis of the degree to which changes in one variable are
associated with changes in another
SIP - ✔✔State Implementation Plan (SIP) approved by the EPA, standards for ambient
air quality and requires States to participate in the implementation by developing a plan
that meets Federal requirements
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,Cryptosporidium parvum - ✔✔a water-borne, fecal-oral cycle pathogen that can cause
severe diarrhea lasting for 1 - 2 weeks, headache, muscle pain, severe fluid and weight
loss. The Apicomplexa have well developed sexual cycles and a structure (the Apical
Complex) that helps them to attach to host cells.
Flavivirus - ✔✔genus of viruses that includes mosquito-transmitted diseases such as
Yellow Fever that are classified as water-related because part of disease's vector's
lifestyle occurs in water
Plasmodium spp. - ✔✔family of parasites that causes malaria, which, like flavivirus, is
water-related
Borrelia burgdorferi - ✔✔bacterial species that causes Lyme disease, the vector for
which is the deer tick
Vital statistics - ✔✔The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerning
birth, marriage, divorce, sickness, and death.
DDT pesticide - ✔✔Causes "SILENT SPRING" (bird eggshell cracking) - EFFECTIVE vs.
mosquitoes
core functions of public health - ✔✔1. Assessment
2. Policy Development
3. Assurance
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,10 essential public health services - ✔✔1. Monitor health status to identify and solve
community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health
care when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Improve and innovate public health functions through ongoing evaluation, research,
and continuous quality improvement
10. Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health
HACCP - ✔✔food safety system employed to Identify and control problems that may
cause foodborne illness before they happen
epidemiologic triangle - ✔✔describes the occurrence of disease as an interaction
between Host, agent and environment
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, Power - ✔✔ability to reject the null hypothesis when the null is in fact false
Type I error (alpha) - ✔✔reject null when it was true (probability of this error is alpha)
type 2 error - ✔✔fail to reject null when false (probability of this error is beta)
level of significance - ✔✔alpha or α, is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis
when it is true
cultural competence - ✔✔meet the social, cultural and linguistic needs of individuals
within the community
cultural awareness - ✔✔Knowledge of various cultural beliefs and values
Succession Planning - ✔✔cultivate a new group of leaders
incremental program budgeting - ✔✔a budget prepared using a previous period's
budget or actual performance as a basis with incremental amounts added for the new
budget period
zero-based budgeting - ✔✔all expenses must be justified for each new period, starts
from a "zero base," and every function within an organization is analyzed for its needs
and costs
Process evaluation - ✔✔how the program is delivered. It deals with issues such as when
program activities occur, where they occur, and who delivers them and how many
people participate in those activities.
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priority population - ✔✔In the planning process, the group being served
needs assessment - ✔✔Assists to identify and prioritize health problems
Chi-square - ✔✔Involves categorical variables. Looks at 2 distributions of categorical
data to see if they differ from each other. (for proportions)
Two independent samples t-test - ✔✔Comparing two independent groups
2 sample dependent t-test - ✔✔Same sample of people compared twice
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) - ✔✔analysis of variance test used for designs with
three or more sample means
correlation analysis - ✔✔analysis of the degree to which changes in one variable are
associated with changes in another
SIP - ✔✔State Implementation Plan (SIP) approved by the EPA, standards for ambient
air quality and requires States to participate in the implementation by developing a plan
that meets Federal requirements
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,Cryptosporidium parvum - ✔✔a water-borne, fecal-oral cycle pathogen that can cause
severe diarrhea lasting for 1 - 2 weeks, headache, muscle pain, severe fluid and weight
loss. The Apicomplexa have well developed sexual cycles and a structure (the Apical
Complex) that helps them to attach to host cells.
Flavivirus - ✔✔genus of viruses that includes mosquito-transmitted diseases such as
Yellow Fever that are classified as water-related because part of disease's vector's
lifestyle occurs in water
Plasmodium spp. - ✔✔family of parasites that causes malaria, which, like flavivirus, is
water-related
Borrelia burgdorferi - ✔✔bacterial species that causes Lyme disease, the vector for
which is the deer tick
Vital statistics - ✔✔The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerning
birth, marriage, divorce, sickness, and death.
DDT pesticide - ✔✔Causes "SILENT SPRING" (bird eggshell cracking) - EFFECTIVE vs.
mosquitoes
core functions of public health - ✔✔1. Assessment
2. Policy Development
3. Assurance
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,10 essential public health services - ✔✔1. Monitor health status to identify and solve
community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health
care when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Improve and innovate public health functions through ongoing evaluation, research,
and continuous quality improvement
10. Build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health
HACCP - ✔✔food safety system employed to Identify and control problems that may
cause foodborne illness before they happen
epidemiologic triangle - ✔✔describes the occurrence of disease as an interaction
between Host, agent and environment
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, Power - ✔✔ability to reject the null hypothesis when the null is in fact false
Type I error (alpha) - ✔✔reject null when it was true (probability of this error is alpha)
type 2 error - ✔✔fail to reject null when false (probability of this error is beta)
level of significance - ✔✔alpha or α, is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis
when it is true
cultural competence - ✔✔meet the social, cultural and linguistic needs of individuals
within the community
cultural awareness - ✔✔Knowledge of various cultural beliefs and values
Succession Planning - ✔✔cultivate a new group of leaders
incremental program budgeting - ✔✔a budget prepared using a previous period's
budget or actual performance as a basis with incremental amounts added for the new
budget period
zero-based budgeting - ✔✔all expenses must be justified for each new period, starts
from a "zero base," and every function within an organization is analyzed for its needs
and costs
Process evaluation - ✔✔how the program is delivered. It deals with issues such as when
program activities occur, where they occur, and who delivers them and how many
people participate in those activities.
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