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Public Health professionals have to learn to work effectively with the
media. Public health is potentially appealing for the popular press
because:
1. its stories have urgency, drama and novelty.
2. it is a source rich in detail, facts and figures.
3. scientists and journalists have a long history of mutual trust.
4. public information officers issue press releases.
Ans: its stories have urgency, drama and novelty
in the design and implementation of public health data systems,
installing security features should be:
1. inherent in privacy by design at all stages.
2. a task separately done by an expert cybersecurity team.
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3. limited to firewalls and administrative control.
4. the final step before release of software systems.
Ans: inherent in privacy by design at all stages
When beginning work with a coalition of community groups to
improve health outcomes in the community, a key first step would
be to:
1. Develop a shared vision
2. Develop an evaluation plan
3. Develop a data collection plan
4. Develop a logic model
Ans: Develop a shared vision
If two copies of a mutant allele are necessary to cause symptoms of
a disease to appear in the phenotype, what type of genetic disease
is this?
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1. Recessive
2. Sex-linked
3. Autosomal
4. Dominant
Ans: Recessive
River water pollution due to stormwater runoff from chemically
fertilized farm fields is an example of:
1. Non-point source pollution
2. Point source pollution
3. Accidental and unforeseeable pollution
4. Unpreventable and inconsequential pollution
Ans: non-point source pollution
Count data, such as the number of events occurring in a specified
period of time, are often described by which probability distribution?
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1. Binomial
2. Chi-square
3. Normal
4. Poisson
Ans: Poisson
is often used to describe count data and can be used to describe
rate data by including an offset term for the denominator of the rate
Ans: Poisson Distribution
the probability distribution for the number of successes in a
sequence of Bernoulli trials, which are a series of trials where each
trial can either succeed or fail, the trials are independent, and the
probability of success is the same for each trial.
Ans: binomial distribution
CPH Exam Practice Questions Questions
and Correct Answers/ Latest Update /
Already Graded
Public Health professionals have to learn to work effectively with the
media. Public health is potentially appealing for the popular press
because:
1. its stories have urgency, drama and novelty.
2. it is a source rich in detail, facts and figures.
3. scientists and journalists have a long history of mutual trust.
4. public information officers issue press releases.
Ans: its stories have urgency, drama and novelty
in the design and implementation of public health data systems,
installing security features should be:
1. inherent in privacy by design at all stages.
2. a task separately done by an expert cybersecurity team.
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3. limited to firewalls and administrative control.
4. the final step before release of software systems.
Ans: inherent in privacy by design at all stages
When beginning work with a coalition of community groups to
improve health outcomes in the community, a key first step would
be to:
1. Develop a shared vision
2. Develop an evaluation plan
3. Develop a data collection plan
4. Develop a logic model
Ans: Develop a shared vision
If two copies of a mutant allele are necessary to cause symptoms of
a disease to appear in the phenotype, what type of genetic disease
is this?
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1. Recessive
2. Sex-linked
3. Autosomal
4. Dominant
Ans: Recessive
River water pollution due to stormwater runoff from chemically
fertilized farm fields is an example of:
1. Non-point source pollution
2. Point source pollution
3. Accidental and unforeseeable pollution
4. Unpreventable and inconsequential pollution
Ans: non-point source pollution
Count data, such as the number of events occurring in a specified
period of time, are often described by which probability distribution?
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1. Binomial
2. Chi-square
3. Normal
4. Poisson
Ans: Poisson
is often used to describe count data and can be used to describe
rate data by including an offset term for the denominator of the rate
Ans: Poisson Distribution
the probability distribution for the number of successes in a
sequence of Bernoulli trials, which are a series of trials where each
trial can either succeed or fail, the trials are independent, and the
probability of success is the same for each trial.
Ans: binomial distribution
