FNDH 600 Public Health Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Version 2025-2026
Life Expectancy in the USA has increased since 1900 by about 25 years due to advances in drug and
medical care - Answers False
The CDC and WHO work to improve population health entirely by making sure that each person in the
population takes personal responsibility for their own health - Answers False
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services,
has more than 21,000 employees working in 50 countries, and a total budget of about $15.4 billion.
They work 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the US. -
Answers Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The 3 major functions or core functions of public health incluse - Answers Assurance
policy development
Assessment
The level of prevention that involves preventing complications of diseases is called - Answers Tertiary
Prevention
According to Dr. Greg Martin, public health is the discipline that addresses health at ___ level - Answers
a population
Which of these is something a public health professional is LEAST LIKELY TO DO in their profession? -
Answers Refuse to help people who fail to get vaccinated
If recent trends continue with US demographics - Answers The share of white population is expected to
decline to less than half of all Americans after 2045
From the very beginning in 1948, WHO's top priorities inclided - Answers -Nutrition
-Malaria and environmental sanitation
-Women's health and venereal disease
-Children's Health
According to Warin (2018), "...these dominant discourses about an individual 's ignorance and the
marked differences in food provision, types of health education and information, suggested that
people's knowledge about healthy eating was less sophisticated in one locale, and they need to be
educated with basic information and cooking lessons to help them change their 'ill-informed' eating
behaviours."
In this statement, the author is mainly highlighting perceived differences between: - Answers Higher and
lower socio-economic areas
, According to Warin (2018), there is very strong evidence that interventions that try to change people's
behaviors in isolation have limited efficacy and cost-effectiveness - Answers True
Warin (2018) clearly saw obesity as a problem of an individual lacking education and knowledge -
Answers False
Warin (2018) ethnographic fieldwork included all of the following except: - Answers Having participants
keep a food log
During the 20th century, population-wide vaccinations resulted in the eradication of - Answers Polio and
smallpox
Epidemiology - Answers The study of the distribution and determinants of disease or health status in a
population
Health education - Answers Programs designed with a community to help it know about health risks and
how to reduce these risks
health promotion - Answers The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its
determinants, and thereby improve their health
Prevention - Answers Actions that reduce exposure or other risks, keep people from getting sick, or keep
disease from getting worse
Public Health Surveillance - Answers The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of
health data
Environmental Health - Answers The protection from hazards in the environment
The World bank has set "poverty threshold" as $1.90/day (at purchasing-power parity) in the developing
world. - Answers True
As the world's leading health problem, poverty is associated with - Answers -Inferior Health Care
-Lower life expectancy among adults
-Unsafe water and sanitation
-High infant mortality and childhood deaths
Poverty causes hunger but hunger is not considered to be a reciprocal cause of poverty - Answers False
According to the course slides/notes, which of these statements is not factually accurate? - Answers
More than 1 out of 4 people in the world defecate in the open
From 1820 to the 1990's, the percentage of the world's population living in extreme poverty dropped
from 854% to 24% - Answers True
Life Expectancy in the USA has increased since 1900 by about 25 years due to advances in drug and
medical care - Answers False
The CDC and WHO work to improve population health entirely by making sure that each person in the
population takes personal responsibility for their own health - Answers False
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services,
has more than 21,000 employees working in 50 countries, and a total budget of about $15.4 billion.
They work 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the US. -
Answers Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The 3 major functions or core functions of public health incluse - Answers Assurance
policy development
Assessment
The level of prevention that involves preventing complications of diseases is called - Answers Tertiary
Prevention
According to Dr. Greg Martin, public health is the discipline that addresses health at ___ level - Answers
a population
Which of these is something a public health professional is LEAST LIKELY TO DO in their profession? -
Answers Refuse to help people who fail to get vaccinated
If recent trends continue with US demographics - Answers The share of white population is expected to
decline to less than half of all Americans after 2045
From the very beginning in 1948, WHO's top priorities inclided - Answers -Nutrition
-Malaria and environmental sanitation
-Women's health and venereal disease
-Children's Health
According to Warin (2018), "...these dominant discourses about an individual 's ignorance and the
marked differences in food provision, types of health education and information, suggested that
people's knowledge about healthy eating was less sophisticated in one locale, and they need to be
educated with basic information and cooking lessons to help them change their 'ill-informed' eating
behaviours."
In this statement, the author is mainly highlighting perceived differences between: - Answers Higher and
lower socio-economic areas
, According to Warin (2018), there is very strong evidence that interventions that try to change people's
behaviors in isolation have limited efficacy and cost-effectiveness - Answers True
Warin (2018) clearly saw obesity as a problem of an individual lacking education and knowledge -
Answers False
Warin (2018) ethnographic fieldwork included all of the following except: - Answers Having participants
keep a food log
During the 20th century, population-wide vaccinations resulted in the eradication of - Answers Polio and
smallpox
Epidemiology - Answers The study of the distribution and determinants of disease or health status in a
population
Health education - Answers Programs designed with a community to help it know about health risks and
how to reduce these risks
health promotion - Answers The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its
determinants, and thereby improve their health
Prevention - Answers Actions that reduce exposure or other risks, keep people from getting sick, or keep
disease from getting worse
Public Health Surveillance - Answers The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of
health data
Environmental Health - Answers The protection from hazards in the environment
The World bank has set "poverty threshold" as $1.90/day (at purchasing-power parity) in the developing
world. - Answers True
As the world's leading health problem, poverty is associated with - Answers -Inferior Health Care
-Lower life expectancy among adults
-Unsafe water and sanitation
-High infant mortality and childhood deaths
Poverty causes hunger but hunger is not considered to be a reciprocal cause of poverty - Answers False
According to the course slides/notes, which of these statements is not factually accurate? - Answers
More than 1 out of 4 people in the world defecate in the open
From 1820 to the 1990's, the percentage of the world's population living in extreme poverty dropped
from 854% to 24% - Answers True
