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To be effective in injury prevention, professionals should be highly competent in all of
the Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention. CORRECT ANSWERS
false
Which of the following is NOT a necessary ability to demonstrate competency inan
injury- or violence prevention topic (Competency 9)? CORRECT ANSWERS Identify
sources of funding for programming to prevent the injury.
Describe the causes and characteristics underlying the injury.
Describe what populations are most at risk of the injury.
Identify primary stakeholders for programming preventing the injury.
Identify sources of funding for programming to prevent the injury.
Knowing how to use a Haddon Matrix is relevant to which of the
Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention? CORRECT ANSWERS Ability
to build and manage an injury and/or violence prevention program.
Ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities.
Ability to stimulate change related to injury and/or violence prevention through policy,
enforcement, advocacy and education.
Ability to describe and explain injury and/or violence as a major social and health
problem.
Ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities.
Which best describes the rationale behind the development of the core competencies?
CORRECT ANSWERS Reduce injury by strengthening the workforce with more
systematic training in skills relevant to injury prevention
Which of the Three E's does Safe Kids Worldwide programming primarily use to prevent
injury? CORRECT ANSWERS Education
Enforcement
Engineering
Environment
Education
Which workforce is the primary audience for the Core Competencies for Injury and
Violence Prevention? CORRECT ANSWERS Public health practitioners
Health Educators
,Violence prevention specialists
Injury Prevention Program Coordinators
Public health practitioners
State health departments are typically forbidden from performing advocacy for policy
and laws in state legislative bodies. CORRECT ANSWERS true
Injury prevention programs at trauma centers must be carried out by prevention
coordinators whose only job duty is running the prevention program. CORRECT
ANSWERS false
State health departments provide most of the direct services of injury prevention
programming in communities. CORRECT ANSWERS false
What did Sandy Strack Arabian identify as an asset that hospital trauma centers have
for injury prevention that public health departments often lack? CORRECT ANSWERS
More fiscal support (funding) for injury prevention programming.
A receptive audience to prevention education in the immediate aftermath of an injury
Staff trained in the public health approach to injury prevention
Better sources of data on injury in a community.
A receptive audience to prevention education in the immediate aftermath of an injury
Staff working in injury prevention can complement each other with skills in different core
competencies to effectively prevent injury. CORRECT ANSWERS true
What does procurement mean in state health department injury prevention practice?
CORRECT ANSWERS The process of collecting data on injuries in a state.
The process of informing the public about health regulations
You Answered The process of buying resources for direct services
The process of deciding who gets funding to do injury prevention programming on a
local level
The process of deciding who gets funding to do injury prevention programming on a
local level
What personal quality does Bekah Thomas recommend for people who want to work in
injury prevention state health departments? CORRECT ANSWERS Patience
Analytic skills
Leadership
Organizational skills
Patience
, Competency in some of the areas of the core competencies can be achieved by work
experience as well as by formal training. CORRECT ANSWERS true
Familiarity with ICD codes is most relevant to achieving which of the Core
Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention? CORRECT ANSWERS Ability to
access, interpret, use and present injury and/or violence data.
Ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities.
Ability to stimulate change related to injury and/or violence prevention through policy,
enforcement, advocacy and education.
Ability to disseminate information related to injury and/or violence prevention to the
community, other professionals, key policy makers and leaders through diverse
communication networks.
Ability to access, interpret, use and present injury and/or violence data.
Why would countries with younger populations have higher YPLLs due to injury
compared to countries with older populations? CORRECT ANSWERS Younger people
are more likely to be disabled than to die from their injuries, thus increasing the burden
of injury in younger populations.
Countries with younger populations tend to be poorer and have more injuries from
motor vehicles.
Since YLL's measures years of life lost and young people have more years of life
anticipated, the total number of YLLs will be higher in populations where it more likely to
be younger people who die from injuries.
Older people are more likely to die from their injuries than younger people.
Since YLL's measures years of life lost and young people have more years of life
anticipated, the total number of YLLs will be higher in populations where it more likely to
be younger people who die from injuries.
Drowning data worldwide is highly accurate and routinely collected. CORRECT
ANSWERS false
The drowning prevention intervention in areas surrounding Lake Victoria best
represents which Haddon Countermeasure? CORRECT ANSWERS To separate in
space or time the energy being released from the susceptible structure
To move rapidly in detection and evaluation of damage and to counter its continuation
and extension
To strengthen the structure which might be damaged by the energy transfer
To prevent the initial marshalling of the form of energy
To separate in space or time the energy being released from the susceptible structure
Three times more people due from homicide than from war-related injury globally.
CORRECT ANSWERS false
correct answers already passed!!!
2025|2026
To be effective in injury prevention, professionals should be highly competent in all of
the Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention. CORRECT ANSWERS
false
Which of the following is NOT a necessary ability to demonstrate competency inan
injury- or violence prevention topic (Competency 9)? CORRECT ANSWERS Identify
sources of funding for programming to prevent the injury.
Describe the causes and characteristics underlying the injury.
Describe what populations are most at risk of the injury.
Identify primary stakeholders for programming preventing the injury.
Identify sources of funding for programming to prevent the injury.
Knowing how to use a Haddon Matrix is relevant to which of the
Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention? CORRECT ANSWERS Ability
to build and manage an injury and/or violence prevention program.
Ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities.
Ability to stimulate change related to injury and/or violence prevention through policy,
enforcement, advocacy and education.
Ability to describe and explain injury and/or violence as a major social and health
problem.
Ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities.
Which best describes the rationale behind the development of the core competencies?
CORRECT ANSWERS Reduce injury by strengthening the workforce with more
systematic training in skills relevant to injury prevention
Which of the Three E's does Safe Kids Worldwide programming primarily use to prevent
injury? CORRECT ANSWERS Education
Enforcement
Engineering
Environment
Education
Which workforce is the primary audience for the Core Competencies for Injury and
Violence Prevention? CORRECT ANSWERS Public health practitioners
Health Educators
,Violence prevention specialists
Injury Prevention Program Coordinators
Public health practitioners
State health departments are typically forbidden from performing advocacy for policy
and laws in state legislative bodies. CORRECT ANSWERS true
Injury prevention programs at trauma centers must be carried out by prevention
coordinators whose only job duty is running the prevention program. CORRECT
ANSWERS false
State health departments provide most of the direct services of injury prevention
programming in communities. CORRECT ANSWERS false
What did Sandy Strack Arabian identify as an asset that hospital trauma centers have
for injury prevention that public health departments often lack? CORRECT ANSWERS
More fiscal support (funding) for injury prevention programming.
A receptive audience to prevention education in the immediate aftermath of an injury
Staff trained in the public health approach to injury prevention
Better sources of data on injury in a community.
A receptive audience to prevention education in the immediate aftermath of an injury
Staff working in injury prevention can complement each other with skills in different core
competencies to effectively prevent injury. CORRECT ANSWERS true
What does procurement mean in state health department injury prevention practice?
CORRECT ANSWERS The process of collecting data on injuries in a state.
The process of informing the public about health regulations
You Answered The process of buying resources for direct services
The process of deciding who gets funding to do injury prevention programming on a
local level
The process of deciding who gets funding to do injury prevention programming on a
local level
What personal quality does Bekah Thomas recommend for people who want to work in
injury prevention state health departments? CORRECT ANSWERS Patience
Analytic skills
Leadership
Organizational skills
Patience
, Competency in some of the areas of the core competencies can be achieved by work
experience as well as by formal training. CORRECT ANSWERS true
Familiarity with ICD codes is most relevant to achieving which of the Core
Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention? CORRECT ANSWERS Ability to
access, interpret, use and present injury and/or violence data.
Ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities.
Ability to stimulate change related to injury and/or violence prevention through policy,
enforcement, advocacy and education.
Ability to disseminate information related to injury and/or violence prevention to the
community, other professionals, key policy makers and leaders through diverse
communication networks.
Ability to access, interpret, use and present injury and/or violence data.
Why would countries with younger populations have higher YPLLs due to injury
compared to countries with older populations? CORRECT ANSWERS Younger people
are more likely to be disabled than to die from their injuries, thus increasing the burden
of injury in younger populations.
Countries with younger populations tend to be poorer and have more injuries from
motor vehicles.
Since YLL's measures years of life lost and young people have more years of life
anticipated, the total number of YLLs will be higher in populations where it more likely to
be younger people who die from injuries.
Older people are more likely to die from their injuries than younger people.
Since YLL's measures years of life lost and young people have more years of life
anticipated, the total number of YLLs will be higher in populations where it more likely to
be younger people who die from injuries.
Drowning data worldwide is highly accurate and routinely collected. CORRECT
ANSWERS false
The drowning prevention intervention in areas surrounding Lake Victoria best
represents which Haddon Countermeasure? CORRECT ANSWERS To separate in
space or time the energy being released from the susceptible structure
To move rapidly in detection and evaluation of damage and to counter its continuation
and extension
To strengthen the structure which might be damaged by the energy transfer
To prevent the initial marshalling of the form of energy
To separate in space or time the energy being released from the susceptible structure
Three times more people due from homicide than from war-related injury globally.
CORRECT ANSWERS false
