WGU D583 FOUNDATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SECTION 1 LESSON 3 CORE FUNCTION UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What are the 3 core functions of public health?
Answer:
1. Assessment
2. Policy development
3. Assurance
Question:
2. What is public health?
Answer:
the totality of all evidence-based public and private efforts throughout the life cycle that preserve and
promote health and prevent disease, disability, and death
Question:
3. What are the goals of public health?
Answer:
To prevent epidemics and the spread of disease To protect against environmental hazards To prevent
injuries To promote and encourage healthy behaviors To respond to disasters and assist communities
in recovery To ensure the quality and accessibility of health services
Question:
4. What is an NGO?
Answer:
Non-governmental organization
Question:
5. What is assess-ment?
Answer:
core public health function that includes obtaining data that defines the health of the overall
population and specific groups within the population, including defining the nature of new and
persisting health problems.
Question:
6. What is policy de-velopment?
Answer:
core public health function that includes developing evidence-based recommen-dations and other
analyses of options, such as health policy analysis, to guide im-plementation, including efforts to
educate and mobilize community partnerships
Question:
7. What is assur-ance?
, Answer:
core public health function that includes includes governmental public health's oversight
responsibility for ensuring that key components of an effective health system, including health care
and public health, are in place even though the implementation will often be performed by others.
Question:
8. What organiza-tion defined the 3 core functions of public health?
Answer:
The National Academy of Medicine
Question:
9. What organiza-tion defined the 10 essential pub-lic health ser-vices?
Answer:
Public Health in America
Question:
10. What do the 10 essential pub-lic health services provide?
Answer:
a mechanism for evaluating whether the core functions of public health are fulfilled
Question:
11. Which of the 10 essential pub-lic health services are tied to the core function of assessment?
Answer:
1. Monitoring health status to identify and solve community health problems
2. Diagnosing and investigating health problems and health hazards in the com-
munity
Question:
12. How should "monitoring health status to identify and solve community health problems" be
fulfilled?
Answer:
1. by identifying an accurate diagnosis of the community's health status
2. identification of threats to health and assessment of health service needs
3. timely collection, analysis, and publication of information on access, utilization,
costs, and outcomes of personal health services
4. attention to the vital statistics and health status of specific groups that are at a
higher risk than the total population
5. collaboration to manage integrated information systems with private providers
and health benefit plans.
Question:
13. What are exam-ples of "monitor-ing health status to identify and solve communi-ty health
prob-lems"?
Answer:
1. Vital statistics
Health surveys
2. Surveillance, including reportable diseases
SECTION 1 LESSON 3 CORE FUNCTION UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What are the 3 core functions of public health?
Answer:
1. Assessment
2. Policy development
3. Assurance
Question:
2. What is public health?
Answer:
the totality of all evidence-based public and private efforts throughout the life cycle that preserve and
promote health and prevent disease, disability, and death
Question:
3. What are the goals of public health?
Answer:
To prevent epidemics and the spread of disease To protect against environmental hazards To prevent
injuries To promote and encourage healthy behaviors To respond to disasters and assist communities
in recovery To ensure the quality and accessibility of health services
Question:
4. What is an NGO?
Answer:
Non-governmental organization
Question:
5. What is assess-ment?
Answer:
core public health function that includes obtaining data that defines the health of the overall
population and specific groups within the population, including defining the nature of new and
persisting health problems.
Question:
6. What is policy de-velopment?
Answer:
core public health function that includes developing evidence-based recommen-dations and other
analyses of options, such as health policy analysis, to guide im-plementation, including efforts to
educate and mobilize community partnerships
Question:
7. What is assur-ance?
, Answer:
core public health function that includes includes governmental public health's oversight
responsibility for ensuring that key components of an effective health system, including health care
and public health, are in place even though the implementation will often be performed by others.
Question:
8. What organiza-tion defined the 3 core functions of public health?
Answer:
The National Academy of Medicine
Question:
9. What organiza-tion defined the 10 essential pub-lic health ser-vices?
Answer:
Public Health in America
Question:
10. What do the 10 essential pub-lic health services provide?
Answer:
a mechanism for evaluating whether the core functions of public health are fulfilled
Question:
11. Which of the 10 essential pub-lic health services are tied to the core function of assessment?
Answer:
1. Monitoring health status to identify and solve community health problems
2. Diagnosing and investigating health problems and health hazards in the com-
munity
Question:
12. How should "monitoring health status to identify and solve community health problems" be
fulfilled?
Answer:
1. by identifying an accurate diagnosis of the community's health status
2. identification of threats to health and assessment of health service needs
3. timely collection, analysis, and publication of information on access, utilization,
costs, and outcomes of personal health services
4. attention to the vital statistics and health status of specific groups that are at a
higher risk than the total population
5. collaboration to manage integrated information systems with private providers
and health benefit plans.
Question:
13. What are exam-ples of "monitor-ing health status to identify and solve communi-ty health
prob-lems"?
Answer:
1. Vital statistics
Health surveys
2. Surveillance, including reportable diseases
