H100 FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AN ANSWERS
Which of the following entities contribute to public health effort? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hospitals
Nursing homes
Public health agencies
Businesses
Which of the following is an example of a primary prevention measure being taken in response to
COVID-19?
a.International travel restrictions
b.Putting sick individuals in quarantine
c.Contact-tracing
d.Purchasing more respirator machines for hospitals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅International travel
restrictions
What is the primary focus of public health?
a.Clinical disease and treatment
b.Individual health instead of population health
c.Promoting health through organized community efforts
d.Making sure everyone eats healthy and exercises - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Promoting health through
organized community efforts
What is the first step to taking public health action?
a.Figuring out what the health problem is and how much it burdens the population
b.Figuring out what causes the health problem you're investigating
c.Making recommendations for how to address the health problem
, d.Evaluating what approaches work best for addressing the health problem - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Figuring out what the health problem is and how much it burdens the population
How does epidemiology help us to solve health problems?
a.It helps us to determine who will develop a particular health condition if there's no intervention
b.It enables us to predict when the worst disease epidemics will occur
c.It tells us how to develop an appropriate response in the midst of a health crisis
d.It gives us insight into the occurrence and distribution of health-related states in specified populations
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅It gives us insight into the occurrence and distribution of health-related states
in specified populations
Which of the following would be considered appropriate evidence for "causation" between smoking and
lung cancer?
a.A peer-reviewed journal article which shows that a higher proportion of smokers in their study
develop lung cancer compared to non-smokers
b.Strong, consistent results from many studies connecting smoking and lung cancer across different
populations and time settings
c.International findings that countries with more smokers have higher rates of lung cancer
d.My uncle was a smoker for over 20 years and developed lung cancer - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Strong,
consistent results from many studies connecting smoking and lung cancer across different populations
and time settings
You discover that 15% of people living in your state this year have type 2 diabetes. What type of
frequency measure is this?
a.Incidence
b.Prevalence
c.Absolute risk
d.Relative risk - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prevalence
Which of the following entities contribute to public health effort? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hospitals
Nursing homes
Public health agencies
Businesses
Which of the following is an example of a primary prevention measure being taken in response to
COVID-19?
a.International travel restrictions
b.Putting sick individuals in quarantine
c.Contact-tracing
d.Purchasing more respirator machines for hospitals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅International travel
restrictions
What is the primary focus of public health?
a.Clinical disease and treatment
b.Individual health instead of population health
c.Promoting health through organized community efforts
d.Making sure everyone eats healthy and exercises - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Promoting health through
organized community efforts
What is the first step to taking public health action?
a.Figuring out what the health problem is and how much it burdens the population
b.Figuring out what causes the health problem you're investigating
c.Making recommendations for how to address the health problem
, d.Evaluating what approaches work best for addressing the health problem - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Figuring out what the health problem is and how much it burdens the population
How does epidemiology help us to solve health problems?
a.It helps us to determine who will develop a particular health condition if there's no intervention
b.It enables us to predict when the worst disease epidemics will occur
c.It tells us how to develop an appropriate response in the midst of a health crisis
d.It gives us insight into the occurrence and distribution of health-related states in specified populations
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅It gives us insight into the occurrence and distribution of health-related states
in specified populations
Which of the following would be considered appropriate evidence for "causation" between smoking and
lung cancer?
a.A peer-reviewed journal article which shows that a higher proportion of smokers in their study
develop lung cancer compared to non-smokers
b.Strong, consistent results from many studies connecting smoking and lung cancer across different
populations and time settings
c.International findings that countries with more smokers have higher rates of lung cancer
d.My uncle was a smoker for over 20 years and developed lung cancer - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Strong,
consistent results from many studies connecting smoking and lung cancer across different populations
and time settings
You discover that 15% of people living in your state this year have type 2 diabetes. What type of
frequency measure is this?
a.Incidence
b.Prevalence
c.Absolute risk
d.Relative risk - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prevalence
