Self Assessment Quiz 4

1.	Government can influence the health of its citizens by:
		Altering social factors that influence health
		Assuring equity and equality through public programs
		Providing access to services
		All of the above

2.	The principal purposes of law in public health are:
		Promote/protect health and establish fair processes
		Regulate human behavior and control infectious disease risks
		Provide licensing and police power authorities
		Establish administrative law and judicial appeal systems

3.	As a society, we endorse the delegation of executive, legislative, and judicial authority to administrative agencies for many reasons, EXCEPT which of these?
		Because the complexity of modern society calls for more regulatory bodies to fulfill government's expanded regulatory roles
		Because of the need to rely upon the technical and professional expertise of agency personnel to carry out the public policy behind the legislation
		Because it is not always possible or even wise to include extensive detailed and technical information in a statute
		Because of the need to lessen the burden on the civil court system

4.	Which of the following best defines the term administrative law?
		Agency law promulgated through the rule-making process
		A vague concept that is just now developing into a viable public health tool
		The best method for forcing offenders to come into compliance
		It does the most to enhance the quality of our daily lives

5.	The major strategy used by the federal government in the US after about 1935 to influence the health policies and services of states and local governments was:
		Appointment of state health directors
		Development of strong national policy through federal legislation
		Establishment of direct federal health service systems
		The grant-in-aid mechanism

6.	More than three-fourths of all US local health departments are organized at this level of government:
		County
		City
		Township
		State

7.	Which of these characteristics applies to the greatest number of official state health departments in the US?
		Lead environmental agency for the state
		Free-standing, independent agency (not part of a multi-purpose human services agency)
		Operates state institutions
		Operates the state's Medicaid Program

8.	The joint federal-state program that covers health and medical services for the medically needy and certain categories of individuals (e.g., blind, disabled):
		Supplemental Security Income Program
		Medicare Program
		Medicaid Program
		Maternal and Child Block Grant Program

9.	The Institute of Medicine identified which level of government as the central force in public health, bearing primary public sector responsibility for the health of the people?
		Federal
		State
		County
		Municipal

10.	The largest share of state and local public health agency expenditures (from all sources) nationally, as well as in most states, funds what services?
		Prevention and control of AIDS and HIV infections
		Regulation of hospitals and nursing homes
		Maternal and child health services
		Environmental health services