Self Assessment Quiz 5

1.	Which one of these has the fundamental responsibility to determine the health status and the health needs of the people within its jurisdiction, determine to what extent these needs are being effectively met by effective measures currently available, and take steps to see that the unmet needs are satisfied?
		U.S. Public Health Service
		Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
		State and local health departments
		Public hospitals

2.	The concept that government is responsible to ensure that standards are met in every community developed with the 1979 revision of the Model Standards and is referred to as:
		Primary care
		Coordinated delivery
		Governmental presence in health
		Eminent domain

3.	Which of the following descriptions BEST characterizes the public health practice: Assess the health needs of the community?
		The process of examining data to establish the existence of community factors contributing to identified health problems
		The process of listing, ordering and classifying community health problems based on the size and seriousness of the problem and the acceptability, economic feasibility and effectiveness of interventions
		Systematic response to obtain information regarding health effects, acute and chronic diseases, premature death, disability and environmental hazards
		The process of systematically describing the prevailing health status and health problems of a community

4.	Which of these best characterize the public health practice: Advocate for public health, build constituencies and identify resources in the community?
		The process of generating support among outside groups which address community health needs and issues
		The process in which health agencies, working together with their constituents and others, formulate goals and objectives to meet the priority health needs of the community, and identify a course of action to achieve these goals and objectives
		The process of acquiring, allocating and controlling resources, both human and fiscal, that will enable a public health agency to improve its leadership, work force and operational systems that respond to current and future community needs
		The process of taking action on plans and policies to accomplish the community's public health objectives

5.	The Institute of Medicine report The Future of Public Health characterized the core functions of governmental public health to be all of the following EXCEPT:
		Assessment of public health problems
		Assurance of delivery of needed services
		Public policy development
		Public education and information

6.	The Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified which level of government as the central force in public health bearing primary public sector responsibility for health?
		Municipal
		Federal
		State
		County

7.	Which of these pairs were not included among the so-called basic 6 services of public health that characterize public health practice over the first half of the 20th century in the U.S.:
		Communicable disease control and health education
		Sanitation and laboratory services
		Primary care and chronic disease prevention
		Vital statistics and maternal and child health

8.	Which of these is represents a framework for linking community health planning processes with the national health objectives for the year 2010.
		Healthy People 2010
		APEXPH
		PATCH
		Healthy Communities 2000/Model Standards

9.	Quality improvement efforts for the public health system focus most extensively on which aspect of the system?
		Processes
		Inputs
		Outputs
		Outcomes

10.	The definition of a local health department as a unit of local government, with at least one full-time employee and a budget, with responsibilities for health is what type of definition?
		mission-driven
		functional
		structural
		process-oriented