Advance Public Health

Public Health surveillance includes all the following activities except

• data collection
• data analysis
• data interpretation
• disease control

Current public health surveillance targets which of the following?

• chronic diseases 
• health-related behaviors
• presence of viruses in mosquitoes
• all the above

Current public health surveillance targets which of the following?

• chronic diseases 
• health-related behaviors
• presence of viruses in mosquitoes
• all the above

Public health surveillance can be described primarily as which of the following?

• A method to monitor occurrences of public health problems.
• A program to control disease outbreaks.
• A system for collecting health related information.
• A system for monitoring persons who have been exposed 

Public health surveillance is only conducted by public health agencies

• True
• False

Common uses and application of public health surveillance include which of the following?

• Detecting individual persons with malaria so that they can receive prompt and appropriate treatment.
• Helping public health officials decide how to allocate their disease control resources.
• Documenting changes in the incidence of varicella (chickenpox), if any, after a law requiring varicella vaccination took effect.
• all of the above

Data collected through which of the following methods is commonly used for surveillance?

• Vital registration.
• Randomized clinical trials.
• Disease notifications.
• Population surveys.

Health-care providers might be important sources of surveillance data used by public health officials, and they should receive feedback to close the surveillance loop as a courtesy; however, the results almost never have any relevance to patient care provided by those health-care providers.

• True 
• False

Vital statistics are important sources of data on which of the following?

• Morbidity.
• Mortality.
• Health-related behaviors.
• Injury and disability.

Vital statistics provide an archive of certain health data. These data do not become surveillance data until they are analyzed, interpreted, and disseminated with the intent of influencing public health decision-making or action.

• True
• False