Medical Interventions 1.1.1 -1.1.3 Quiz

Which of the following is not a medical intervention?

• Toothbrush
• Appendectomy
• Physical therapy
• None of these

You go to the doctor for a cut you got mowing the lawn. The doctor takes xrays to make sure there are no broken bones, then he cleans and stitches the cut, wraps it in gauze and prescribes antibiotics to prevent infection. What medical interventions have you had today?

• surgical

• pharmacology

• diagnostics

• all of the above

Medical Interventions come in different categories. Categories include all of the following except:

• Pharmacology

• Immunology

• Diagnostics

• Cardiology

What is the first step of a medical investigation? (Two answers)

• Prescribing treatments

• Linking symptoms together

• Tying symptoms to suspected disease causing pathogens

• Performing diagnostic tests

Factors that influence a health department's decision whether or not to conduct a field investigation in response to one or more cases of disease include:

• The nature of the disease
• The number of cases
• Resources available
• all of the above

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

Which is the most common way that a local health department uncovers outbreaks?

• Performing descriptive analysis of surveillance data each week
• Performing time series analysis to detect deviations from expected values based on the previous few weeks and comparable periods during the previous few years
• Receiving calls from affected residents and health care providers
• Reviewing all case reports received each week to detect common features

A physician working in an emergency room in Town A, USA, has just examined a tourist from Southeast Asia with watery diarrhea. The physician suspects the man might have cholera. The physician should notify the …

• Local (town or county) or state health agency.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• U.S. Department of State.
• Washington, D.C., embassy of country of origin (ask for health attaché).

The collection, classification, storage and analysis of biochemical and biological information using computers, especially as applied to molecular genetics and genomics is known as which of the following?

• DNA sequencing

• Bioinformatics

• Immunological assay

• ELISA

Which of the following most definitely identifies a pathogen?

• consensus of symptoms of those affected

• presence of absence of a rash

• response to antibiotics

• DNA sequencing

• none of these