WorksheetsPublic Health Midterm
Total questions: 59
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
What type of activities would be considered public health? Select all that applies.
Vaccinating children and adults to prevent the spread of disease
Educating people about the risks of alcohol and tobacco
Increase in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke
Encouraging healthy behaviors
What was John Snow best known for? Select all that applies.
For defending The Night’s Watch
Tracing the source of the cholera outbreak
The father of modern epidemiology
Tracing the source of the polio outbreak
Which of the following would be considered a micro level of public health
A community pharmacist who speaks to community groups about drug abuse
A pharmacist who is the drug program administrator of a state Medicaid program
Addressing the public’s needs and plan system-level changes that provide incentives to pharmacists performing public health activities
Provides hypertension screening in his or her pharmacy
Describe the purpose of public health:
Assuring people can be unhealthy and aiming to provide maximum benefit for the largest number of people.
Preventing disease, shortening life, and promoting health through organized efforts.
Assuring people can be healthy and aiming to provide low benefit for the largest number of people.
Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts.
Identify 10 public health achievements of the 20th century:
Systematically collecting, analyzing, and making information on healthy communities is known as (a)
Assurance is:
Ensuring provision of services to those in need
Promoting the use of a scientific knowledge base in policy and decision making
Systematically collecting and analyzing information
Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships
Hot Spot Question: Where is Assessment
Hot Spot Question: Where is Assurance?
Hot Spot Question: Where is Equity?
Hot Spot Question: Where is Policy Development?
T/F: Macro levels in public health emphasize the well-being of the patient
True
False
What goes in the missing box?
What is the cause?
How it happened?
Where did it happen?
What is the purpose?
Which of the following would be considered Medical Care and Health Care?
Individual patient focus
Personal service ethic
Diagnosis and treatment emphasis
Joining laboratory and patient involvement
Private sector basis
Explain the relevance of and rationale for pharmacist’ involvement in public health.
Through continuous research, Snow understood what interventions were required to (Select all that applies):
Stop exposure to the contaminated water supply on a larger scale
Stop exposure to the entire supply of contaminated water in the area
Stop exposure to the contaminated water supply on a smaller scale
Stop exposure to some of the supply of contaminated water in the area
T/F: Federal government can report on local tobacco use?
True
False
T/F: State government can monitor state tobacco use?
True
False
Identify the partners in the public health system:
Community
Academia
The media
Employers and businesses
Medicare
Academia role in public health is to:
Educate
Wellness initiatives and benefits
City planning
Training
What are some health determinants:
Genetics
Behavior
Enivonmental and physical influences
Medical care
T/F: Preventive medicine, Socioeconomic factors increases individual effort needed?
True
False
Which of the following are public health core sciences?
Informatics
Seatbelt laws
Smoking restrictions
Treatment of heart disease
Education
What are the well-being of the patient on micro-level?
Tobacco cessation
Immunizations
Health screening
Health education
Patient counseling
Which type of prevention involves screening to detect or diagnose disease, injury, or disability
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
The pharmacist’s role is (a) beyond the traditional product-oriented functions of dispensing and distributing medicines and health supplies.
What can a pharmacist do in: assess and monitor population health
What can a pharmacist do in: investigate, diagnose, and address health hazards and roots causes
What can a pharmacist do in: communicating effectively to inform and educate
What is epidemiology?
The study of the well-being of a patient’s disease state
Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized
efforts.
Assuring conditions in which people can be healthy and aiming to provide maximum benefit for the largest number of people
Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states among
specified populations and the application of that study to the control of health
problems
Surveillance is one of the core functions of epidemiology, which of the following(s) below would fit in that category?
Investigation by the public health department
Ongoing, systematic collection, of health data
Working with other individuals in public health settings
Provide input, testimony, and recommendations regarding disease control strategies
Calculate a rate in a given population, which is the correct formula to use?
Rate (%)= population at risk / # of cases x 100
Rate (%)= 6 / population at risk x 100
Rate (%)= #number of cases / population at risk x 100
Epidemiology approach consists of_____, _____, _____
(a)
T/F: Morbidity definition is the measure of death?
True
False
T/F: Mortality definition is the measure of illness?
True
False
Incidence: The occurrence of (a) cases of disease or injury in a population over a specified period of time
Calculate the rate of Legionnaires Disease during July 21-24 1976 for the age of 70. If the total number of patients was 54 and the amount sick were 11.
T/F: Rates can be standardized per 100, per
10,000, or per 100,000 people
True
False
You just started your new job at a research facility. Your boss Dr. Kutob ask you to compare the alcohol and drug dependency in New Mexico and New Jersey. Upon your discovery you notice that the alcohol dependence in New Mexico with teens 12-17 is 1.8% while in New Jersey teens between 12-17 have a 1.5% dependency. The drug dependency in New Mexico is 0.5% opioid use disorder, 3.9% opioid misuse. In Jersey 1% opioid use disorder and 3.5% opioid misuse.
You can conclude that there are higher rates of both drug and alcohol dependency for those who lives in (a)
What are the eight determinants or major influences on rural health disparities:
(a)
What is a rural area?
Why is healthcare in rural America deteriorating?
From March 2003 – March 2018, 16.1% of independently owned community pharmacies in rural areas of the U.S. closed. In that same timeframe, 630 communities no longer have any pharmacy.
Why do you think this is happening?
Why are Health Outcomes Worse in Rural Areas?
More tobacco use
More obesity
More exercise
Lower incomes
More access to health care providers
T/F: People who live in rural areas have access to care and more health care providers.
True
False
T/F: Political voice is related to communities’ empowerment to improve influences on their health and well-being
True
False
As a pharmacist, now that you have a general idea of the health status of the population around you, continue to think of ways that you can improve health outcomes by identifying the roost causes of health problems and disparities and working towards collaborating to create solutions.
For outlying areas, what determinants of rural health might apply?
What are the health problems that can result from those determinants?
What are pharmacy-related solutions?
(a)
Preventive medicine and the role of the pharmacist is to focus on the health of:
Individuals
Communities
Define populations
Disability
What does USPSTF stand for?
United States Preventive Services Task Force
United States Prescription Services Task Force
United States Prescriber Services Task Force
United States Pharmacy Services Task Force
Describe preventive medicine and the role of the pharmacist in it
Which grade is highly certainty that the net benefit is substantial?
Grade B
Grade C
Grade A
Grade E
Which grade is highly certainty that the net benefit is moderate or there is moderate certainty that the net benefit is moderate to substantial?
Grade A
Grade C
Grade I
Grade B
Define social determinants of health:
(a)
List examples of social determinants of health:
(a)
Define "Global Health":
Justice and Human Rights
Conditions in the environments where people are born
The economic stability
Health care access and quality
What are some advances The WHO (World Health Organization):
Increased life expectancy
Decreased infant mortality
Eradication
Monitoring air pollution in 4,000 cities
Anti-tobacco therapy
What are some challenges the WHO (World Health Organization):
Heart Disease
Cancer
Increased life expectancy
Screening 5,000 potential infectious disease outbreak every month
List 2 ways of "what success looks like" from The WHO:
(a)
