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CPH Exam Practice Questions & Answers. 100% Accurate. 2022/2023. Rated A Public Health professionals have to learn to work effectively with the media. Public health is potentially appealing for... the popular press because: 1. its stories have urgency, drama and novelty. 2. it is a source rich in detail, facts and figures. 3. scientists and journalists have a long history of mutual trust. 4. public information officers issue press releases. - ✔✔its stories have urgency, drama and novelty in the design and implementation of public health data systems, installing security features should be: 1. inherent in privacy by design at all stages. 2. a task separately done by an expert cybersecurity team. 3. limited to firewalls and administrative control. 4. the final step before release of software systems. - ✔✔inherent in privacy by design at all stages When beginning work with a coalition of community groups to improve health outcomes in the community, a key first step would be to: 1. Develop a shared vision 2. Develop an evaluation plan 3. Develop a data collection plan 4. Develop a logic model - ✔✔Develop a shared vision If two copies of a mutant allele are necessary to cause symptoms of a disease to appear in the phenotype, what type of genetic disease is this? 1. Recessive 2. Sex-linked 3. Autosomal 4. Dominant - ✔✔Recessive River water pollution due to stormwater runoff from chemically fertilized farm fields is an example of: 1. Non-point source pollution 2. Point source pollution 3. Accidental and unforeseeable pollution 4. Unpreventable and inconsequential pollution - ✔✔non-point source pollution Count data, such as the number of events occurring in a specified period of time, are often described by which probability distribution? 1. Binomial 2. Chi-square 3. Normal 4. Poisson - ✔✔Poisson is often used to describe count data and can be used to describe rate data by including an offset term for the denominator of the rate - ✔✔Poisson Distribution the probability distribution for the number of successes in a sequence of Bernoulli trials, which are a series of trials where each trial can either succeed or fail, the trials are independent, and the probability of success is the same for each trial. - ✔✔binomial distribution is a right-skewed distribution where the area under the curve is equal to one, it starts at 0 on the x-axis and extends infinitely to the right but never touches the x-axis, and where the curve looks increasingly normal as the degrees of freedom increase - ✔✔Chi-square distribution a type of bell-shaped curve that is centered around a mean and approaches the x-axis when it is greater than 3 standard deviations away from the mean. - ✔✔Normal Distribution The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare demonstrates that small area variations in Medicare expenditures across geographic areas are primarily attributable to differences in: 1. Physician practice styles 2. Consumer preferences for high-cost services 3. Age of the population served 4. Health status of the population served - ✔✔Physician practice styles After identifying and appointing expert members to inter-professional teams for implementing health initiatives, the administration: 1. has shifted all responsibility to the team. 2. role should only consist of receiving periodic progress reports. 3. should plan to confirm the team norms and dynamics are productive. 4. can announce that the initiative was successfully launched. - ✔✔should plan to confirm the team norms and dynamics are productive What is an evaluation designed to present conclusions about whether a program should be sustained, changed, or eliminated? 1. Formative evaluation 2. Implementation evaluation 3. Process evaluation 4. Summative evaluation - ✔✔Summative evaluation evaluation falls into one of the two broad categories: formative and summative. ____________ evaluations should be completed once your programs are well established and will tell you to what extent the program is achieving its goals - ✔✔summative evaluations Which of the following practices enhances equity across populations when making health policy decisions in a community? 1. Requiring randomized control evidence of effectiveness 2. Allocating resources based on population size 3. Collecting health-related data about the individuals in the community 4. Including diverse constituencies in the decision-making groups - ✔✔including diverse constituencies in the decision-making groups A short narrative or statement that describes the general focus and purpose of a program is called: 1. A mission statement 2. A long-term goal 3. A long-range plan 4. An objective - ✔✔mission statement To learn more about the "natural course" of syphilis, from 1932-1972, the US Public Health Service left infected study participants (comprised of poor black men) untreated. This resulted in pain, blindness, infertility, and death, as well as transmission of the disease to partners and children. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, is a sentinel public health event because of these ethical violations and resulted in: 1. The Nuremberg Code 2. The Belmont Report 3. Rose-Welch Report 4. The Legal Epidemiology Competency Model - ✔✔The Belmont Report The t-distribution approaches which distribution as its degrees of freedom increases? 1. Exponential distribution 2. Normal distribution 3. Binomial distribution 4. Chi-square distribution - ✔✔Normal Distribution Which of the following pairs of values are most likely to conflict during a response to a public health emergency? 1. Truth-telling versus community welfare 2. Beneficence versus justice 3. Individual autonomy versus community welfare 4. Community welfare versus justice - ✔✔Individual autonomy versus community welfare Historically, which of the following had the greatest impact on average life expectancy? 1. Vaccinations for infectious diseases 2. Improvements in sanitation and hygiene 3. Advances in medical care technology 4. Increased application of health education - ✔✔Improvements in sanitation and hygiene Income, interpersonal stress, and education level are all examples of ____________, which determine the overall health, and quality of life of our communities. 1. Physical determinants 2. Spatial determinants 3. Environmental determinants 4. Social determinants - ✔✔Social determinants As a first step in public health emergency preparedness, jurisdictions should: 1. Ask a local government leader what will be expected of them. 2. Outsource public health emergency preparedness responsibilities. 3. Self-assess their ability to address resource elements for each preparedness capability and then assess their ability to demonstrate the functions associated with each capability. 4. Design and conduct at least one table-top exercise. - ✔✔Self-assess their ability to address resource elements for each preparedness capability and then assess their ability to demonstrate the functions associated with each capability. In the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, the step in program planning where planners use data to identify and rank health problems is called: 1. Behavioral assessment 2. Needs assessment 3. Ecological assessment 4. Environmental assessment - ✔✔Needs assessment Policy analysis when designing public health programs is: 1. involves a straightforward statistical analysis of health and public polling data. 2. a subjective political task accomplished by legislative debate and trade-offs. 3. complex, involving data collection and clarification of objectives. 4. impossible to define because different policy areas require different approaches. - ✔✔complex, involving data collection and clarification of objectives A district health department is trying to decide whether to invest in interpretation services and translated materials to address local language barriers, address needs of limited English proficient (LEP) clients and meet Federal requirements. The Four Factor Analysis-to guide LHDs in meeting these mandates and to provide recommendations for providing translated materials and interpretation services- is part of a 1. National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Assessment 2. Language Needs Assessment 3. Health Resource Access Assessment 4. Community Literacy Assessment - ✔✔Language needs assessment Which of the following evaluates asymmetry in a distribution? 1. Skew 2. Range 3. Confidence interval 4. Kurtosis - ✔✔Skew- refers to the symmetry of the curve a measure of the "peakedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable - ✔✔kurtosis is a range of values that are, at a specified probability, likely to contain a specific parameter - ✔✔confidence interval is a measure of dispersion that expresses the lowest and highest value contained in a dataset. - ✔✔range Social marketing is the use of marketing principles to influence human behavior in order to improve health. Which one below is NOT one of the 4 P's of social marketing? 1. Price 2. Promotion 3. Place 4. Process - ✔✔Process The four P's of social marketing is Price, Promotion, Place, and Product. A public health professional is asked to conduct a needs assessment for a community. A needs assessment: 1. Introduces resources to fill community gaps 2. Ensures a competent public and personal health care workforce 3. Assists to identify and prioritize health problems 4. Provides health resources for medically underserved populations - ✔✔Assists to identify and prioritize health problems n some cases of food bourne illness, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome is caused by which organism? 1. Listeria 2. E. coli strain 0157:H7 3. Cryptosporidium 4. Salmonella - ✔✔E. coli strain 0157:H7 Which of the following survey items best assesses an individual's socioeconomic status in terms of increasing validity and response rate? 1. Income in the past month 2. Highest level of education attained 3. Eligibility for public assistance 4. Perception of economic insecurity - ✔✔Perception of economic insecurity Which of the following approaches recognize that health of people is interconnected with health of animals and environment; and collaborate with physicians, veterinarians, ecologists, epidemiologists, and other related healthcare providers to monitor and control public health threats and to learn about how diseases spread among people, animals, and the environment? 1. Veterinary Public Health 2. Environmental Health 3. One Health 4. Population Health - ✔✔One Health A researcher is working with local barber shops to plan a health promotion intervention. The intervention activities will include health education training workshops and educational print materials for the customers. The intervention activities are hypothesized to lead to changes in customers' fruit/vegetable intake, physical activity, and screening adherence. Which of the following statements describes how the researcher might start a formative evaluation plan? 1. Document which participating barbers attended each of the training workshops 2. Document the barbers' change in fruit/vegetable intake 3. Document the customers' change in physical activity 4. Convene focus groups in two barber shops to discuss print materials - ✔✔Convene focus groups in two barber shops to discuss print materials A supervisor of a small community health clinic serving a largely multi-national immigrant community assigns their project manager the responsibility of developing a new process to ensure complaints and conflicts are addressed promptly and respectfully for each patient. This is prompted by a recent complaint that a staff member was rudely addressing a limited English-speaking patient and her family when trying to communicate a diagnosis. In order to create a new process that takes into account the cultural and communication needs of the patients, the program manager must: 1. Create a new conflict process based solely on examples from other clinics. 2. Select a group of patients to provide input on how complaints should be resolved. 3. Wait until a new complaint occurs to observe the existing process. 4. Ask their coworkers how they personally deal with complaints and conflicts in the office. - ✔✔Select a group of patients to provide input on how complaints should be resolved. After reviewing evidence demonstrating increased survival of narcotic self-overdose after immediate naloxone administration, the State Commissioner of Health issues the following standing order: "This order authorizes pharmacists who maintain a current active license practicing in a pharmacy located in Virginia that maintains a current active pharmacy permit to dispense one of the following naloxone formulations (notes intranasal or autoinject kits options), in accordance the current Board of Pharmacy-approved protocol." "The State Good Samaritan Act states in part that any person who, in good faith prescribes, dispenses, or administers naloxone or other opioid antagonist used for overdose reversal in an emergency to an individual who is believed to be experiencing or about to experience a life-threatening opiate overdose shall not be liable for any civil damages for ordinary negligence in acts or omissions resulting from the rendering of such treatment if acting in accordance with the Good Samaritan Act or in his role as a member of an emergency medical services agency." This order demonstrates: 1. Secondary Prevention and Harm Prevention Strategy 2. Secondary Prevention and Harm Reduction Strategy 3. Tertiary Prevention and Harm Reduction Strategy 4. Tertiary Prevention and Harm Prevention Strategy - ✔✔Tertiary Prevention and Harm Reduction Strategy In the funding applications that state public health departments typically submit every year, program and organizational budget requests: 1. are not included, only research project funding is described. 2. are justified by reasonable numbers on accounting spreadsheets. 3. need explanation in a budget narrative. 4. tend to always be funded. - ✔✔need explanation in a budget narrative. May a state officer or employee of a regulatory agency concurrently conduct an outside (private) business or accept outside employment? 1. Yes, provided the outside business activity is unrelated to the area that he or she regulates. 2. No, any outside business engagement gives the appearance of unacceptable conflict of interest. 3. Perhaps, but only if the outside business engagement is approved by the agency's head. 4. There is no clear ethical standard - this is more a question of ability to manage both schedules. - ✔✔Perhaps, but only if the outside business engagement is approved by the agency's head. Which of the following is an example of a utilization rate used to monitor health system performance? 1. Congenital syphilis rate 2. Late stage breast cancer incidence rate 3. Infant mortality rate 4. Readmission rate for depression - ✔✔readmission rate for depression Which of the following best characterizes the contingency theory of leadership? 1. The leader's authority is contingent upon subordinates 2. The leader's effectiveness depends upon factors in the leadership context 3. The leader's effectiveness depends upon the technical competency of staff 4. The leader's authority is contingent upon formal rules and sanctions - ✔✔The leader's effectiveness depends upon factors in the leadership context All written intervention messages (whether printed, computer-delivered, or Internet-based) must: 1. Start with the most important information first 2. Include graphics, pictures, and the like to attract people's attention 3. Be at a reading level suitable to the target population 4. Be no longer than four sentences long - ✔✔Be at a reading level suitable to the target population Select the qualitative method that collects data through a simultaneous conversation with a group of people. 1. key informant interviews 2. discourse analysis 3. surveys 4. focus groups - ✔✔focus groups Waterborne diseases can result from fecal contamination. Which of the following would be classified as a waterborne disease? 1. Cryptosporidium parvum 2. Flavivirus 3. Plasmodium spp. 4. Borrelia burgdorferi - ✔✔Cryptosporidium parvum The objective of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [Show More]

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