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1
Focus on disease prevention reflects?
None of the above
Ecological public health
New public health
Old public health
2
How did the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care view health?
Caused by individual deviance
A fundamental human right and a global social issue
As a peripheral social issue
Primarily as a political responsibility
3
A disease required by law to be reported by doctors/laboratories to the government is a:
Notifiable condition
Non-communicable disease
Communicable disease
Monitored condition
4
Culture is:
Invariable
Dynamic
Static
Multi-sectorial
5
What factors that affect health are more stable and less easily changed?
Transitional
Intermediate
Proximal
Distal
6
The Ottawa Charter proposed how many priority action areas:
Six
Three
Eight
Five
7
The empowerment model of health education works best when it is:
Conducted as part of a comprehensive approach
Relevant to the health needs of a population
Used as a standalone program for individual communities
Focused on providing health information to affect change
8
Which of the following types of information constitutes vital statistics collected by the ABS?
Employment status
Population growth
Housing type
Morbidity and mortality rates
9
The Federal Government is responsible for:
Health insurance, food labelling and aged care
Drugs, environmental health and immunisation
Community services for youth and social well-being
Immunisation, school health and dental screening
10
What is required to eradicate polio?
Clean water and educating the community on hygiene practices
Rapid treatment of people with polio as there is no vaccine
A combination of surveillance and immunisation
All of the above
11
Health is best described as a resource which allows a person to have:
A social and spiritual life
A productive economic, spiritual and physical well-being
Physical capacity
A productive individual, social and economic life
12
The goal of the Commission on SDOH was to influence change in health policy by:
Providing financial support through the World Bank
Collecting and synthesising scientific evidence
Empowering the role of non-government organisations
Producing a definitive list of health determinants
13
A Healthy Cities approach is concerned with?
Reducing public housing
Increasing accessibility of cars for transport
Complex health issues associated with urbanisation
Supporting increases in industrial development
14
Analytic epidemiology commonly utilises which study designs?
Cross-sectional, longitudinal and ecological
Longitudinal, case-control and cohort
Ecological, case-control and cohort
Cross-sectional, longitudinal and cohort
15
What percentage of adult Australians were found to have a high level of health literacy?
6 percent
25 percent
15 percent
10 percent
16
The tropical medicine movement was driven by:
Both a and b
The need to protect native people of colonies from disease
The need to control the spread of disease
Fear of colonialists catching local diseases
17
“Of 35 million deaths attributable to NCDs annually ___ are in low + middle-income countries”
90%
60%
70%
80%
18
The underlying cause of social exclusion is:
Political naivety
Power inequality
Poverty
Illiteracy
19
Which of the following is NOT a national government cancer screening program in Australia?
Breast cancer screening
Cervical cancer screening
Prostate cancer screening
Bowel cancer screening
20
The field of health promotion emerged in:
1960s
1990s
1980s
1970s
21
What factors led to the formation of the World Health Organisation?
Cholera and typhoid epidemics in Asia
The health consequences of World War II
The influenza epidemic of 1918–1919
The psychological consequences of World War I
22
Social justice refers to:
Ensuring the punishment fits the crime
An ethical concept based on human rights and fairness
Social inclusion
An ethical concept based on autonomy
23
Essential public health services include:
Education
All of the above
Diagnosis of health problems
Monitoring health status
24
What was the reason for a move to the welfare state after World War II?
To rebuild economy, national identity + meet social needs
To build a healthy population and lessen class conflict
To reward people for their endeavours during the war
Because of a fear of communism + to build national identity
25
An attitude holding a person as responsible for their own health problem is:
Internal locus of control
Victim blaming
Negative health attitude
Negative health blaming
26
Vaccination is considered 2nd to what public health measure to prevent infectious disease?
Clean water and sanitation
Good quality infrastructure and low density housing
Clean air
Public education
27
What is the focus of the traditional model of health education?
Compliance with treatment and risk management
Encourage client to actively participate in managing disease
Having the client adopt healthy health behaviours
Empowerment of the client
28
“For prevention of NCDs, people need to…”
Have comprehensive health insurance
Practice safer sex
Reduce or avoid travel to high risk destinations
Adopt healthy living choices
29
Why does Bird Flu vaccine become ineffective once the virus starts spreading person to person?
The vaccine testing was inadequate
The virus naturally dies out
The vaccine is highly perishable
The virus is constantly mutating
30
Focus on health promotion reflects:
Conventional health
Ecological public health
Old public health
New public health
31
Which field of study was described as the cornerstone of public health?
Health promotion
Social determinants
Epidemiology
Population health
32
Which of the following is an example of a downstream health intervention?
Prevention of disease
Provision of health information to young adults
Making regulations to govern infection control state wide
Community development
33
Which of the following sectors was not listed as being influential in the creation of health?
Education
Politics and government
Medical
Economy and taxation
34
The People’s Health Movement aims to:
Provide community-run health services
Reduce privatisation of health care
Increase health-related philanthropy by corporations
Change the way power is distributed in society
35
What are some of the requirements to ensure a program will be successful?
action of the program by participants
Engagement with the participants in program planning
Quality materials and appropriateness for participants
All of the above
36
Actions driven by the health sector to deal with identifiable risk factors best describes:
Health system developments
Globalisation
Disease prevention
Disease intervention
37
Which of the following is NOT a national government cancer screening program in Australia?
Cervical cancer screening
Breast cancer screening
Prostate cancer screening
Bowel cancer screening
38
An individual whose total income falls below a fixed income point, classifying them as poor =
Absolute poverty
Relative poverty
Transient poverty
Chronic poverty
39
Specifically studying the interaction of people with their environment is:
Ecology
Human biology
Human ecology
Economics
40
Which of the following are policies for advocacy?
National action plans
Position statements
Protocols
Practice guidelines
41
What is a major problem for organisations involved with planning global health strategies?
Unreliable data sets
Computerisation
Health literacy
The social health model
42
What philosophy underpins welfare policies?
Self-reliance and private partnerships
Equitable redistribution of income and wealth
Economic rationalism
Inequality of access to income and resources
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Health equity refers to the:
Disparities in health status among individuals
Discrimination inherent in health care
Statistical differences in health between groups
Right to fair distribution of health services
