If a PHN wants to make the most effective, long term impact globally, they should...

Promote health literacy and increase education

In a natural disaster, what is mitigation?

Actions used to avoid or prevent disaster

A trained health care worker provides the prescribed TB drugs and watches the patient take dose

Directly Observed Therapy (DOT)

Which is NOT one of the components from the WHO Alma-Ata conference "Health for All" goals?

Providing health care insurance

Which is true about the Millennium Developmental Goals (MDG's) and progress meeting them?

Some goals were met, but lacked progress for other goals

Quantified targets for addressing the world's extreme poverty, hunger and lack of shelter...

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

How is Red Cross is different from FEMA?

It is a nongovernmental volunteer agency

From a global perspective, the term primary health care means:

Care given for healthy individuals and community

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Global Health/Communicable Disease

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1
Which is not one of the three main approaches of controlling communicable diseases?
Changing the environment
Screening patients at risk
Inactivating the agent
Increasing the host resistance
2
If a PHN wants to make the most effective, long term impact globally, they should...
Work for FEMA
Promote health literacy and increase education
Make a financial contribution to NGO's
Volunteer your nursing services
3
In a natural disaster, what is mitigation?
Process used to react to help minimize deaths after disaster
Clean up process after a disaster
Psychological interventions to help people after disaster
Actions used to avoid or prevent disaster
4
Common infectious diseases with respiratory illnesses in kids with an increase in mortality
Tuberculosis (TB)
Influenza
Mumps
Chickenpox
5
Case of TB who exposed many people at work, school. PHN intervention to locate at those at risk
Directly Observed Therapy (DOT)
Screening
Case management
Case finding
6
A trained health care worker provides the prescribed TB drugs and watches the patient take dose
Case Finding
Secondary screening
Directly Observed Therapy (DOT)
Herd Immunity
7
Which is NOT one of the components from the WHO Alma-Ata conference "Health for All" goals?
Promotion of food supply and proper nutrition
Providing immunization against communicable diseases
Providing health care insurance
Provision of essential drugs
8
Several states diagnosed an unusually large number of patients with confirmed influenza type B.
An endemic
An epidemic
A pandemic
Both pandemic and epidemic
9
Which is true about the Millennium Developmental Goals (MDG's) and progress meeting them?
The goal is to achieve them by 2020
Each country has it's own set of goals
Some goals were met, but lacked progress for other goals
Each goal is independent of other MDG's objectives and goals
10
Which communicable disease in not an emerging or reemerging diseases ?
Avian Influenza (bird flu)
Ebola
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Malaria
11
Biggest reason for life expectancy and health in America is because of:
Better public health practices
Increased education
Improved housing
Decrease in crime
12
Quantified targets for addressing the world's extreme poverty, hunger and lack of shelter...
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
World Bank
13
Hepatitis C can NOT be transmitted by:
Respiratory droplets
Blood transfusions
Sharing needles
Tattoo inks/body piercings
14
How is Red Cross is different from FEMA?
Funding is from both taxes and voluntary contributions
It helps prepare for emergencies, not just reacting to them
It only has volunteers as staff
It is a nongovernmental volunteer agency
15
CHN interventions in preventing the spread of communicable diseases include:
Developing community outreach program to educate the public
Participating in an outbreak investigation
Providing vaccinations to reduce transmissions
All of the above
16
Hepatitis C infects:
Less number of people with Hep A
Same number of people with AIDS
More people than AIDS
Same number of people with Hep B
17
From a global perspective, the term primary health care means:
Health provided by the World Health Organization (WHO)
Health care given to minimize communicable diseases
Care given for healthy individuals and community
Patients seeing their primary health care provider
18
The period between exposure of an infectious agent and first signs and symptoms is called:
Communicable period
Exposure incident
Infectiousness period
Incubation period

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