Test Bank for Turnock's Public Health
8th Edition by Birkhead, Morrow, Pirani
ISBN: 9781284019148
Multiple Choice
1. What factor contributed to the escalation of criticism against public health during the COVID19 pandemic?
A) Lack of media coverage
B) Decrease in political involvement
C) Instantaneous social connectivity and political polarization
D) Stronger international cooperation
ANSWER: C
Ahead: A Brief History of Public Health in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
2. Which of the following statements characterizes an important difference between public health and most other professions?
A) Education and training beyond the undergraduate (college) level is not available for public health.
B) Large professional organizations do not exist for public health.
C) Public health professionals work only in the public sector.
D) Public health professionals don’t share common academic preparation, but share a commitment to improved population health.
ANSWER: D
Ahead: Definitions of Public Health
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
3. Which of the following is a limitation of defining public health solely as a workforce?
A) It ignores the role of government agencies.
B) It focuses only on private healthcare providers.
C) It overlooks the variety of workers and community involvement.
D) It emphasizes only technical skills like epidemiology.
ANSWER: C
Ahead: Definitions of Public Health
Subject: Chapter 1
Subject: What Is Public Health?
4. Public health was characterized as fulfilling society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people could be healthy by:
A) the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Healthy People 2020.
B) the Institute of Medicine in The Future of Public Health.
C) C.-E.A. Winslow.
D) Sir Geoffrey Vickers.
ANSWER: B
Ahead: Definitions of Public Health
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
5. When public health is seen primarily as actions like tracking diseases and regulating restaurants, it is defined as which of these?
A) A social determinant of health
B) A governmental insurance system
C) A set of knowledge and techniques applied to health problems
D) A charitable healthcare service
ANSWER: C
Ahead: Definitions of Public Health
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
6. Which of these domains of determinants of health is included in the social-ecological model of determinants of health?
A) Living and working conditions
B) Social, family, and community networks
C) Individual behavior
D) All of these options are included.
ANSWER: D
Ahead: Public Health as a System
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
7. Why did Shattuck’s public health recommendations take several decades to be widely accepted?
A) There was initial resistance, and only later did states recognize the importance of environmental and disease control.
B) The government immediately implemented all his suggestions.
C) Public health needs changed quickly after his report.
D) Funding was abundant, so there was no urgency to act.
ANSWER: A
Ahead: A Brief History of Public Health in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
8. Which of the following had the greatest impact on average life expectancy in the United States between 1900 and 2000?
A) Vaccinations for infectious diseases
B) Improvements in sanitation and hygiene
C) Advances in medical care technology
D) Health education
ANSWER: B
Ahead: A Brief History of Public Health in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
9. Protection of the U.S. blood supply was responsible for preventing 1.5 million cases of which of the following?
A) HIV
B) Hepatitis B
C) Tuberculosis
D) Syphilis
ANSWER: B
Ahead: Introduction
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
10. If trends through 1965 continued until today, the world would have 50 million more of which of the following?
A) Alcohol abusers
B) Drug users
C) Smokers
D) Persons living with HIV/AIDS
ANSWER: C
Ahead: Introduction
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
11. Philadelphia created its first board of health in 1783 due to an outbreak of which of the following?
A) Yellow fever
B) Cholera
C) Tuberculosis
D) Diphtheria
ANSWER: A
Ahead: A Brief History of Public Health in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
12. Which of the following diseases was totally eradicated by 1977 due to vaccinations?
A) Tuberculosis
B) Polio
C) Smallpox
D) Cholera
ANSWER: C
Ahead: A Brief History of Public Health in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
13. Who authored the 1850 report that became America’s roadmap for development of a public health system?
A) Lemuel Shattuck
B) Edward Jenner
C) Edwin Chadwick
D) C.-E.A. Winslow
ANSWER: A
Ahead: A Brief History of Public Health in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
14. Which of the following is an abstract concept that determines how each member of society is allocated their fair share of collective burdens and benefits?
A) Class
B) Science
C) Race
D) Justice
ANSWER: D
Ahead: Characteristics of a Public Health Approach
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
15. Edwin Chadwick believed that disease was the cause of which of the following social ills?
A) Racism
B) Hunger
C) Poverty
D) Slavery
ANSWER: C
Ahead: A Brief History of Public Health in the United States
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?
16. Smoke free laws, fluoridation of drinking water, and fortification of flour with folic acid are examples of which type of public health intervention?
A) Addressing socio-economic factors
B) Changing the context to make the default decision the healthy decision
C) Long-lasting protective interventions
D) Clinical interventions
ANSWER: B
Ahead: Public Health as a System
Subject: Chapter 1
Title: What Is Public Health?