Board Review in Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Gregory M. Schwaid

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780128137796
• Topic: Médecine
• Subtopic: Santé publique, administration et soins

Board Review in Preventive Medicine and Public Health prepares physicians for their initial and recertification board exams in the related specialties of preventive, occupational and aerospace medicine. Formatted in a question and answer based style that imitates material on specialty exams, each question is linked to a detailed answer. The book contains over 640 question and answer sets covering areas such as general public health, health management, health law, community health, infectious disease, clinical preventive medicine, occupational medicine, aerospace medicine, environmental medicine, correctional (prison) medicine, emergency preparedness, epidemiology and biostatistics.

The book is an essential board preparation for physicians with a background in the fields of preventive medicine, occupational medicine, and aerospace medicine. It is also useful for medical students, public health students and those wishing to gain an understanding of the key points in these fields.

• Provides a question based format that imitates board exams in preventive, occupational and aerospace medicine
• Written by a specialist with board certification with the goal of elucidating the format, content and reasoning behind the board certification exam
• Enhances the reader's understanding of material with clear explanations of answers

Chapter One

General Public Health

Abstract

In public health and preventive medicine, the population is considered the patient. Health interventions may have an impact on enormous amounts of people. This section addresses concepts at the foundation of public health and preventive medicine (27 questions).

Keywords

Public health; preventive; health models; essential services; core functions; population

1.1 General Public Health Questions

1. What are the three core functions of public health?

A. Assessment, policy development, assurance

B. Prevention, legislation, enforcement

C. Epidemiology, environmental health, individual health

D. Health education, health promotion, health care

E. None of the above

2. What is the relation between the core public health functions and the essential public health services?

A. Core functions are a product of federal government, while the essential services are a product of state and/or local government

B. The core functions and the essential services are different words for the same thing

C. The core functions fall within the essential services

D. The essential services fall within the core functions

E. There is no relationship between the two

3. Licensing health-care facilities is an action that falls within which public health core function?

A. Assessment

B. Assurance

C. Enforcement

D. Regulation

E. Safety

4. The Surgeon General oversees which of the following?

A. American Red Cross

B. Department of Health and Human Services

C. Physician officers in the Army

D. Nobody, the Surgeon General is a figurehead for the health of the nation and does not have authority

E. US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

5. Which of the following is not true of water fluoridation?

A. After discontinuation of water fluoridation, there is an increase in missing teeth

B. After initiation of fluoridation, there is a decrease in dental caries

C. Community water fluoridation reduces dental caries across all socioeconomic status groups

D. The larger the population of those on community water fluoridation systems, the more expensive it is per individual

E. Water fluoridation reduces the number of people without a single dental cavity

6. An unemployed single mother of four children (ages 2, 4, 7, and 9) presents to the county nutrition clinic after moving from another state. How many of the children will the Woman, Infants, and Children (WIC) program directly benefit?

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3

E. 4

7. The US PEPFAR Program targets which disease?

A. AIDS/HIV

B. Asthma

C. Diarrheal disease

D. Hepatitis

E. Malaria

8. The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Ryan White Program is dedicated to helping those with which disease?

A. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

B. Diabetes

C. HIV

D. Lung cancer

E. Pediatric obesity

9. How often are the Healthy People objectives updated?

A. Annually

B. 3 years

C. 5 years

D. 10 years

E. 20 years

10. Compared to the general population in the United States, the prison population in the United States has a lower prevalence of which ailment?

A. Diabetes mellitus

B. HIV

C. Substance abuse

D. Tuberculosis

E. None of the above

11. Which of the following is the leading cause of death in American jails?

A. Accident

B. Alcohol/drug overdose

C. Heart disease

D. Homicide

E. Suicide

12. Which model of health behavior includes perceived susceptibility?

A. Health Belief Model

B. Social Cognitive Theory

C. Theory of Reasoned Action

D. Transtheoretical Model

E. None of the above

13. Which model of health behavior proposes that the actual change in a behavior is correlated to the intention to change the behavior?

A. Health Belief Model

B. Social Cognitive Theory

C. Theory of Reasoned Action

D. Transtheoretical Model

E. None of the above

14. Which model of health behavior includes reciprocal determinism?

A. Health Belief Model

B. Social Cognitive Theory

C. Theory of Reasoned Action

D. Transtheoretical Model

E. None of the above

15. After years of deliberation, a smoker has decided to speak to his physician about quitting. The physician suggests setting a quit date. Which step in the Transtheoretical Model does setting a quit date represent?

A. Precontemplation

B. Contemplation

C. Preparation

D. Action

E. Maintenance

16. Which of the following is not considered to be one of the distinct categories of the Diffusion of Innovation Model?

A. Early adaptors

B. Early majority

C. Innovators

D. Late majority

E. Majority

17. What is the first step in completing the CDC’s Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE) tool?

A. Assemble the community team

B. Build the community action plan

C. Create a change summary statement

D. Gather data

E. Review all five change sectors

18. Which of the following is not one of the five Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE) sectors?

A. Community-a-large se...

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Copyright
• About the Author
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter One. General Public Health
• Chapter Two. Health Policy and Management
• Chapter Three. Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• Chapter Four. Environmental Medicine
• Chapter Five. Occupational and Aerospace Medicine
• Chapter Six. Clinical Preventive Medicine
• Chapter Seven. Infectious Disease
• Chapter Eight. Emergency Preparedness
• Index