UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
saves lives one at a time - CORRECT ANSWER -What does medicine do?
saves lives millions at a time - CORRECT ANSWER -What does public health do?
3 - CORRECT ANSWER -How many levels of public health prevention interventions are there?
- primary
- secondary
- tertiary - CORRECT ANSWER -What are the three levels of public health prevention?
primary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER -What type of prevention is this: prevent problems
before they occur?
secondary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER -What type of prevention is this: early detection and
intervention?
tertiary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER -What type of prevention is this: prevention of
deterioration once the disease is present?
immunization, birth control and condom usage, regular dental cleanings and care, and hand-washing -
CORRECT ANSWER -What are examples of primary prevention?
regular exams and screening tests to detect disease in its earliest stages - CORRECT ANSWER -
What are examples of secondary prevention
, cardiac or stroke rehabilitation programs, support groups that allow members to share strategies for living
well - CORRECT ANSWER -What are examples of tertiary prevention?
use tools to assess family support persons, link to community resources, link to health department, link to
home care team - CORRECT ANSWER -What is the role of public health nurses?
- economic stability
- neighborhood and built environment
- health and health care
- social and community context
- education - CORRECT ANSWER -What are the social determinants of health?
strong associations between social determinants of health factors and health outcomes - CORRECT
ANSWER -What contributes to health disparities?
- cultural literacy
- intercultural communication - CORRECT ANSWER -What helps address bias with health
disparities?
bias - CORRECT ANSWER -What term is this: prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person,
or group compared with another; can be unconscious or implicit?
culture shock - CORRECT ANSWER -What term is this: the degree to which a person feels trauma
related to being exposed to a new culture?
health culture shock - CORRECT ANSWER -What is this: struggles to navigate care?
precision medicine - CORRECT ANSWER -What term is this: seeks to integrate a bounty of data
from each person's genome - combined with data from his or her environment and lifestyle - to tailor
medical treatment to the individual rather than what has been characterized as "treating to the average"?