Nurs 235 Midterm Exam - Questions With Precise
Solutions
An example of the recent geographic spread of a communicable disease
includes:
A) Smallpox
B) Cervical cancer
C) Chikungunya
D) Polio Right Ans - C) Chikungunya
Which example of a health issue would require the most intersectoral
collaboration to address?
A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
B) Childhood vaccination
C) Essential Surgery
D) Improving maternal care Right Ans - A) Reduction of tobacco
consumption
The best description below of the focus of public health is:
A) Achieving medical care for all
B) Reducing road traffic injuries
C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health through
organized community effort
D) Extending life expectancy Right Ans - C) Preventing disease, prolonging
life, and promoting physical health through organized community effort
Which statement least reflects a global health concern?
A) The application of public health to issues that transcend national
boundaries
B) The achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
C) Cooperative efforts needed to solve a critical public health problem
affecting many countries
D) Global standard setting on diagnostics and drugs Right Ans - B) The
achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
,Planetary health refers to:
A) An approach to public health that concerns animal health
B) An approach to public health that focuses on zoonotic disease
C) An approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of
human health, animal health, and the environment
D) An approach to public health that focuses on the environment Right Ans
- C) An approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of
human health, animal health, and the environment
The Sustainable Development Goals
A) Include a range of goals and targets that relate to health
B) Focus on a healthy environment
C) Are all to be achieved by 2020
D) Say little about global health Right Ans - A) Include a range of goals and
targets that relate to health
Which of the following is an example of a public health approach?
A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
B) A physician counselling an individual patient on the need to exercise
C) A physician encouraging a family to vaccinate their children
D) A community health worker treating individual cases of a disease Right
Ans - A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
The only human disease ever eradicated was:
A) Rinderpest
B) Smallpox
C) Guinea worm
D) Hookworm Right Ans - B) Smallpox
Important progress in health has resulted from:
A) Improvements in hygiene, access to safe water, and access to safe
sanitation
,B) Improvements in technology, such as the dissemination of childhood
vaccines
C) Increases in people's level of education
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - D) All of these are correct
Examples of countries that in the last 50 years achieved substantially better
levels of population health than one might have predicted by their income
level, include:
A) Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands
B) The US
C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
D) Liberia and Sierra Leone Right Ans - C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
Which of these is a reason to enhance your knowledge of global health?
A) Communicable diseases do not respect boundaries
B) Many low- and middle-income countries face a set of similar challenges to
improving their health system
C) Some health issues are greater than any individual country can address
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - D) All of these are correct
The health status of a young child is linked with:
A) Physical growth of the child
B) Performance in school
C) Cognitive development of the child
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - D) All of these are correct
WHO defines health as:
A) A state of well-being
B) A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not just the
absence of infirmity or disease
C) The absence of infirmity
D) None of these are correct Right Ans - B) A state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being, not just the absence of infirmity or disease
Medicine is more focused than public health on:
, A) Individual curative care
B) The treatment of illness
C) The well-being of individual patients
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - D) All of these are correct
One Health refers to:
A) Public health efforts that cut across national boundaries
B) Public health efforts that focus on the connections between animal and
human health
C) Public health efforts that focus on the connections between the health of
the environment, animal health, and human health
D) Holistic efforts at promoting better health Right Ans - B) Public health
efforts that focus on the connections between animal and human health
The best example of a global health issue requiring cooperative action is:
A) A local maternal and child health program
B) The development of new vaccines for TB
C) Health system reform in a specific country
D) The financing of health care in Europe Right Ans - B) The development
of new vaccines for TB
One of the keys to smallpox eradication was:
A) Vaccinating everyone in each affected country
B) Vaccinating only the children in each country
C) Vaccinating in selected areas of countries after cases were identified in
those areas
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - C) Vaccinating in selected areas of
countries after cases were identified in those areas
The burden of disease is primarily communicable, maternal, neonatal and
nutritional in:
A) South Asia
B) Sub-Saharan Africa
C) The Middle East and North Africa
Solutions
An example of the recent geographic spread of a communicable disease
includes:
A) Smallpox
B) Cervical cancer
C) Chikungunya
D) Polio Right Ans - C) Chikungunya
Which example of a health issue would require the most intersectoral
collaboration to address?
A) Reduction of tobacco consumption
B) Childhood vaccination
C) Essential Surgery
D) Improving maternal care Right Ans - A) Reduction of tobacco
consumption
The best description below of the focus of public health is:
A) Achieving medical care for all
B) Reducing road traffic injuries
C) Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health through
organized community effort
D) Extending life expectancy Right Ans - C) Preventing disease, prolonging
life, and promoting physical health through organized community effort
Which statement least reflects a global health concern?
A) The application of public health to issues that transcend national
boundaries
B) The achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
C) Cooperative efforts needed to solve a critical public health problem
affecting many countries
D) Global standard setting on diagnostics and drugs Right Ans - B) The
achievement of greater health equity in an individual country
,Planetary health refers to:
A) An approach to public health that concerns animal health
B) An approach to public health that focuses on zoonotic disease
C) An approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of
human health, animal health, and the environment
D) An approach to public health that focuses on the environment Right Ans
- C) An approach to public health that focuses on the interconnectedness of
human health, animal health, and the environment
The Sustainable Development Goals
A) Include a range of goals and targets that relate to health
B) Focus on a healthy environment
C) Are all to be achieved by 2020
D) Say little about global health Right Ans - A) Include a range of goals and
targets that relate to health
Which of the following is an example of a public health approach?
A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
B) A physician counselling an individual patient on the need to exercise
C) A physician encouraging a family to vaccinate their children
D) A community health worker treating individual cases of a disease Right
Ans - A) A large-scale program to help a community to stay active
The only human disease ever eradicated was:
A) Rinderpest
B) Smallpox
C) Guinea worm
D) Hookworm Right Ans - B) Smallpox
Important progress in health has resulted from:
A) Improvements in hygiene, access to safe water, and access to safe
sanitation
,B) Improvements in technology, such as the dissemination of childhood
vaccines
C) Increases in people's level of education
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - D) All of these are correct
Examples of countries that in the last 50 years achieved substantially better
levels of population health than one might have predicted by their income
level, include:
A) Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands
B) The US
C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
D) Liberia and Sierra Leone Right Ans - C) Cuba, Costa Rica, and China
Which of these is a reason to enhance your knowledge of global health?
A) Communicable diseases do not respect boundaries
B) Many low- and middle-income countries face a set of similar challenges to
improving their health system
C) Some health issues are greater than any individual country can address
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - D) All of these are correct
The health status of a young child is linked with:
A) Physical growth of the child
B) Performance in school
C) Cognitive development of the child
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - D) All of these are correct
WHO defines health as:
A) A state of well-being
B) A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not just the
absence of infirmity or disease
C) The absence of infirmity
D) None of these are correct Right Ans - B) A state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being, not just the absence of infirmity or disease
Medicine is more focused than public health on:
, A) Individual curative care
B) The treatment of illness
C) The well-being of individual patients
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - D) All of these are correct
One Health refers to:
A) Public health efforts that cut across national boundaries
B) Public health efforts that focus on the connections between animal and
human health
C) Public health efforts that focus on the connections between the health of
the environment, animal health, and human health
D) Holistic efforts at promoting better health Right Ans - B) Public health
efforts that focus on the connections between animal and human health
The best example of a global health issue requiring cooperative action is:
A) A local maternal and child health program
B) The development of new vaccines for TB
C) Health system reform in a specific country
D) The financing of health care in Europe Right Ans - B) The development
of new vaccines for TB
One of the keys to smallpox eradication was:
A) Vaccinating everyone in each affected country
B) Vaccinating only the children in each country
C) Vaccinating in selected areas of countries after cases were identified in
those areas
D) All of these are correct Right Ans - C) Vaccinating in selected areas of
countries after cases were identified in those areas
The burden of disease is primarily communicable, maternal, neonatal and
nutritional in:
A) South Asia
B) Sub-Saharan Africa
C) The Middle East and North Africa
