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A county public health department has prepared the annual operating budget for its childhood vaccination program. It forecasts that 90,000 children will be vaccinated, requiring a total of 48,000 hours of nursing labor at an average cost of $25 per hour and 100,000 doses of vaccination at an average...

Which is the most essential growing element for establishing turf? correct answer: Watering What is the primary function of the stem? correct answer: provide support for the leaves and stems What method of controlling weeds should only be used when all others methods fail? correct answer: h...

The epidemiological triangle (triad) describes the occurrence of disease as an interaction between what three factors? 1) Person, place and time 2) Host, agent and environment 3) Person, environment and immunity 4) Host, agent and exposure correct answer: (2) The epidemiological triad refer...

descriptive statistics process of describing data. most often performed on a small subset of a population, known as a sample inferential statistics allows researchers to draw conclusions on the population-based on information collected from the sample. builds on descriptive statistics 1-sa...

Which of the following id a formula for point prevalence of a disease? correct answer: # of current cases / # of people in a population Which of the following models explains the relationship between socioeconomic status and health by illustrating that health status and social standing are linke...

The lengths of stay for six patients were 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, and 16 days. Which is (are) the best measure(s) to summarize these data? A) Mean B) Median C) Median and SD D) Mean and SD E) Median and Range correct answer: E) Median and Range An epidemiologist attempts to predict the weight of a...

Public Health professionals have to learn to work effectively with the media. Public health is potentially appealing for the popular press because: 1. its stories have urgency, drama and novelty. 2. it is a source rich in detail, facts and figures. 3. scientists and journalists have a long histor...

autonomy correct answer: •Free from external influence over independent decision-making. PH scenarios that defy autonomy: -Mandatory vaccination -Isolation - Separation of an infected person -Quarantine - Detention of healthy persons exposed to contagious disease 4th Amendment correct ans...

What are the two types of measure that can be used to assess the disease burden in a population? correct answer: Incidence and prevalence What is a measure of the number of new cases of a disease? Pre-existing cases of the disease are not counted. correct answer: Incidence What is the number...

Biostatistics includes a set of principles and methods which allow us to ______, _______ and ______ important public health problems. correct answer: assess, analyze and solve The application of biostatistics involves what? correct answer: The application of biostatistics involves developing cl...

The introduction of sewage into a stream is most likely to cause a measurable change in which of the following ways? increase in biochemical oxygen demand Which of the following is a priority air pollutant regulated by the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)? ozone A federal law is pa...

a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity correct answer: Health Fill in the blanks: Health is a ____________, not the _______________ and is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capa...

Health Belief Model definition correct answer: health behavior is determined by perception of the threat of a health problem, appraisal of the recommended behavior to prevent the problem, and cue to action. Focuses on individual beliefs and determinants of health Health belief model parts cor...

Which of the following estimates of an odds ratio most strongly suggests a computational error? 1) 7.8 2) 1.2 3) -0.9 4) 20.9 correct answer: 3) -0.9 An odds ratio of -0.9 most strongly indicates a computational error because an odds ratio is calculated using probabilities, which cannot be n...