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Public Health Test #1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Major eras in the history of the American public health system were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT: A. Intermittent epidemics throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. B. Edwin Chadwick's epidemiological investigations of choler...

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Public Health Test #1 Questions and Answers
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Major eras in the history of the American public health system were characterized by all of the following

EXCEPT:




A. Intermittent epidemics throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.


B. Edwin Chadwick's epidemiological investigations of cholera.


C. The development of state and local public health systems into the mid-20th century.


D. The movement into the provision of medical care services after about 1950. - ✔✔Answer: B


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 are not available for public health.


C. Public health professionals work only in the public sector.


D. Although they come from many professions and disciplines, their common bond is not one of a shared

body of knowledge or academic preparation, but a commitment to the goals of the improved population

health. - ✔✔Answer: D




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Which of these important public health figures from the 19th century advanced the argument that the

factors contributing to fatal diseases should be identified as the official causes of death?




A. Edwin Chadwick


B. Lemuel Shattuck


C. William Farr


D. John Snow - ✔✔Answer: C


Based on a quick examination of Internet web sites, which of these organizations is most closely affiliated

with local public health agencies across the U.S.?




A. NACCHO


B. ASTHO


C. APHA


D. CDC - ✔✔Answer: A


Based on a quick examination of Internet web sites, which of these federal health agencies places the

greatest emphasis on prevention?




A. Food and Drug Administration


B. Health Resources and Services Administration


C. American Public Health Association




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D. Centers for Disease Control - ✔✔Answer: D


In which form of justice are collective actions leading to the assumption of additional burdens often

necessary in order to assure the fair distribution of societal benefits?




A. Market justice


B. Judicial justice


C. Social justice


D. Individual justice - ✔✔Answer: C


As a result of legislation enacted by Congress, this agency was moved out of the US Treasury Department

and placed in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now the Department of Health and

Human Services). It was first established as the Marine Hospital Service in 1789.




A. World Health Organization


B. American Public Health Association


C. National Foundation---March of Dimes


D. US Public Health Service - ✔✔Answer: D


In 1900, the leading cause of death in the United States was which of the following conditions?"




A. tuberculosis


B. diphtheria




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