Exam 1: Introduction to Public Health Preparedness

A Trust for America's Health (TFAH) report refers to which of the following as requiring the basic functions of a public health system such as epidemiology, laboratory capacity, and event-based surveillance capacity?

Name at least three components of public health and community preparedness?

In December 2006, Congress passed what piece of legislation, which reauthorized and built upon the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act?

Homeland security is about preventing attacks on the United States and minimizing damage through appropriate preparations and rapid recovery.

What is a public health emergency?

All U.S. citizens want to be protected from threats and support the government in doing so, regardless of whether or not their personal freedoms and liberties are retained.

How many categories of public health emergencies are there?

Defense is the protection of U.S. sovereignty, territory, domestic population, and critical defense infrastructure against external threats or aggression.

The most extreme position regarding national security is that it does not matter if the threat to security comes from within or from outside of the nation.

The mission of which of the following is to protect communities by coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters?