Exam 3: Public Health Data and Communications

A clinician recommending surgery and discussing with the patient the steps that will occur as well as the potential harms and benefits, then asking the patient to sign permission to perform surgery, is an example of which of the following decision-making approaches?

A clinician drawing blood to determine whether or not a patient has diabetes, but deciding not to worry the patient with the results unless his or her blood sugar level is elevated, is an example of which of the following decision-making approaches?

Which of the following distinguishes DALYs from HALEs?

Which of the following types of data is illustrated by this example: A sample of adolescents is questioned about their cigarette-smoking behavior?

Data collected on which of the following are considered vital statistics?

Which of the following types of data is illustrated by this example: Death certificates are used as the basis for measuring the number of deaths and the probability of death among infants?

A clinician explaining the nature of the patient's illness, outlining the potential treatments, and explaining the positive and negative feature of each potential treatment, but not making a recommendation, is an example of which of the following decision-making approaches?

Which of the following types of data is illustrated by this example: Mad cow disease is diagnosed in a cow and the entire herd is subsequently slaughtered?

Which of the following is an important feature of a high-quality website?