Deck 3: Data for Public Health

Question 1

Although the United States Census is designed to collect information from all individuals who live in the country, the "long form" used in 2000 was sent to only a sample of all households for more in-depth information.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

If a registry relies on newly diagnosed individuals to self-enroll or on health care providers to report new cases, it is employing which of the following?

A) Active surveillance
B) Passive surveillance
C) Vital statistics
D) Adverse events reporting

Answer 2

Passive surveillance

Question 3

Rare diseases and diseases that cannot be prevented are poor candidates for public health surveillance.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of the following is the best scenario for a public health surveillance system to be established?

A) The disease is very rare.
B) There is little public interest in a topic and it is not preventable.
C) The disease is highly contagious and mortality rate is high, particularly among children, causing great public concern.
D) The disease is not contagious and it is very expensive to treat.

Question 5

Which of the following systems was established to follow the health of individuals exposed to the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001?

A) A health registry
B) A dedicated version of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
C) A verbal autopsy system
D) An adverse events reporting system

Question 6

What is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data for public health activities?

A) Surveillance
B) Vital statistics
C) A registry
D) An adverse event

Question 7

Communicability is considered when establishing a surveillance system because surveillance data potentially can be used to stop the spread of disease.

Question 8

Public opinion is not important in making decisions about surveillance topics; public health professionals and the government make all decisions about what issues will be assessed via surveillance systems.

Question 9

Because surveillance data change regularly, they are not commonly used to assess trends in diseases or health behaviors over time.

Question 10

Registries can only be created based on health outcomes like cancer and not on exposures.

Question 11

Legal certifications of births and deaths are known as:

A) Surveillance
B) Vital statistics
C) Registries
D) Adverse events

Question 12

What is a verbal autopsy?

A) A verbal recording of the cause of death used for legal reasons.
B) A discussion of the causes of death given to a family member by a health care provider.
C) An alternative method of collecting information about the cause of death in a developing nation where death certificates are not common.
D) A cultural device used to pass down information about deaths to younger generations.

Question 13

The primary method of tracking infectious disease in the United States is through a national registry based on the list of notifiable diseases.

Question 14

Which of the following data systems provides information about a state based on a representative sample of non-institutionalized adults age 18 and older?

A) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System BRFSS)
B) United States Census
C) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System YRBSS)
D) Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results SEER)

Question 15

An) is a data source that seeks to identify all individuals with a particular exposure or health outcome in a given population.

A) Surveillance system
B) Vital statistics system
C) Registry
D) Adverse events reporting system

Question 16

In the United States there are two separate adverse event reporting systems for vaccines and for all other approved medications.

Question 17

Using information from death certificates, it is possible to assess the trends in lung cancer mortality by gender in the United States.

Question 18

Which of the following statements is true about the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System VAERS)?

A) Only health care providers who administer a vaccine to a patient can report an adverse event associated with that vaccine.
B) The FDA investigates all reported adverse events and only includes those confirmed to be associated with the vaccine itself in the VAERS system.
C) Health care providers or individuals can enter data into the VAERS system and associations are not necessarily causal.
D) VAERS is operated within each state by the state's health department.

Question 19

Which of the following is a universal surveillance system one that includes all the members of a population)?

A) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System BRFSS)
B) United States Census
C) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System YRBSS)
D) Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results SEER)

Question 20

Birth certificates can be used in public health to examine factors about birth and the birth experience like birth weight and delivery complications, but it does not assess factors like mother's smoking status during pregnancy or whether the mother received prenatal care.