Deck 23: Public Health Social Work

Question 1

How does this text describe the approach of public health social work?

A) Contemporary, person-in-environment, integrated approach
B) Trans-disciplinary, integrated, problem-solving approach
C) Preventative, contemporary, integrated approach
D) Contemporary, integrated, trans-disciplinary approach

Answer 1

Contemporary, integrated, trans-disciplinary approach

Question 2

What are the three common goals for social work and public health in meeting the needs of society at-large?

A) To improve care, protection, and services
B) To improve health care for the underserved, uninsured, and at-risk groups
C) To improve health, welfare, and social well-being
D) To improve access, care, and health

Answer 2

To improve health, welfare, and social well-being

Question 3

What was the purpose of health care reform?

A) To respond to the root causes of genetic and environmental exposures
B) To treat illnesses and to reduce health disparities through prevention
C) To increase access to health care and insurance
D) To provide a patient care act and 10 benefit services

Answer 3

To treat illnesses and to reduce health disparities through prevention

Question 4

What are the two social work theoretical approaches often used in public health?

A) Resilience and strengths-based
B) Strengths-based and empowerment
C) Ecological and resilience
D) Person-in-environment and systems

Question 5

Unlike social workers, what approach do public health workers use to understand the health of the community and to gain an awareness of an individual's psychosocial experiences of health?

A) Community awareness
B) Program evaluation
C) Epidemiology
D) Risk reduction

Question 6

What was the result of direct lobbying to Congress and to the state legislature by activist Dorothea Dix in the 1940s?

A) American Mental Asylum
B) Affordable Care Act
C) Ten benefits for health insurance
D) More opportunities for social work

Question 7

Which movement was able to propel the work of activists such as Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, and Lillian Wald?

A) Affordable Care Act
B) Healthy People 2020
C) Emancipation of Slavery Act
D) Civil Rights Movement

Question 8

What bureau was created by the U.S. government to meet the needs of children in 1912?

A) American Mental Asylum
B) Federal Children's Bureau
C) Healthy People 2020
D) Child Protective Services

Question 9

What was the primary benefit to uninsured Americans following the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?

A) Access to health care for uninsured Americans
B) Access to financing for uninsured Americans
C) Disease prevention and clinical care
D) Health care reform

Question 10

What is the new social work education practice that responds to power differentials and provides opportunities for partnership practice through collaboration?

A) MSW/MPH
B) E-learning across disciplines
C) Collaboration
D) Interprofessional education

Question 11

The changing climate of social work involves the increased focus on disease prevention and the need to engage communities.

Question 12

The root cause of health disparities and public health concerns can be attributed to genetic predisposition and environmental exposures.

Question 13

Epidemiology is an approach used to understand only physical health and does not consider the person's psychosocial influence.

Question 14

Public health social workers practice at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels using epidemiology and geographic information systems as their primary tools in the field.

Question 15

Dr. John Snow was known for his work on Ebola outbreak.

Question 16

A shift in public health occurred in the 1980s as a result of new diseases like AIDS.

Question 17

The Roadmap for Health was called Healthy People 2020 and offers opportunities for social workers to engage in the promotion of access to health, health education, and programs for quality of life and well-being.

Question 18

One of the 10 essential benefits of the Affordable Care Act is rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices.

Question 19

The Affordable Care Act expanded coverage to the uninsured, advocated for insurance reform, and implemented change in financing and delivery of care.

Question 20

According to the 10 Essential Health Benefits, what are the three ways social workers are to use case management?
Case management is intended to be used by social workers to seek, plan, and monitor client services.

Question 21

What are the three primary reasons that a shift can be expected in the health care delivery system?
A shift can be expected in the health care delivery system as a result of: 1) the expansion of Medicaid, 2) individual mandate, and 3) the health insurance marketplace.

Question 22

What are two ways that the Affordable Care Act has created more opportunities for social work in education and health?
Social work has been able to get access to more opportunities because of the Affordable Care Act through the increase in prospective employment and the growth in the field for varied jobs in the field of health and health care. Interprofessional education has also created a platform for new partnerships and collaboration.

Question 23

Identify and describe three purposes that social work and public health have in common.

Question 24

Explain the Healthy People 2020 plan and how social workers can apply this to practice.

Question 25

Identify one social worker who advocated for policy change, and describe the institution that resulted from their work and the client population for which the institution was created.