Deck 5: Information Technology in Public Health

Question 1

On March 11,2011,a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan,followed by a ________with 30-foot waves.

Answer 1

tsunami

Question 2

A/An _______________ is a global outbreak of disease to which every individual in the world is susceptible.

A)epidemic
B)pandemic
C)Both A and B
D)None of the above

Answer 2

pandemic

Question 3

One concrete step to slow global warming (climate change)is cutting emissions of _____.

A)NaCl
B)H₂0
C)C0₂
D)None of the above

Answer 3

C0₂

Question 4

______________________________ is a microbiology information system developed at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts.It is used to monitor antibacterial resistance.

Question 5

___________________ is already having a devastating effect on the earth and is affecting agricultural production in some places.

Question 6

Between 2011 and 2015,an international program to combat AIDS aims to advance global progress in achieving country set targets for universal access to HIV prevention,treatment,care and support and to halt and reverse the spread of HIV.".It is called ________________.

A)UNAIDS
B)LIFESAVE
C)UNSAVE
D)None of the above

Question 7

_______________ supports public health practice and research with information technology.

A)Medical informatics
B)Health care informatics
C)Public health informatics
D)None of the above

Question 8

____________________ uses "health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak."

A)Counting
B)Syndromic surveillance
C)Computer surveillance
D)None of the above

Question 9

________________ is a microbiology information system developed at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts.

A)WHONET
B)WHATNOT
C)WHOBIO
D)None of the above

Question 10

A program called _____________ is used to model flu.

A)Socrates
B)MIDAS
C)AESOP
D)None of the above

Question 11

Some of the effects of global warming (climate change)are ________________.

A)more intense storms and heat waves
B)there are no effects
C)drought in the developing world
D)Both A and C

Question 12

Public health is affected by social factors such as poverty and social __________________.

A)inequality
B)style
C)Both A and B
D)None of the above

Question 13

Hurricane __________________ flooded New Orleans both because it was a "monster hurricane" and because the levees failed.

Question 14

Computers can create what-if scenarios or ________________ of what would happen to an infectious disease if something else happened (e.g. ,if air travel increased/decreased or the temperature rose or fell;if there was an adequate supply of antiviral drugs,if a vaccine existed or did not exist).

A)let us pretend
B)spreadsheets
C)simulations
D)None of the above

Question 15

Information technology can help infection control practitioners in the task of __________________.

A)surveillance
B)outbreak monitoring
C)reporting
D)All of the above

Question 16

In the early twentieth century,epidemic ____________________ struck in New York for the first time.

Question 17

_________________ are organized "system[s] for the collection,storage,retrieval,analysis,and dissemination of information" on people with a disease,a predisposition toward a disease,and an exposure to anything thought to cause ill health.

A)Registries
B)Offices
C)Bureaus
D)None of the above

Question 18

_____________________ models are the programs that create the simulations.

A)What-if
B)Computational
C)Computer
D)Disease

Question 19

A/An ________________ is "an excess in the number of cases of a given health problem...."

A)pandemic
B)epidemic
C)small outbreak
D)outbreak

Question 20

__________________ refers to "the study of diseases in populations by collecting and analyzing statistical data."

A)Pandemic
B)Epidemic
C)Epidemiology
D)None of the above

Question 21

_________________________ informatics integrates "health-related data on all levels,such as molecule,cell,tissue,organ,people and the entire population."

Question 22

______________________ surveillance can be used for example in shelters where there are no medical personnel;people can look out for signs and symptoms (for instance diarrhea)and report them.

Question 23

WHO stands for ______________________________.

Question 24

On April 20,2010,an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 human beings.Among the first effects was the spill of tens of thousands of barrels of ______ a day into the Gulf effectively polluting the water,damaging the shoreline,and killing wildlife.

Question 25

____________________ attacks the immune system,leading to susceptibility to opportunistic infection.

Question 26

Bacterial resistance happens even without antibiotics,but the use and abuse of these drugs exacerbates the resistance and leads to the development of ____________.

Question 27

The ________________________________ (part of the Public Health Information Network)will promote "integrated surveillance systems that can transfer ...public health,laboratory and clinical data ...over the Internet." This would be a national electronic surveillance system.

Question 28

_____________________ first appeared in the 1930s.It is a form of encephalitis or brain inflammation.

Question 29

_________ (a deadly bacterium resistant to antibiotics)can cause pneumonia,bloodstream infections,and infections in wounds and surgical sites.It appears in hospitals and other health care settings.(Use the abbreviation in your answer)

Question 30

_____________________________________ is a staph infection resistant to many antibiotics.It appeared in Europe in the 1960s,which coincides with the first widespread use of antibiotics.A recent study "confirm[s] that the evolution of resistant strains and their spread are primarily driven by antibiotic use." (Use the abbreviation in your answer)