Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Electronic access level (individual data vs. aggregated) as well as privacy/confidentiality issues all pertain to the _____ of the data.
Answer Options:
nature and purpose
availability
complexity
limitations
Answer: nature and purpose
Question: The Nationally Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System is:
Answer Options:
Mandated and defined by law.
Monitors diseases that are infectious and communicable.
Monitors diseases that may endanger a population.
Both B and C.
All of the Above
Answer: Both B and C.
Question: Save the Children listed the top three places to become a mother in 2000 as:
Answer Options:
Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.
Yemen, Chad, and Niger.
Sweden, the United States and Canada.
Sweden, Denmark, and the United States.
Answer: Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.
Question: Which of the following is true about de-identified data?
Answer Options:
A. This is the type of data that researchers can readily access in public datasets such as SEER or NHANES.
B. This type of data contains individual identifiers such as names, street addresses and social security numbers.
C. This type of data is considered protected health information under HIPAA and is suppressed so as to ensure an individual’s confidentiality and privacy.
A and C only
All of the above
Answer: A and C only
Question: The International Tuberculosis Campaign:
Answer Options:
Pioneered the “health education technique of ‘teach one teach one'”
Produced research findings from mass vaccination campaigns in widely disparate geographic areas and cultures
Developed practical methods of comparing vaccines, produced in different laboratories and determining the effects of duration and temperature on vaccine storage.
All of these.
Answer: All of these.
Question: Publicity refers to the accuracy, as opposed to the precision, of the data in question. (Note: you may need to refer to earlier lecture notes to answer this.)
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The first drug to be shown to prolong the life of persons with HIV was:
Answer Options:
AZT
ACT
Pneumocystis vaccine
None of these
Answer: AZT
Question: When discussing demographic data, “nativity” refers to place of origin or birth of an individual.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: In addition to population and housing data, the U.S. Decennial Census also collects and reports mortality data on health outcomes such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Violence against women is widespread, but not universal. The ecological model used by researchers to explain the phenomenon includes:
Answer Options:
Ten economic and interdependent circles.
Fear of STIs and HIV.
Personal, situational, and socio-cultural factors.
Fetal and neonatal outcomes.
Answer: Personal, situational, and socio-cultural factors.
Question: The first clinical trial to show efficacy at treating TB among humans was for:
Answer Options:
Salomonidie drugs
“Fresh air” at the Adirondacks Cottage Sanitarium
Streptomycin
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
Answer: Streptomycin
Question: In 1990, the largest numbers of deaths from tuberculosis occurred in:
Answer Options:
China
South-East Asia
Africa
India
Answer: South-East Asia
Question: Which of the following best describes the type of study and the correct use of the screening test discussed in the preceding questions?
Answer Options:
Use the screening test on a low-risk population, which is likely to have a lower prevalence of undiagnosed disease.
Use the screening test on a higher-risk population, which is likely to have a higher prevalence of undiagnosed disease.
Administer the screening test several times on all of the students.
None of the above.
Answer: Use the screening test on a higher-risk population, which is likely to have a higher prevalence of undiagnosed disease.
Question: Violence against women is common in many societies because:
Answer Options:
Women are considered property.
Women are considered to bring it upon themselves.
Rape and gang rape are used as a means of social control.
Women are commodities in the forced labor and sex trades.
All of the above.
Answer: All of the above.