Schneider ASQZ

Chapter 1

1. True or False? Unless something unusual happens, like the outbreak of Cryptosporidium in the
Milwaukee water supply, people assume that they are basically safe.
Ans: True
Subject: Chapter 1

2. True or False? Even when public health scientists are certain they know all about the causes of
a problem and what should be done about it, a political decision is generally necessary before
action can be taken to solve it.
Ans: True
Subject: Chapter 1

3. True or False? As biomedical and environmental sciences have conquered many of the
diseases that killed people of previous generations, people in modern societies are dying of
diseases caused by their behavior and the social environment.
Ans: True
Subject: Chapter 1

Multiple Choice
4. In the mid-19th century, what was the single largest cause of death?
Ans: D
Subject: Chapter 1

5. The discovery of which of the following allowed medicine to gain the power to work miracles
of healing, leading to a period of rapidly growing influence?
Ans: B
Subject: Chapter 1
6. What type of prevention seeks to minimize the severity of the illness or the damage due to an
injury-causing event once the event has occurred?
Ans: 2
Subject: Chapter 1
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7. The mission of ___________ health is the fulfillment of society’s interest in ensuring the
conditions in which people can be healthy.
Ans: public
Subject: Chapter 1

8. As part of the ___________________ function, public health seeks to understand the medical
care system in an area of study generally referred to as health policy and management or health
administration, which also includes the administration and functioning of the public health
system.
Ans: assurance
Subject: Chapter 1

9. Concern about runaway costs, lack of access, and questionable quality of care has led to an
increasing interest in studying the medical care system and its effectiveness, efficiency, and
equity, leading to a science called health ________________ research.
Ans: services
Subject: Chapter 1

10. __________collects data that serves as diagnostic tools to inform experts on how healthy or
sick a society is and where its weaknesses are.
Ans: Statistics
Subject: Chapter 1

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Chapter 2
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1. According to Beauchamp, market ____________________ emphasizes individual

responsibility, minimal obligation to the common good, and the fundamental freedom to all
individuals to be left alone.
Ans: Justice
Subject: Chapter 2

2. The UCS report put pressure on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to promote
abstinence-only programs for preventing ____________ pregnancy.
Ans: teen
Subject: Chapter 2

3. And example of __________ is children and young people can be restricted in their behavior
on the basis that they are not yet mature enough to make considered judgments as to their own
best interests.
Ans: paternalism
Subject: Chapter 2

4. The _____________ omitted an entire climate change section from a major report rather than
compromise its credibility by misrepresenting the scientific consensus.
Ans: EPA
Subject: Chapter 2

True/False
5. True or False? In times of economic difficulty, people are often willing to pay short-term
costs in order to obtain a benefit in the long term.
Ans: False
Subject: Chapter 2
6. True or False? While the government cannot guarantee health and safety for each individual,
its role is to provide for maximum health and safety for the community as a whole.
Ans: True
Subject: Chapter 2

7. True or False? Public health measures such as sex education in schools and the provision of
contraceptive services are widely accepted by members of certain religious groups who believe
they discourage immoral behavior.
Ans: False
Subject: Chapter 2

Multiple Choice

8. Public health often arouses controversy on moral grounds, most often when it confronts what
type of issues?
Ans: C
Subject: Chapter 2

9. In 2003, what publication reported that the National Cancer Institute’s website contained
information suggesting that having an abortion increased a woman’s risk of breast cancer?
Ans: D
Subject: Chapter 2

10. The Bush administration especially sought to suppress information and to discredit scientific
evidence regarding which of the following issues?
Ans: D
Subject: Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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1. The Constitution, in the _____________________, includes among the fundamental purposes

of government, “to promote the general welfare.”
Ans: Preamble
Subject: Chapter 3

2. Congress removed the financial penalty for lack of motorcycle helmet laws in _________.
Ans: 1976
Subject: Chapter 3

3. As recently as the late 19th century, milk was commonly watered down, then doctored with
__________________ to make it look normal.
Ans: chalk
Subject: Chapter 3

4. ____________ discusses new infectious diseases that occur naturally as well as potential
bioterrorist threats.
Ans: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subject: Chapter 3

Multiple Choice

5. Which of the following is the nation’s leading spokesperson on matters of public health?
Ans: C
Subject: Chapter 3
6. The first published report that heralded the onset of the AIDS epidemic appeared in what
publication on June 4, 1981?
Ans: B
Subject: Chapter 3

7. What agency has often been attacked by Congress and often had its policies watered down by
the George W. Bush administration?
Ans: C
Subject: Chapter 3

True/False
8. True or False? Individual states have total flexibility in how to administer the Medicaid
program.
Ans: False
Subject: Chapter 3

9. True or False? Regulation of the food and drug industries has been difficult and controversial
since Massachusetts passed the first American pure-food law in 1784.
Ans: True
Subject: Chapter 3

10. True or False? Despite the lack of explicit constitutional authority, the federal government
has established a significant presence in public health.
Ans: True
Subject: Chapter 3