Question

Which of the following agencies, formerly independent, was incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security to lead emergency preparedness and response?

		NIH
		FEMA
		ASPR
		USPHS

Which of the following characteristics of tobacco in the US made it initially difficult to change behavior?

		A perception of smoking as an issue of personal choice/responsibility
		All of the above
		Corporate investment in targeted marketing to multiple audiences
		Tobacco industry-supported research designed to demonstrate low associated health risk
		Aggressive lobbying by the tobacco industry

Which of the following was originally developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to focus on chronic health conditions and stimulate health promotion and disease prevention interventions?

		APEXPH
		AGPALL
		PATCH
		MAPP

Assessing the efficacy of an intervention means answering the question “Is it worth it?”

True

False

What element of fiscal public health infrastructure is becoming more relevant to community service providers with the growth of value-based payment arrangements?

		Risk
		State and local funding
		Patients paying for services out of pocket
		Fee-for-service reimbursement

Answer 1

1.FEMA

:FEMA became part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of Department of Homeland Security, employing more than 2,600 full-time employees.( MARCH 2003)

2.ALL of the above.

3. Answer is PATCH

PATCH was developed in 1983 by the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in partnership with state and local health departments and community groups.

-provide a model to assist state and local public health agencies, in their partnerships with local communities, to plan, conduct, and evaluate health promotion and disease prevention programs

-serve as a mechanism to improve links both within communities and between communities and state health departments, universities, and other agencies and organizations.

-principles of community participation with the diagnostic steps of applied community-level epidemiology.

4.true

Efect of an intervention in real

5.Risk

The most notable difference with value-based contracts is exposure of physicians to performance risk, or utilization of unnecessary services.