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Public Health Proficiency Quiz

Test your knowledge and understanding of essential public health concepts. This engaging quiz covers a wide range of topics related to health systems, determinants of health, and public health achievements.

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The proximal level determinants of health include:

Provision of and access to health services; alcohol and tobacco use; sufficient quality of food and water

Effective public health policy; income/ wealth; health education

Political environment; religion; social security

All of the above answers are correct

Who is the author of the following definition of public health: “organised community effort to address the public interest in health by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health”:

C.E.A. Winslow

Institute of Medicine (IOM)

D.Acheson

R.Beaglehole

What belongs to ten great public health achievements worldwide in the period of 2001-2010, according to CDC:

Reductions in child mortality; vaccine preventable diseases; access to safe water and sanitation

Malaria prevention and control; prevention and control of HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis control

Control of neglected tropical disease; tobacco control; increased awareness and response for improving global road safety

All the above answers

Human Development Index (HDI) consists of the following components:

Longevity; education; income

Infant mortality rate; longevity; income

Total fertility rate; education; life satisfaction

None of the above

The features of Beveridge model of health care systems:

The source of founding in compulsory health insurance; earmarked premium paid by employers and employees

Universal access to health care for all citizens based on residency

Predominantly public providers and governmental ownership

Correct answers B and C

Which European countries health care systems are based on Bismarck model:

Austria, France, Germany

UK, Denmark, Norway

Italy, Spain, Portugal

Correct answers A and C

Identify concerns in countries which health care systems are based on Beveridge model:

Due to demographic changes, the system needs to support a steadily increasing number of retirees who no longer pay into the system

Demographic changes are leading to increased burden on tax revenues, both quantitative (increased number of old people) and qualitative (more expensive healthcare services and technology)

Financial cutbacks by companies, caused by current economic crises, leading to a steep climb in the unemployment rate, and, as a result, fever employees who contribute

Correct answers A and C

Choose the correct statement regarding Polish health care system:

The structure and organisation of Polish health care system has experienced significant changes since 1999. It shifted from a centralised state financed system with a national health service apparatus to a decentralised mandatory health insurance system

Since 2005, the stewardship, management and financing functions are shared between ✓ National Health Fund (NHF), Ministry of Health and territorial self-government administration

The overall responsibility for the health care organisation, in which resources are allocated and health care planned, belongs to the Ministry of Health

All above are correct

Choose the correct statement regarding Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI):

Six subdisciplines are taken into calculation of the index: patient rights and information; waiting times for treatment; outcomes; range and reach of services provided; prevention; and pharmaceuticals

The maximum number of points is 1000, while the minimum possible score is 333

The highest ranked countries in 2018 were Switzerland, the Netherlands and Norway

All of the above

Health 2020 policy target 1 has three quantifications:

Reduction of premature mortality from major NCDs; elimination of vaccine-preventable diseases; reduction of mortality from external causes

Increase in life expectancy; reduction in the gaps in health status associated with social determinants; reduction of mortality from external causes

Life satisfaction; infant mortality; social support

None of the above

The total score of 8 points obtained on the Fagestrom Test for Nicotine Dependence means:

Low nicotine dependence

Moderate nicotine dependence

High nicotine dependence

Very high nicotine dependence

One of the health indicators which “measures how long, on average, people would live based on a given set of age-specific death rates” is:

Healthy Life Years (HLY)

Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY)

Life expectancy at birth

None of the above

The essential sources of health-related information include:

A decennial censur

Continuous monitoring of births and deaths with certification of cause of death

Surveillance and response system focused on epidemic and vaccine-preventable diseases as well as on emerging diseases

All of the above

What belong to the non-computer based physical data processing systems of hospital information system:

Telephones, pagers

Database servers

Personal computers and printers

None of the above

One of four major categories of workplace health programs, health-related policies, can be defined as:

Opportunities available to employees at the workplace or through outside organisations to begin, change or maintain health behaviours

Formal or informal written statements that are designed to protect or promote employee health. They affect large groups of employees simultaneously

Part of an overall compensation package including health insurance coverage and other services or discounts regarding health

Physical factors at and nearby the workplace that help protect and enhance employee health

General Practitioner is the health insurance physician entitles to provide the following services for patients:

Diagnostics, including laboratory tests

Referrals to specialist health care services in outpatient clinic

Referrals to hospital treatment

All above are correct

Definition of Equality of Health by prof. Margaret Whitehead (1992):

The presence of differences in health which are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair and unjust

The lack of differences in health which are unnecessary, avoidable, unfair and unjust

Situation in which majority of a country citizens is in good health status

All above are false

Indicate the correct sentence:

The equality in taking advantage of health care in EU is the fundamental right of citizens a given country

Everyone who needs the medical care should be treated equally, irrespective of income, race or special position

All above are correct

All above are false

Indicate the correct sentence due to expenditures for patients with chronic diseases:

70% of expenditures regarding patients with chronic diseases devoted to prevention could un enable to avoid the total sum of money spent for these patients

The expenditures for prevention activities do not have a significant influence on curative medicine

From the Public Health point of view, we should take into consideration both: Medical cost and loss of economic productivity

All above are false

Well documented and modifiable risk factors of first ischemic stroke are:

Smoking

Family history of stroke

Alcohol

Hyperhomocysteinemia

The American Academy of Family Physicians recommends against routine screening for carotid artery stenosis in adult population, which means it is:

"A" recommendation

"B" recommendation

"C" recommendation

"D" recommendation

Basic models of financing medical staff in healthcare:

Salary, Capitation, fee for service

Contract, capitalism, fundholding

All above are correct

All above are false

Indicate the correct sentence:

Global Domestic Product has no impact on the public expenditures on health

Value of percentage of Global Domestic Product has an impact on the public expenditures on health

Capitation and fee of service are not motivating systems for better quality of service

All above are false

Division of National Healthcare budget:

60% for salaries, 40% for accommodation and medicines

40% for salaries, 60% for accommodation and medicines

50% for salaries, 25% for accommodation and 25% for medicines

All above are false

Medical certification, formulated by a physician, in a form of a medical opinion or certificate based on an evaluation of a patient’s health state, can be issues on the request of:

That person (the patient)

The relevant institution entitled to such a request (insurance company, working place)

All above are correct

All above are false

Medical opinions/ certificates may be supplemented with various conclusions or opinions, resulting from this evaluation, e.g.:

Temporary disability to work, damage to one’s health

Inability to cope on one’s own, granting disability pension

All above are correct

All above are false

Medical opinions and certificates should:

Be based on up-to-date state of medical knowledge or grounded on relevant documentation

Be in accordance with the principles of medical deontology

All above are correct

All above are false

Medical opinions/ certificates shall not be influenced by:

Social and informal connections

Gaining profits or benefits by a physician

All above are correct

All above are false

Elements of medical opinion:

Formal part, descriptive part and part including proper expert medical opinion with a reply to question(s) asked completed with their justifications

Case description and medical conclusions

Way of treatment and medical prognosis

All above are false

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