IDSR TRAINING kAVANGO EAST PRE TEST

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1. Public Health Surveillance is defined as:

(a) Ongoing systematic identification, collection, collation, analysis, and interpretation of disease occurrence and public health event data to take timely and robust action.

(b) The process of data collection, analysis and storing at health facilities

(d) Ongoing systematic identification, collection, collation, analysis, and interpretation of disease occurrence and public health event data

(e) Combination of a, b, c and d above

(f) All the above

(g) None of the above

The core functions of Intergrated Disease surveillance and response (IDSR) include all of the following except:

(a) Identify cases and events

(b) Report suspected cases, conditions or events to the next level for action

(d) Investigate and confirm suspected cases, outbreaks or events

(e) Prepare to respond to public health events

(f) Respond to public health events

(g) Communicate risk and provide feedback to health workers and the community

(h) Monitor, Supervise, Evaluate and improve the system.

(i) Train health staff in case management

3. Unlike indicator-based surveillance, event-based surveillance is not based on the routine monitoring of indicators and automated thresholds for action but rather on the screening of all available information to detect any event happening in the community (unusual disease or deaths in humans or animals, unusual or clustering of cases, events/conditions in the community). Is this statement:

True

False

4. The IDSR strategy includes ALL of the following EXCEPT:

(a) It was adopted by WHO AFRO member states in September 1998 as the approach for improving public health surveillance and response for priority diseases, conditions and events at community, health facility, district and national level

(b) IDSR is a strategy for coordinating and integrating surveillance activities by focusing on the surveillance, laboratory and response functions of the disease surveillance system at all levels

(d) Separate Surveillance systems are established for every disease in the health system

(e) IDSR promotes rational and efficient use of resources by integrating and streamlining common surveillance activities and functions

(f) The IDSR strategy makes surveillance and laboratory data more usable, help public health managers and decision-makers improve detection and response to the leading causes of illness, death and disability in African countries

5. Which of the following statements about the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 is True or False: Instructions: Write “T” against the statement if it TRUE or “F” if it is FALSE

	True	False
(a) Prevent, protect against, control and provide public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are relevant and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade
(b) IHR (2005) is a binding and legal instrument
(c) IDSR and IHR share common functions such as detection, reporting, confirmation, verification, notification, reporting and timely response.
(d) IHR (2005) is therefore not a separate surveillance system but rather requires countries to put in place a “sensitive, reliable and flexible surveillance system that meets international standards

6. In the health system diseases, conditions, and events can come to the attention of the health worker through all of the following means: True or False Instructions: Write “T” against the statement if it TRUE or “F” if it is FALSE

	True	False
(a) A person falls ill and seeks treatment from a health facility
(b) High rate of hospital admission for the same diseases or symptoms
(c) Community members report unusual events occurrences at local levels such as a cluster of deaths
(d) Health staff conduct routine record reviews
(e) Health staff conduct routine record reviews of the laboratory register and observe recorded confirmed cases of priority diseases such as yellow fever or cholera
(f) Radio, television, newspapers, or social media (WhatsApp, Facebook, etc.) report a rumour of rare or unexplained events in the area with potential exposure for humans

7. On the 17th of January 2010 at 3:00 am, a 23-year-old woman named Lambda died from severe acute respiratory illness. Her death occurred within 48 hours of admission to a private hospital. The country, Ringah, had been experiencing an avian influenza outbreak among poultry. So the district team was asked to investigate Lambda’s death. What are the most appropriate specimen(s) that should be collected to confirm the diagnosis?

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