Ch. 6: Public Health

Question 0

The intentional or unintentional damage to a person resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy is:

Answer 0

Injury

Question 1

The science and practice of protecting and improving the health of a community through the use of preventive medicine is known as:

Answer 1

Public health

Question 2

What role does EMS have in public health when providing health care screenings and vaccinations, providing health education, and targeting high-risk populations in an effort to ensure that they are receiving needed medical care?

Answer 2

Health promotion

Question 3

What is NOT a category within public health laws?

Answer 3

Laws that deal with the incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations

Question 4

In order to link its EMS and public health systems, a community must have what in place?

Answer 4

Stakeholders having a role in the planning process

Question 5

What is NOT a category of intentional injury?

Answer 5

accident

Question 6

Epidemiologically speaking, an ongoing process that determines the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of activities related to public health initiatives is called:

Answer 6

evaluation

Question 7

What is an example of how EMS providers can be involved in community injury prevention?

Answer 7

Participating in a high school drunk driving crash scenario

Question 8

When developing and measuring the success of prevention programs, each EMS agency should Not contribute data to which agency?

Answer 8

international

Question 9

The guidelines of ________ outlines how employers and employees share responsibility for ensuring that standard precautions are used to assist in preventing contamination from blood and other bodily fluids.

Answer 9

OSHA

Question 10

What tends to be the first body part that is injured in a pediatric patient during a motor vehicle collision?

Answer 10

head

Question 11

What is the biggest preventable injury in the geriatric population?`

Answer 11

falls

Question 12

What can lead to a medication-related illness/injury?

Answer 12

Taking only 7 out of 10 prescribed antibiotic pills

Question 13

A hazardous or potentially hazardous situation that puts people in danger of sustaining injury best defines what?

Answer 13

injury risk

Question 14

What is one of the components that must be in place for EMS and public health to work together?

Answer 14

Strong medical oversight