Deck 4: Sources of Public Health Data

Question 1

Which of the following, mandated by the National Health Survey Act of 1956, is currently the principal source of information on the health of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States?

A) National Survey of Family Growth
B) National Health Interview Survey
C) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
D) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Answer 1

National Health Interview Survey

Question 2

Which survey includes both a home interview and health tests done in a mobile examination center?

A) National Survey of Family Growth
B) National Health Interview Survey
C) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
D) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Answer 2

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Question 3

Specialists, such as anesthesiologists, pathologists, and radiologists are excluded from reporting data for which health care survey?

A) National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
B) National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
C) National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS)
D) National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)

Answer 3

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)

Question 4

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) defines which type of disease as "one for which regular, frequent, and timely information regarding individual cases is considered necessary for the prevention and control of the disease"?

A) Infectious disease
B) Nosocomial disease
C) Notifiable disease
D) Noncommunicable disease

Question 5

Since 1985, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected information of the occurrence of cases of which disease from all 50 states; the District of Columbia; and U.S. dependencies, possessions, and independent associated countries (such as Puerto Rico)?

A) HIV
B) Pneumonia
C) Influenza
D) Tuberculosis

Question 6

Vaccination data on vaccinations such as the human papillomavirus, whooping cough, and meningococcal vaccines are collected through the use of which survey?

A) National Immunization Survey
B) National Immunization Survey-Teen
C) National Health Interview Survey
D) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Question 7

The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program collects data based on a mandate by which piece of legislation?

A) The National Cancer Act
B) The National Health Survey Act of 1956
C) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
D) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Question 8

Generally, the most current available data in the United States lags a year or two behind the present.

Question 9

Anytime that the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is revised, a number of artifactual changes in the mortality statistics typically occur.

Question 10

Most states require reporting fetal deaths that occur at 12 or more weeks of gestational age.

Question 11

In 1998, Congress passed the Birth Defects Prevention Act, which authorized which agency to collect, analyze, and make available data on birth defects; operate regional centers for applied epidemiological research on the prevention of birth defects; and educate the public about the prevention of birth defects?

A) National Institutes of Health
B) World Health Organization
C) U.S. Food and Drug Administration
D) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 12

The Birth Defects Monitoring Program (BDPM) was launched in part in response to the epidemic of which type of defects among children whose mothers had taken the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy in the 1960s?

A) Microencephaly
B) Limb reduction
C) Spina bifida
D) Tetralogy of Fallot

Question 13

With about 400,000 interviews being conducted annually, which of the following is one of the largest continuous telephone surveys in the world?

A) National Survey of Family Growth
B) National Health Interview Survey
C) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
D) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Question 14

Which annual survey is based on a national sample of visits to the emergency and outpatient departments of noninstitutionalized general and short-stay hospitals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia?

A) National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
B) National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
C) National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS)
D) National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)

Question 15

The purpose of which survey is to describe national patterns of healthcare delivery across treatment settings using a new sample of hospitals and a sample of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers?

A) National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
B) National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
C) National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS)
D) National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)

Question 16

Which of the following national surveys also collects information on immunizations among U.S. children and adults?

A) National Survey of Family Growth
B) National Hospital Care Survey
C) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
D) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Question 17

Data from which survey are used to monitor trends in illness and disability and to track progress toward achieving national health objectives?

A) National Survey of Family Growth
B) National Health Interview Survey
C) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
D) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Question 18

There is a wealth of easily accessible information on the health status of the U.S. population.

Question 19

Because the Demographic Yearbook is intended for a broad audience, health data are reprinted for the World Health Statistics to make them more readily accessible to medical and public health professionals.

Question 20

To generate national mortality statistics, "every death is attributed to one underlying condition, based on information reported on the death certificate and utilizing the international rules."