Health Informatics an Interprofessional Approach 1st Edition By Nelson Staggers
Health Informatics an Interprofessional Approach 1st Edition By Nelson Staggers
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Chapter 11: Public Health Informatics
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
MULTIPLE CHOICE
| a. | Direct clinical services |
| b. | Disease outbreak management |
| c. | Bariatric surgery because obesity is a national public health problem |
| d. | Rat and mosquito abatement |
ANS: C
Although obesity is a national public health problem, public health does not provide surgical services. Surgical services are typically provided in the acute care or outpatient care settings. The other responses are activities of public health.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand REF: pp. 179-180
| a. | Public health is focused on the prevention and health of populations before they are ill. |
| b. | Public health is focused on one individual at a time to ensure the best possible outcome. |
| c. | The health of a community is measured by the use of sophisticated technologies like MRIs. |
| d. | Public health is focused on one family at a time to ensure the best possible outcome. |
ANS: A
Public health is concerned with the health of populations and communities rather than the individual, and therefore, its focus is on the health and prevention of illness of populations.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyze REF: pp. 180-181
| a. | current PHI can enhance public health surveillance such as identifying clusters of diseases. |
| b. | privacy and security issues are avoided because public health informatics data are de-identified at the community level. |
| c. | interoperability already exists for public health IT. |
| d. | standards already exist for PHI. |
ANS: A
Emphasizing the likely benefit of a PHI program (e.g. identifying clusters of diseases) will ensure that current PHI can enhance public health surveillance. The others are still issues in public health informatics, but they do not ensure benefit.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyze REF: pp. 185-187
| a. | the linkage of local electronic health records in the 50 states to public health reporting databases. |
| b. | immunization information systems. |
| c. | geographical informatics systems for reporting environmental issues. |
| d. | direct lab reporting of conditions and diseases such as lead poisoning. |
ANS: B
Immunization information systems exemplify public health systems that implement vocabulary and messaging standards, that are used to make public health decisions in a clinical setting, and that provide data for public health policy. The others lack one or more of the stated elements.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand REF: pp. 187-189
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