Information Technology for the Health Professions 4th Edition By Lillian Burke - Test Bank

Information Technology for the Health Professions 4th Edition By Lillian Burke – Test Bank

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Chapter Five Exam

Multiple Choice Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. __________________ refers to “the study of diseases in populations by collecting and analyzing statistical data.”
2. Pandemic
3. Epidemic
4. Epidemiology
5. None of the above
6. _______________ supports public health practice and research with information technology.
7. Medical informatics
8. Health care informatics
9. Public health informatics
10. None of the above
11. Public health is affected by social factors such as poverty and social __________________.
12. inequality
13. style
14. Both A and B
15. None of the above
16. Information technology can help infection control practitioners in the task of __________________.
17. surveillance
18. outbreak monitoring
19. reporting
20. All of the above
21. Computers can create what-if scenarios or ________________ of what would happen to an infectious disease if something else happened (e.g., if air travel increased/decreased or the temperature rose or fell; if there was an adequate supply of antiviral drugs, if a vaccine existed or did not exist).
22. let us pretend
23. spreadsheets
24. simulations
25. None of the above
26. _____________________ models are the programs that create the simulations.
27. What-if
28. Computational
29. Computer
30. Disease
31. A program called _____________ is used to model flu.
32. Socrates
33. MIDAS
34. AESOP
35. None of the above
36. A/An ________________ is “an excess in the number of cases of a given health problem. . . .”
37. pandemic
38. epidemic
39. small outbreak
40. outbreak
41. _________________ are organized “system[s] for the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and dissemination of information” on people with a disease, a predisposition toward a disease, and an exposure to anything thought to cause ill health.
42. Registries
43. Offices
44. Bureaus
45. None of the above
46. ____________________ uses “health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak.”
47. Counting
48. Syndromic surveillance
49. Computer surveillance
50. None of the above
51. Between 2011 and 2015, an international program to combat AIDS aims to advance global progress in achieving country set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and to halt and reverse the spread of HIV.”. It is called ________________.
52. UNAIDS
53. LIFESAVE
54. UNSAVE
55. None of the above
56. One concrete step to slow global warming (climate change) is cutting emissions of _____.
57. NaCl
58. H₂0
59. C0₂
60. None of the above
61. A/An _______________ is a global outbreak of disease to which every individual in the world is susceptible.
62. epidemic
63. pandemic
64. Both A and B
65. None of the above
66. ________________ is a microbiology information system developed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts.
67. WHONET
68. WHATNOT
69. WHOBIO
70. None of the above
71. Some of the effects of global warming (climate change) are ________________.
72. more intense storms and heat waves
73. there are no effects
74. drought in the developing world
75. Both A and C

Chapter Five Exam

Fill-Ins Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.

1. ______________________________ is a microbiology information system developed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts. It is used to monitor antibacterial resistance.
2. ___________________ is already having a devastating effect on the earth and is affecting agricultural production in some places.
3. On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, followed by a ________with 30-foot waves.
4. Hurricane __________________ flooded New Orleans both because it was a “monster hurricane” and because the levees failed.
5. In the early twentieth century, epidemic ____________________ struck in New York for the first time.
6. ____________________ attacks the immune system, leading to susceptibility to opportunistic infection.
7. _________________________ informatics integrates “health-related data on all levels, such as molecule, cell, tissue, organ, people and the entire population.”
8. On April 20, 2010, an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 human beings. Among the first effects was the spill of tens of thousands of barrels of ______ a day into the Gulf effectively polluting the water, damaging the shoreline, and killing wildlife.
9. Bacterial resistance happens even without antibiotics, but the use and abuse of these drugs exacerbates the resistance and leads to the development of ____________.
10. WHO stands for ______________________________.
11. _____________________________________ is a staph infection resistant to many antibiotics. It appeared in Europe in the 1960s, which coincides with the first widespread use of antibiotics. A recent study “confirm[s] that the evolution of resistant strains and their spread are primarily driven by antibiotic use.”  (Use the abbreviation in your answer)

12._____________________ first appeared in the 1930s.  It is a form of encephalitis or brain inflammation.

13. ______________________ surveillance can be used for example in shelters where there are no medical personnel; people can look out for signs and symptoms (for instance diarrhea) and report them.
14. The ________________________________ (part of the Public Health Information Network) will promote “integrated surveillance systems that can transfer . . . public health, laboratory and clinical data . . . over the Internet.” This would be a national electronic surveillance system.
15. _________ (a deadly bacterium resistant to antibiotics) can cause pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and infections in wounds and surgical sites. It appears in hospitals and other health care settings. (Use the abbreviation in your answer)