Public health professionals advocating for health policies that would increase immunization rates argue that community wellbeing is more important than that of the individual. Which of the following best describes this approach to health policy? 

You have just started an internship at Public Health Madison-Dane County, and a report has come in about a potential food-borne outbreak at a local restaurant. Your supervisor asks you what the first steps should be, and you reply that the cases need to be described by what three factors? 

The following figure shows the percentage of adults in fair or poor health. This graphic demonstrates that fair or poor health is associated with which of the following factors?    Note: if the image doesn’t load correctly, please use this link. (Links to an external site.) This is Figure B.

Health spending growth has slowed in the U.S. in recent years. How has health spending been growing in other industrialized countries? 

The Affordable Care Act has had the greatest impact on which of the following measures of health system performance: 

You just accepted a job with your local health department and are asked to study the rates of breast cancer in your county (population 100,000). Over the past year there have been 120 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. Which of the following is true?

What is the principal reason for the ongoing debate about the causes and consequences of global climate change? 

The County Health Rankings model is widely used to compare and contrast the health of communities. This model contains all of the following determinants of health, EXCEPT: 

The demographic and technologic transition experienced by developed countries has been accompanied by an epidemiologic transition. Which of the following provides the best description of the epidemiologic transition that has happened in the United States during the last half century?

The number of American farms is decreasing while the number of acres on each farm is increasing.