Module Two : Posttest

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MODULE TWO POSTTEST
10 questions / 10 points each

Name:

Question 1.
A community-based organization is interested in improving access to preventive health services for children. To help assess needs an analyst with this organization is interested in evaluating the effectiveness of a program to enroll low-income children in a low-cost insurance program. One of the indicators used in this evaluation is the proportion of children who are eligible for the program who actually enroll.

Which of the following sentences best reflects the CONCEPT of the above example?
A: The role of community-based organizations
B: The proportion of those eligible that enroll
C: Access to preventive health services
D: The criteria for enrollment eligibility
E: None of the above

Question 2.
A community-based organization is interested in improving access to preventive health services for children. To help assess needs an analyst with this organization is interested in evaluating the effectiveness of a program to enroll low-income children in a low-cost insurance program. One of the indicators used in this evaluation is the proportion of children who are eligible for the program who actually enroll.

Which of the following sentences best reflects a VARIABLE from the above example?
A: The role of community-based organizations
B: The proportion of those eligible that enroll
C: Access to preventive health services
D: The criteria for enrollment eligibility

Question 3.
You are creating a survey and need to measure birthweight. You decide to measure birthweight in terms of the actual number of grams an infant weighed at birth.

What type of variable is reflected in this format?
A: Text
B: Continuous
C: Ordinal
D: Categorical
E: Cardinal

Question 4.
You are creating a survey and need to measure birthweight. You decide to ask the delivering physician to check a box corresponding to the child's birthweight (1. Normal Birthweight, 2. Low Birthweight, or 3. Very Low Birthweight)

What type of variable is reflected in this format?
A: Text
B: Categorical
C: Filial
D: Ordinal
E: Continuous

Question 5.
Which of the following statements DOES NOT describe part of the operationalization process?
A: Moving from the most general concept to the most specific measure
B: Answering the question of how you are going to measure your concept
C: Calculating statistical significance for the observed relationship
D: Articulating the questions you will ask or the data you will collect to reflect the concept you are interested in
E: All of these statements describe the process of operationalization

Question 6.
An infant mortality reduction program measures the number of prenatal visits a woman makes during the course of her pregnancy. Mary Jones had eleven prenatal visits during her pregnancy.

Based on this example which of the following statements is true?
A: "Infant mortality reduction" is the variable of interest
B: "Number of prenatal visits" in the concept of interest
C: "Mary Jones" is the variable of interest
D: "Eleven" is the value of interest
E: None of these statements is true

Question 7.
You are responsible for selecting health indicators to assess the public health impact of recent changes in the delivery of health care services to women and children [For example: the transition of AFDC / TANF recipients from a fee-for-service Medicaid reimbursement system to a prepaid managed care system]

From the choices below, which selection criteria would you use to decide whether an indicator is useful?
1. The condition impacts a large number of individuals or is very severe
2. The indicator is quantifiable
3. The indicator can be uniformly defined across programs
4. The condition to be measured in not preventable

A: Only 1, 2, and 3
B: Only 2, 3, and 4
C: Only 2 and 4
D: Only 1 and 3
E: None of the above are proper selection criteria

Question 8.
There are many barriers to the measurement of public health indicators. Which of the following choices would be considered a barrier to collecting data on an indicator?
A: Some of the conditions to be monitored are not preventable
B: The indicator can be uniformly defined across programs
C: Data is not available in a regular or timely manner
D: Duplicated responses are unlikely
E: None of the above are barriers to collecting data

Question 9.
According to the Healthy People 2010 Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Indicators there are four causes that account for more than half of infant deaths in the US.

1. Birth Defects
2. Respiratory Distress Syndrome
3. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
4. Shaken Baby Syndrome
5. Disorders relating to short gestation and unspecified low birthweight
6. Chronic Malnutrition

Which of the following options contains the correct four causes?
A: 1, 2, 3, and 4
B: 1, 2, 4, and 6
C: 3, 4, 5, and 6
D: 1, 2, 3, and 5
E: 1, 3, 5, and 6

Question 10.
The disparities in infant mortality, maternal mortality, and low birthweight between whites and non-whites are well documented and, in many cases, expanding. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of such disparities?
A: The 1996 infant mortality rate among African American infants was more than twice that of white infants
B: The rate of maternal mortality among African Americans is nearly four times the white rate (5.1 per 100,000)
C: In 1990, the rate of FAS among American Indians or Alaska Natives was more than 5 times the national average
D: All of the above
E: None of the above

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