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Selection 1:Disease tracking
Selection 2:health promotion
Selection 3:Disease prevention
Selection 4:Public health
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Select the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.A ✔ diseaseepidemiologyincidenceprevalence

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Selection 1:disease
Selection 2:a chronic disease
Selection 3:quality of life
Selection 4:monitoring disease
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Select the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.✔ Disease trackingHealth promotionDisease preventionIncidence

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Selection 1:Disease tracking
Selection 2:health promotion
Selection 3:Disease prevention
Selection 4:Public health
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The public health agency that specializes in the tracking, study, and prevention of disease in the United States is called:

A
the World Health Organization.
B
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
C
the North American Cancer Registry.
D
the National Health Promotion Agency.
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Which combination of information is most useful to public-health officials?

A
incidence and surveillance
B
prevalence and surveillance
C
prevalence and incidence
D
bias and prevalence
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Which group is most likely to receive the first signs that flu cases are on the rise?

A
local health departments
B
local police departments
C
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D
the World Health Organization
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What can be learned from disease monitoring?

A
the amount of money one hospital has spent on treating a certain disease
B
the number of people who have a certain disease
C
the number of people who took part in a fund-raising walk to raise money for a certain disease
D
whether a certain person will die from a specific disease
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Which findings could have been made from analyzing data in the cancer registry?

A
Breast cancer is the most frightening disease in the US.
B
Too much money is spent on researching cancer.
C
Obesity and lack of exercise can increase a person’s chance of developing cancer.
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A person who studies how and where diseases affect people and how diseases can be controlled is called:

A
an epidemiologist.
B
a physiologist.
C
a disease monitor.
D
a prevalence expert.
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The agency that communicates with health organizations around the world is called:

A
the Global Wellness Coalition.
B
the World Health Promotion Agency.
C
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
D
the World Health Organization.
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Disease surveillance means:

A
doing phone surveys of the public.
B
watching for disease patterns.
C
surveying land to find mosquitoes.
D
writing unbiased research studies.
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What is a step that health officials may decide to take if they learn that flu cases are on the rise in their area?

A
Prevent people with the flu from entering hospitals.
B
Call the World Health Organization for backup.
C
Stop offering flu shots.
D
Remind people to wash their hands often and to stay home if they become sick.
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How can education efforts to promote healthy foods and exercise improve the quality of life of people who are obese?

A
It can help reduce their chances of developing other diseases.
B
Stores can sell the people more fruits and vegetables.
C
It can help people reduce the number of stairs they have to climb each day.
D
People can enroll in randomized research studies to study obesity.
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What types of information are included in a cancer registry? Select all that apply.

A
three generations’ worth of heart-disease information
B
how certain cancers were treated
C
cancer patients’ names
D
types of cancer
E
why people in an area have the same rare cancer
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Disease trackingHealth promotionHealth prevalence✔ Disease prevention

A
Disease tracking
B
Health promotion
C
Health prevalence
D
✔ Disease prevention

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