CPHP Practice Test

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CPHP Practice Test (V1)

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Question 1

In epidemiology, the “incidence rate” of a disease is defined as:

  1. The total number of existing cases of a disease in a population at a specific point in time.
  2. The number of new cases of a disease that develop in a population at risk during a specified time period.
  3. The proportion of a population that dies from a disease over a specified time period.
  4. The number of people who are exposed to a risk factor and subsequently develop the disease.

Question 2

A public health pharmacist is tasked with increasing vaccination rates in an underserved community. Which of the following strategies represents a “primary prevention” activity?

  1. Screening for high blood pressure at a community health fair.
  2. Providing diabetes management education to newly diagnosed patients.
  3. Administering influenza vaccines to healthy adults and children.
  4. Referring a patient with established cardiovascular disease to a cardiac rehabilitation program.

Question 3

Which of the following best describes the public health concept of “health equity”?

  1. Providing everyone with the exact same healthcare resources, regardless of their individual needs.
  2. Ensuring that all individuals have the exact same health outcomes.
  3. The attainment of the highest level of health for all people, which requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities.
  4. Focusing public health interventions exclusively on the most disadvantaged populations.

Question 4

A pharmacist is working at a clinic that offers a naloxone co-prescribing program for patients on high-dose opioids. This program is a key example of what public health strategy?

  1. Disease surveillance.
  2. Health promotion.
  3. Harm reduction.
  4. Tertiary prevention.

Answer Key

  • Question 1: B. The number of new cases of a disease that develop in a population at risk during a specified time period. (Incidence measures the rate of new disease development, which is crucial for understanding risk and studying disease etiology. Prevalence, in contrast, refers to existing cases.)
  • Question 2: C. Administering influenza vaccines to healthy adults and children. (Primary prevention aims to prevent disease from occurring in the first place. Vaccination is a classic example. Screening and disease management are forms of secondary and tertiary prevention, respectively.)
  • Question 3: C. The attainment of the highest level of health for all people, which requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities. (Health equity is about social justice in health, recognizing that systemic obstacles and injustices must be removed to give everyone the opportunity to be healthy. It is distinct from equality, which means giving everyone the same thing.)
  • Question 4: C. Harm reduction. (Harm reduction strategies aim to minimize the negative health consequences associated with certain behaviors, such as drug use, without necessarily stopping the behavior entirely. Providing naloxone does not prevent opioid use but can prevent a fatal overdose, which is a core tenet of harm reduction.)