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The capacity to use the environmental public health practitioners' dfrontline role to effectively educate the public on

environmental public health issues is one of the:

• Ten essential services of environmental public health
• Revitalization strategies of environmental public health
• Core competencies of environmental public health
• Epidemiological investigation techniques - ANSWER✔✔C. Core competencies of environmental public health

Regulation and ____ of food production, recreational waters, and onsite waste water disposal are examples of environmental public health practitioners' roles and responsibilities

• Monitoring
• Promotion
• Reporting
• Ensuring - ANSWER✔✔A. Monitoring

The environmental public health practitioner must have a thorough understanding of the legal implications in all areas of decision making, as well as the ____ of the public and of government

• Managing 1 / 4

• Promoting
• Rights
• Safety - ANSWER✔✔C. Rights

The environmental public health practitioner must recognize the wide use of which science in identifying disease causing factors, environmental conditions contributing to or modifying the spread, and occurrence of disease.

• Microbiology
• Epidemiology
• Chemistry
• Safety - ANSWER✔✔B. Epidemiology

Environmental public health practitioners must know the basic how and why of the ___ process

• Carbon cycle
• Administrative procedure
• Epidemic disease
• Public safety - ANSWER✔✔C. Epidemic disease

In an environmental public health ____ a problem is identified in terms of its size and nature, then analyzed, and goals and objectives are set

• Investigation
• Inspection
• Program
• Trial - ANSWER✔✔A. Investigation

It is essential that samples, specimens, photographs not only be collected in a legally defensible manner, but the ____ be adhered to in a way that the courts will accept

• Defendant'srights
• Chain of custody
• Administrative law 2 / 4

• One of the above - ANSWER✔✔B. Chain of custody

Environmental public health programs regulate and monitor institutions and licensed establishments, to prevent the spread of nosocomial and other infections, communicable diseases, and _______.

• To ensure complete compliance for inhabitants, employees, and the general public
• To satisfy regulatory requirements for inhabitants, employees, and the general public
• To enforce critical control measures for inhabitants, employees, and the general public
• To reduce health and safety risk for inhabitants, employees, and the general public - ANSWER✔✔D. To reduce health and

safety risk for inhabitants, employees, and the general public A critical step in any investigation is to carefully document all observations, including times, dates, locations, and circumstances

• True
• False - ANSWER✔✔A. True

What is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in children under five years of age?

• Neisseria meningitides
• Group B Streptococci
• Streptococcus pneumonia
• Haemophilus influenza type B - ANSWER✔✔D. Haemophilus influenza type B

How is "giardiasis" usually transmitted to others?

• Person to person transfer of cysts from the feces of the infected individual
• Drinking unfiltered water from streams or lakes
• Drinking uncoiled water from streams or lakes
• Drinking inadequately chlorinated water from a municipal water distribution system - ANSWER✔✔A. Person to person

transfer of cysts from the feces of the infected individual Which of the following duties of state and local health agencies is intended to ensure that the public health and welfare are protected? 3 / 4

• Community tensile planning
• Statutory administrative practices
• Regulatory responsibilities
• Plan implementation - ANSWER✔✔C. Regulatory responsibilities

Which of the following is a measure of the amount of light scattered by particles suspended in a water test sample?

• Formalin Turbidity units (FTU)
• Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU)
• Hydrosyntalic Turbidity Units (HTU)
• Lorcetic Turbidity Units (LTU) - ANSWER✔✔B. Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU)

What is an epidemic?

• The constant presence of a disease within a community or region
• The presence of an infectious agent on a body surface
• The presence of infection in a host without clear, recognizable clinic symptoms
• The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an. Illness clearly in excess of expectancy - ANSWER✔✔D. The

occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness clearly in excess of expectancy What portal of entry should a field sanitarian protect to avoid contracting Lyme disease?

• Skin
• Respitory tract
• Reproductive organs
• Digestive tract - ANSWER✔✔A. Skin

Swimmer's itch is a common name for which of the following diseases?

• Leptospirosis
• Subdural dermatitis
• Schistosomiasis
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