Featured article Quiz #1: "using 10-essential-services training to revive, refocus, and strengthen your environmental health programs".Available to NEHA NEHA National Environmental Health Association NEHA National Executive Housekeepers Association NEHA Northern Estates Homeowners Association (Indianapolis, Indiana) members only, the JEH JEH Journal of Economic History Quiz, offered six times per calendar year through the Journal of Environmental Health, is a convenient tool for self-assessment and an easily accessible means to accumulate continuing-education (CE) credits toward maintaining your NEHA credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. . It's a simple process.... 1. Read the featured article carefully 2. Select the correct answer to each JEH Quiz question. 3. a) Complete the online quiz at www.neha.org (click on "Continuing Education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). "), b) Fax the quiz to 303.691.9490, or c) Mail the completed quiz to JEH Quiz, NEHA, 720 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 1000-N, Denver, CO 80246. Be sure to include your name and membership number! 4. One CE credit will be applied to your account with an effective date of July 1, 2007 (first day of issue). 5. Check your continuing-education account online at www.neha.org. 6. You're on your way to earning CE hours! Quiz deadline: October 1, 2007 [GRAPHIC OMITTED] 1. Which of the following was not a finding that the Institute of Medicine made in 1988 about the practice of environmental health? a. Disjointed policy making. b. Fragmented service delivery c. Lack of accountability. d. Lack of information technology. 2. Which of the following is not one of the 10 essential services of environmental health? a. Monitoring environmental health status. b. Enforcing rules and regulations. c. Administering protection programs. d. Mobilizing mobilizing, v 1. freeing or making loose and able to move. 2. observing any ongoing movements in a client's body, whether small or large, assisted or not, that identify strengths and weaknesses, as well as the client's physical and community partnerships. 3. Developing a competent environmental health workforce is one of the six goals of CDC's National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH NCEH National Center for Environmental Health (US CDC) ). a. True. b. False. 4. In the next three to five years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time percentage of leadership that will need to be replaced in environmental health is a. <15 percent. b. 15-20 percent. c. 20-25 percent. d. >25 percent. 5. Which of the following did the Institute of Medicine not define in 1988 as one of the core functions of public health? a. Assessment. b. Decision making. c. Policy development. d. Assurance. 6. Which of the essential services of environmental health has been found to be practiced most frequently by local environmental health units? a. Enforcing rules and regulations. b. Mobilizing community partnerships. c. Researching for new insights and creative solutions. d. Evaluating the effectiveness and quality of services. 7. The essential services of environmental health are being taught as a core course in all academic environmental health programs in universities and colleges. a. True. b. False. 8. One of the uses of the essential services of environmental health is to evaluate existing gaps in environmental health organizational performance Organizational performance comprises the actual output or results of an organization as measured against its intended outputs (or goals and objectives). Specialists in many fields are concerned with organizational performance including strategic planners, operations, . a. True. b. False. 9. Which of the following federal agencies has been involved in the application of the essential services of environmental health in environmental health units nationwide? a. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. . b. Food and Drug Administration. c. U.S. Indian Health Service The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an Operating Division (OPDIV) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. . d. All of the above. 10. The essential-services-of-environmental-health framework can be used to identify capacity issues such as inadequate resources and lack of political support. a. True. b. False. 11. The essential-services-of-environmental-health framework was used to guide the development of NCEH's goals for revitalizing re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. environmental health practice in the 21st century. a. True. b. False. 12. Using the essential-services-of-environmental-health framework has been found to be effective in communications with policy makers. a. True. b. False. JEH Quiz #5 Answers March 2007 1. e 2. a 3. a 4. a 5. b 6. a 7. a 8. e 9. c 10. a 11. b 12. b Questions compiled by co-author co·au·thor or co-au·thor n. A collaborating or joint author. tr.v. co·au·thored, co·au·thor·ing, co·au·thors To be a collaborating or joint author of: "He and a colleague . . . Carl Osaki, R.S., M.S.P.H. |
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