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1. Which element of FOURmula one aims to ensure quality and affordability of health services?
a. Health financing

b. Health regulation

c. Health service delivery d. Good governance

2. Core business of public health include all of the following, EXCEPT:

a. Disease control

b. Health protection

c. Health public policy d. None of the above

3. The different clients of the community health nurse include the following:
1. Individual
2. Family
3. Population group 4. Community
a. 1 and 2 only b. 1, 3, 4 only c. 1, 2, 4
d. 1, 2, 3, and 4
4. Which of the following is an advantage of a home visit?
a. It allows the nurse to provide nursing care to greater number of population
b. It allows sharing of experiences among people with different health problems
c. It provides an opportunity to provide firsthand appraisal/assessment of home situation
d. It develops a familys initiative in providing for health needs of its members
5. He defined public health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting
health and efficiency through organized community effort.
a. Winslow

b. Nightingale

c. Rosenstock

d. Maslow

6. If there were 250 deaths and 36,114 live births registered in Region III, with a total population of
200,000, the fetal death rate would be?
a. 6.0 per 1,000 live births
c. 0.16 per 1,000 live births

b. 7.8 per 1,000 live births

d. 0.0014 per 1,000 live births

7. Pillars of primary health care include all of the following, except:

a. Active community participation
b. Provision of medical care and emergency treatment
c. Support mechanism made available
d. Use of appropriate technology
8. A very important part of the community health nursing planning process includes:
a. Evaluation of structures and qualifications of health care team
b. Application of professional judgment in estimating importance of facts to community
c. Carrying out nursing actions as per plan of action
d. Coordination with other sectors in relation to health concerns
9. Pandemic occurrence of a disease means:
a. Intermittent occurrence of a few and isolated and unrelated cases in a given locality
b. The simultaneous occurrence of the epidemic of the same disease in several countries
c. The unusually large number of cases in a relatively short period of time
d. The continuous occurrence, throughout a period of time, of the usual number of
occurrences in a given locality.
10. Which is the primary goal of community health nursing?
a. To support and supplement the efforts of the medical profession in the promotion of
health and prevention of illness
b. To enhance the capacity of individuals, families and communities to cope with their health
needs

c. To increase the productivity of the people by providing them with services that will
increase their level of health
d. To contribute to national development through promotion of family welfare, focusing
particularly on mothers and children.
11. CHN is a community-based practice. Which best explains this statement?
a. The service is provided in the natural environment of people.
b. The nurse has to conduct community diagnosis to determine nursing needs and
problems.
c. The services are based on the available resources within the community.
d. Priority setting is based on the magnitude of the health problems identified.
12. Public health services are given free of charge. Is this statement true or false?
a. The statement is true; it is the responsibility of government to provide basic services.
b. The statement is false; people pay indirectly for public health services.
c. The statement may be true or false, depending on the specific service required.
d. The statement may be true or false, depending on policies of the government
concerned.
13. Which of the following is the most prominent feature of public health nursing?
a. It involves providing home care to sick people who are not confined in the hospital.
b. Services are provided free of charge to people within the catchment area.
c. The public health nurse functions as part of a team providing a public health nursing
services.
d. Public health nursing focuses on preventive, not curative, services
14. Which of the following is the mission of the Department of Health?
a. Health for all Filipinos
b. Ensure the accessibility and quality of health care
c. Improve the general health status of the population
d. Health in the hands of the Filipino people by the year 2020
15. Region IV Hospital is classified as what level of facility?
a. Primary b. Secondary c. Intermediate

d. Tertiary

16. Which level of health facility is the usual point of entry of a client into the health care delivery
system?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Intermediate d. Tertiary
17. Which type of family-nurse contact will provide you with the best opportunity to observe family
dynamics?
a. Clinic consultation b. Group conference c. Home visit d. Written communication

18. Which of the following is an epidemiologic function of the nurse during an epidemic?
a. Conducting assessment of suspected cases to detect the communicable disease
b. Monitoring the condition of the cases affected by the communicable disease
c. Participating in the investigation to determine the source of the epidemic
d. Teaching the community on preventive measures against the disease
19. You are computing the crude death rate of your municipality, with a total population of about
18,000, for last year. There were 94 deaths. Among those who died, 20 died because of diseases of
the heart and 32 were aged 50 years or older. What is the crude death rate?
a. 4.2/1,000

b. 5.2/1,000

c. 6.3/1,000

d. 7.3/1,000

20. In the past year, Barangay A had an average population of 1655. 46 babies were born in that year,
2 of whom died less than 4 weeks after they were born. There were 4 recorded stillbirths. What is the
neonatal mortality rate?
A. 27.8/1,000

B. 43.5/1,000

C. 86.9/1,000

D. 130.4/1,000

21. Which is not a part of the DOH roles and functions?

a. Leadership in health
c. Administrator of specific services

b. Enabler and capacity-builder

d. None of the above

22. Which of the following statement defines the DOH mission?

a. The DOH is the leader, staunch advocate and model in promoting Health for all in the
Philippines.
b. Guarantee equitable, sustainable, and quality health for all Filipinos , especially the poor,
and shall lead the quest for excellence in health.
c. The DOH shall ensure quality care to people across the nation
d. The DOH will guarantee accessible and free health services
23. Which of the following statement defines the DOH vision?
a. The DOH is the leader, staunch advocate and model in promoting Health for all in the
Philippines.
b. Guarantee equitable, sustainable, and quality health for all Filipinos , especially the poor,
and shall lead the quest for excellence in health.
c. The DOH shall ensure quality care to people across the nation
d. The DOH will guarantee accessible and free health services
24. Among the following, which is not included in the eigth (8) millennium development goals?
a. Promote gender equality and empower women
c. Improve maternal health

b. Reduce child mortality

d. Innovate new strategies in health

25. The functions of the epidemiology nurse include:

a. Implement public health surveillance
b. Monitor local health personnel conducting disease surveillance
c. Conduct/assist health personnel in outbreak investigation.
d. All of the above
26. All of the following are functions of the public health nurse, except:
a. Supervisory function b. Nursing function

c. Medical function

d. Training function

27. Which of the following is part of the assessment process by public health nurses?
a. Initiating contact
c. Putting nursing plan into action

b. Constructing action and operation plans

d. Nursing audit

28. Performance appraisal is included in which phase of the nursing process?

a. Assessment

b. Planning

c. Evaluation

d. Implementation

29. As part of your nursing care, you informed the family about the isolation precautions that must
be done at home. You should tell them that articles soiled with discharges should be first boiled in
water for:

a. 30 minutes

b. 20 minutes c. 40 minutes d. 15 minutes

30. Rainy season is at its peak. Unfortunately, it gave flashfloods that caused 15,000 people to be
infected with Leptospirosis, in just a matter of 3 days. This pattern of this occurrence is called:
a. Pandemic

b. Sporadic

c. Epidemic

d.Endemic

Part II. Identification/Enumeration.

_____________________ 1. The state of complete physical, mental, and emotional well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
_____________________ 2. A special field of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public
health, and some phases of social assistance and functions as part of the total public health program.
_____________________ 3-4. Two sectors of the Philippine health care system
_____________________
_____________________ 5. According to him, health is promoted by providing a decent standard of
living, good labor conditions, education, physical culture, means of rest and recreation.
_____________________ 6. Any combination of learning experience designed to facilitate voluntary
adoptions of behaviors conducive to health.
_____________________7-9. Three components of the epidemiologic triangle.
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________ 10. Essentially health care made universally accessible to individuals and
families in the community by means acceptable to them through their full participation and at a cost
that the community and country can afford.
_____________________ 11.The goal of the answer in no. 10.
_____________________ 12-13. Two Levels of Health Care and Referral System
_____________________
_____________________ 14. The first contact between the community members and other levels of
health facility
_____________________ 15. It serves as referral center for the primary health facilities.
_____________________ 16. It serves as referral center for the seconday health facilities.
_____________________ 17. Refers to the systematic study of vital events such as births, illnesses,
marriages, divorce, separation, and deaths.
_____________________ 18. Refers to the morbidity and death (mortality) that indicate the state of
health of a community
_____________________ 19-22. Four cornerstones/pillars in primary health care
_____________________

_____________________
_____________________
_____________________ 23-26. Give at least four elements/components of primary health care
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________ 27. Measures the increase in population.
_____________________ 28. Measures the decrease in population.
_____________________ 29. Measures the risk of dying during the 1st year of life
_____________________ 30. Measures the risk of dying from causes related to pregnancy, childbirth
and puerperium.
_____________________ 31. Measures pregnancy wastage.
_____________________ 32. Measures the risk of dying the 1st month of life.
_____________________ 33. It is based on the fundamental values of freedom, equality, health,
respect for nature, and shared responsibility.
_____________________ 34-35. Roles of the nurse in public health surveillance.
_____________________
_____________________ 36. It is a hospital-based information system that monitors the occurrence
of infectious diseases with outbreak potential.
_____________________ 37-39. Three epidemiology variables.
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________ 40. The overriding goal of DOH.

____________________ 41. Nurses assigned at various health settings, like rural health units, city
health centers, regional and provincial health offices, and even in the national office of the DOH.
____________________ 42. In performing this activity, it is essential to prepare a plan of visit to meet
the needs of the client
____________________ 43. It is an ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and
dissemination of health data
____________________ 44. Refers to a systematic approach of obtaining, organizing, and analyzing
numerical facts so that conclusion may be drawn from them

____________________ 45. Measures the proportion of the population which exhibits a particular
disease at a particular time

AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM!

Prepared by:

Maria Christina Bernadette L. Cepillo, RN, MAN

Instructor

NOTED:

Chris Norman G. Dimaano, BSC-BM, RN, MAN

DEAN College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences