Environmental Epi & Emergency Preparedness

Question 1

This English surgeon was the first to describe a link between a particular environmental substance and the development of cancer in 1775. He found a link between scrotal cancer among male pts who had been chimney sweeps during their young lives.

Answer 1

Percivall Pott

Collect the chimney soot in a POTT

Question 2

This type of epidemiology seeks to understand how physical, chemical, biologic, social, and economic factors affect human health

Answer 2

Environmental Epi

Question 3

This is a system of integrated health, exposure, and hazard information and data from a variety of national, state, and city sources.

Answer 3

National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network

Question 4

This branch of the CDC provides scientific and statistical expertise in environmental epidemiology; designs and conducts epidemiologic studies to evaluate the association between exposure to hazardous substances and adverse health effects; and implements extramural research programs that involve epidemiologic investigations.

Answer 4

Environmental Epidemiology Branch

Question 5

Environmental studies that explore the statistical connection between disease and exposure in population groups in geographical areas

Answer 5

Ecologic Studies

Question 6

**This is an example of an environmental-exposure database that facilitated an increase in the number of ecologic studies

Answer 6

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

Question 7

**This is a great resource for understanding the effects the environment may have on patient populations. This resource provides case studies in Environmental Medicine and CEs to increase PCP’s knowledge of hazardous substances and how to evaluate for exposure, and medical management of these exposures

Answer 7

Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSD)

Question 8

Any event, large or small, in which the NEEDS ARE GREATER THAN THE RESOURCES

Answer 8

Disaster

Question 9

**This component of the Disaster Continuum is the preparations taken BEFORE the event to lesson the effects of or prevent a disaster

Answer 9

Mitigation

Question 10

**A comprehensive review of what potential hazardous events may occur at any level from the individual, organizational, local community, state, or national level.

Answer 10

Risk Assessment

Question 11

**This identifies what events have the highest potential for occurring based on the types of disasters: natural, human-caused, health related, social disturbances, and terrorism.

Answer 11

Risk Assessment

Question 12

**Risk assessments are evaluated by these 2 variables:

Answer 12

1. PROBABILITY of occurrence

2. IMPACT of event

Question 13

**The WHO Influenza Pandemic Phases (1-6) is an example of an ______

Answer 13

Alert System

Question 14

The ____’s ALERT SYSTEM/response stages range from 0 to 6.

Answer 14

U.S.

Question 15

**In 2007, the CDC developed pre-pandemic planning guidance which assigns category levels of severity from 1 to 5, called the ____ ____ ____

Answer 15

Pandemic Severity Index

Question 16

**This provides communities and local decision makers with the ability to plan and implement community mitigation strategies based on the projected severity of pandemics.

Answer 16

Pandemic Severity Index

Question 17

**Within the Pandemic Severity Index, a projected death rate of less than 1 per 1,000 cases would be classified as a Category __

Answer 17

1

Question 18

**Within the Pandemic Severity Index, a projected death rate of more than 20 per 1,000 cases would be classified as a Category __

Answer 18

5 (ex: 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic)

Question 19

**The mobilization of forces during and immediately after an event to save life, limb, and property. It is usually both an organized response and grass-roots efforts by the victims themselves.

Answer 19

Response Phase

Question 20

This program coordinates the skills of practicing and retired health professionals as well as other citizens interested in health issues who are eager to volunteer to address their community’s ongoing public health needs

Answer 20

Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Program

Question 21

**This phase is the slow return to normal life after the disaster and can take many years for some victims

Answer 21

Recovery Phase

Question 22

During the response phase, emotions can be high due to the heroic efforts and then the elation that the disaster itself is over. This is known as the ____ phase.

Answer 22

Honeymoon Phase

Question 23

On average, disasters of ___ ___ have greater impact on mental health than natural disasters (difficult for survivors to make sense of why it happened)

Answer 23

Mass violence

Question 24

**Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, and these 2 other organizations offer education on emergency preparedness/disaster response

Answer 24

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

CDC

Question 25

An infectious disease that is transmissible under natural conditions from animals to humans.

Answer 25

Zoonosis