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Chapter 24: Public Health Social Work

Multiple Choice

1. How does this text describe the approach of public health social work?

a. Contemporary, person-in-environment, integrated approach

b. Trans-disciplinary, integrated, problem-solving approach

c. Preventative, contemporary, integrated approach

*d. Contemporary, integrated, trans-disciplinary approach

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

2. What are the three common goals for social work and public health in meeting the needs of society at-large?

a. To improve care, protection, and services

b. To improve health care for the underserved, uninsured, and at-risk groups

*c. To improve health, welfare, and social well-being

d. To improve access, care, and health

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

3. What was the purpose of health care reform?

a. To respond to the root causes of genetic and environmental exposures

*b. To treat illnesses and to reduce health disparities through prevention

c. To increase access to health care and insurance

d. To provide a patient care act and 10 benefit services

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

4. What are the two social work theoretical approaches often used in public health?

*a. Resilience and strengths-based

b. Strengths-based and empowerment

c. Ecological and resilience

d. Person-in-environment and systems

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

5. Unlike social workers, what approach do public health workers use to understand the health of the community and to gain an awareness of an individual’s psychosocial experiences of health?

a. Community awareness

b. Program evaluation

*c. Epidemiology

d. Risk reduction

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

6. What was the result of direct lobbying to Congress and to the state legislature by activist Dorothea Dix in the 1940s?

*a. American Mental Asylum

b. Affordable Care Act

c. Ten benefits for health insurance

d. More opportunities for social work

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History
Question Type: MC

7. Which movement was able to propel the work of activists such as Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, and Lillian Wald?

a. Affordable Care Act

b. Healthy People 2020

c. Emancipation of Slavery Act

*d. Civil Rights Movement

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History
Question Type: MC

8. What bureau was created by the U.S. government to meet the needs of children in 1912?

a. American Mental Asylum

*b. Federal Children’s Bureau

c. Healthy People 2020

d. Child Protective Services

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History
Question Type: MC

9. What was the primary benefit to uninsured Americans following the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?

*a. Access to health care for uninsured Americans

b. Access to financing for uninsured Americans

c. Disease prevention and clinical care

d. Health care reform

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History
Question Type: MC

10. What is the new social work education practice that responds to power differentials and provides opportunities for partnership practice through collaboration?

a. MSW/MPH

b. E-learning across disciplines

c. Collaboration

*d. Interprofessional education

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Educating Public Health Social Work Practitioners
Question Type: MC

True/False

1. The changing climate of social work involves the increased focus on disease prevention and the need to engage communities.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Changing Climate of Social Work Practice and Healthcare Delivery
Question Type: TF

2. The root cause of health disparities and public health concerns can be attributed to genetic predisposition and environmental exposures.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF

3. Epidemiology is an approach used to understand only physical health and does not consider the person’s psychosocial influence.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF

4. Public health social workers practice at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels using epidemiology and geographic information systems as their primary tools in the field.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Intervention
Question Type: TF

5. Dr. John Snow was known for his work on Ebola outbreak.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: History

Question Type: TF

6. A shift in public health occurred in the 1980s as a result of new diseases like AIDS.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Current Status of Public Health Social Work
Question Type: TF

7. The Roadmap for Health was called Healthy People 2020 and offers opportunities for social workers to engage in the promotion of access to health, health education, and programs for quality of life and well-being.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Current Status of Public Health Social Work
Question Type: TF

8. One of the 10 essential benefits of the Affordable Care Act is rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: PPACA and Implications on Social Work Practice
Question Type: TF

9. The three types of evaluation are formative, process, and summative.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Program Planning and Evaluation
Question Type: TF

10. The Affordable Care Act expanded coverage to the uninsured, advocated for insurance reform, and implemented change in financing and delivery of care.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Question Type: TF

Short Answer

Type: S

1. According to the 10 Essential Health Benefits, what are the three ways social workers are to use case management?

Case management is intended to be used by social workers to seek, plan, and monitor client services.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: PPACA and Implications on Social Work Practice
Question Type: SA

Type: S

2. What are the three primary reasons that a shift can be expected in the health care delivery system?

A shift can be expected in the health care delivery system as a result of: 1) the expansion of Medicaid, 2) individual mandate, and 3) the health insurance marketplace.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Changing Climate of Social Work Practice and Health Care Delivery
Question Type: SA

Type: S

3. What are two ways that the Affordable Care Act has created more opportunities for social work in education and health?

Social work has been able to get access to more opportunities because of the Affordable Care Act through the increase in prospective employment and the growth in the field for varied jobs in the field of health and health care. Interprofessional education has also created a platform for new partnerships and collaboration.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Educating Public Health Social Workers
Question Type: SA

Essay

Type: E

1. Identify and describe three purposes that social work and public health have in common.

*a. Social work and public health have many purposes in common. First, they both work at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels even though it is sometimes referred to as primary, secondary, and tertiary. Second, they both provide services to the underserved and respond to the needs of the community. Lastly, they both attempt to treat illness and reduce health disparities through prevention.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: ESS

Type: E

2. Explain the Healthy People 2020 plan and how social workers can apply this to practice.

*a. The Healthy People 2020 plan has a social work focus that promotes access to health, health education and community-based programs, and programs related to quality of life and well-being. Each of these areas is important. However, the promotion of access to health speaks more to our responsibility as social workers to affect change in the community. We can do this effectively through health education and community programming, but the change must bring about quality of life and well-being changes for the education to be used effectively and for societal change to occur.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Current Status of Public Health Social Work
Question Type: ESS

Type: E

3. Identify one social worker who advocated for policy change, and describe the institution that resulted from their work and the client population for which the institution was created.

*a. Dorothea Dix was a social worker whose work resulted in the establishment of the American Mental Asylum. This was developed as a response to persons with mental health concerns who lacked resources to care for themselves.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: History
Question Type: ESS