Violence: A Preventable Public Health

The environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, and worship, which affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks are defined as:

Social Determinants of Health

Which type of violence includes behavior that is unwelcome or offensive to a reasonable person, whether oral, written, or physical, that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.

Harassment

A Service member is learning about his Services' approach to violence prevention through training provided by the DoD. He wants to learn more about the public health approach to violence prevention that was used as the basis for the DoD's prevention plan. True or False: He can go to the CDC website for resources on the public health approach to violence.

True

Violence does not only have an impact on the victim; it often impacts the entire community.

True

Which groups are the focus in the primary prevention of violence?

Universal and Selected

Crime rates, availability of safe parks, access to healthy food options, neighborhood appearance, and the quality and safety of streets and sidewalks are key issues of which social determinant of health and equity?

Neighborhood and Built Environment

Which of the following is NOT one of the levels of the Social-Ecological Model?

Partnership

A military installation implements a policy that requires 24/7 call center services be available to military service members who are contemplating suicide. This is an example of which type of activity?

Prevention Activity

A Service member comes from a supportive family, received an education at one of the best public-school systems in the country, and had counseling services available to him as a child. Which type of factors has this Service member experienced?

Protective Factors

Secondary and tertiary prevention efforts occur_______________ an act of violence.

After

General Brown described his experiences as a Black man in the military and the discrimination he has faced throughout his life. These issues are examples of:

All of the Above

Why is violence a public health issue?

All of the Above

Which of the following is an example of a shared protective factor for the community level of the Social-Ecological Model?

Coordination of resources and services among community agencies

Assure Widespread Adoption occurs after which step of the public health approach to violence prevention?

Develop and Test Prevention Strategies