JMESI - Epidemiology Three: Force Health Protection (1 hr)

What is the last component in a risk communication plan?

Activities

Healthcare Management Organizations should incorporate cultural competencies in:

All aspects of policy making, administration, practice, and service delivery

How often should an individual's medical readiness be assessed?

Annually

You have completed your mission and you are re-deploying back to the United States. Which of the following critical actions would you take at this point?

Complete a post-deployment health assessment

In which one of the following components of the risk communication plan would you find a list of possible problems to implementing the plan?

Constraints

How often must health and safety hazards be assessed?

Continuously

The first step in setting up a diversity management program is to:

Develop a customized business case for diversity

True or False: The Guidelines for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) is comprised of 10 standards set by the Office of Minority Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

False

Which one of the following is the most comprehensive with respect to a healthy and fit force?

Force health protection

As compared with mainstream American culture, patients from Asian countries:

Have a group orientation (versus an individual orientation)

Cultural competent healthcare requires that healthcare organizations:

Have the capacity to value diversity

What concept is defined by "the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of information on the health of a population and relevant health hazards"?

Health surveillance

Understanding different cultures matters in healthcare organizations because:

It influences the way patients respond to healthcare services

All occupational and environmental health reports/data are to be entered into which one of the following?

Military Exposure Surveillance Library

When employees are sensitive to use of language and the effects of stereotyping, they are demonstrating the characteristic and/or factor of:

Mutual respect

Critical actions during actual deployments include

Occupational and environmental health site assessments

Which is most characteristic of mainstream American culture?

Preference for direct confrontation

One of the major benefits and/or outcomes of culturally competent care is:

Reduced delays in seeking care and improved use of health services

Which of the following is one of the risk communication guidelines?

Simplify language

Cultural competence is a set of behaviors that includes:

Specific knowledge, skills, and abilities

Which one of the following is true with respect to public perceptions/beliefs regarding health messages?

The public may react unfavorably to fear

True or False: Appreciation of how one's personal cultural values, assumptions, and beliefs influence the clinical care provided is a critical attitude for providers.

True

True or False: Tolerance for ambiguities of language, styles, and behaviors is one of the six fundamentals of embracing diversity.

True

Which one of the following is a true statement?

Wellness interventions include a complete health assessment for all new Service members