01
Fill in the blank
1 point
A heat-safety program tracks how many cooling-center visits occurred and how many residents received alerts. In a logic model, these measures are .
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02
Fill in the blank
1 point
A team tests draft heat-alert messages with residents and revises them before a citywide launch. This is .
03
True or false
1 point
A decline in heat-related emergency visits after a new program, by itself, proves that the program caused the decline. True or false?
- A
True
- B
False
04
True or false
1 point
A public health team may change an intervention’s timing or location to fit local circumstances, provided it preserves the intervention’s essential purpose.
- A
True
- B
False
05
Choose one
1 point
A city is choosing between two interventions for a health problem concentrated in neighborhoods with limited transportation. Which selection approach best accounts for population need?
- A
Choose the approach with the lowest delivery cost, regardless of who can access it.
- B
Compare how well each approach addresses the problem and reaches the groups most affected.
- C
Select the approach that is easiest to describe to decision-makers.
- D
Choose the approach that requires the fewest community partnerships.
06
Choose one
1 point
A team needs to explain how staff, partnerships, and multilingual alerts are expected to improve access to cooling and reduce illness. Which tool best makes that pathway explicit?
- A
A policy analysis
- B
A population average
- C
A logic model
- D
A process evaluation
07
Choose one
1 point
A program manager wants to know whether cooling centers opened as scheduled and whether residents in priority neighborhoods used them. Which evaluation type best fits these questions?
- A
Process evaluation
- B
Impact evaluation
- C
Outcome evaluation
- D
Economic evaluation
08
Choose one
1 point
A county wants to estimate whether a new outreach intervention caused an improvement, rather than merely observe that outcomes changed afterward. Which evaluation type is most appropriate?
- A
Formative evaluation
- B
Process evaluation
- C
Economic evaluation
- D
Impact evaluation
09
Written response
1 point
A clinic initiative has not yet assessed health outcomes. The team is checking whether staff followed the delivery plan and which groups were reached. What type of evaluation is this?
10
Written response
1 point
After a food-access initiative, a team measures whether participants' access to healthy foods improved. What type of evaluation is the team conducting?
11
Choose all
1 point
A health department is comparing approaches to reduce a community health risk. Select all considerations that should inform its choice.
- A
Evidence about likely benefits and possible harms
- B
Whether the intervention is popular with officials, regardless of its fit with the problem
- C
Whether the population most affected can access and use it
- D
Staff, funding, partnerships, and infrastructure needed for delivery
- E
Whether it avoids all adaptation to local circumstances
12
Choose all
1 point
A team is designing a neighborhood health intervention. Select all practices that represent meaningful community engagement.
- A
Invite residents to help define priorities and identify barriers.
- B
Use community input to shape messages and services.
- C
Limit community involvement to a one-time announcement after the plan is finalized.
- D
Continue engagement through implementation and evaluation.
13
Open ended
1 point
A city has launched multilingual heat alerts and accessible cooling centers. Propose one process measure and one outcome measure for evaluating the program. Explain one reason a change in the outcome would not, by itself, prove that the program caused it, and describe one way the evaluation findings could guide future action.
14
Choose one
1 point
A local government is comparing policy options for improving population health. Which approach best supports a balanced policy analysis?
- A
Choose the policy with the largest predicted health effect, regardless of feasibility or cost.
- B
Compare expected health impact, feasibility, and economic or budgetary effects.
- C
Choose the policy that is easiest to implement, regardless of likely health impact.
- D
Defer consideration of costs and feasibility until after the policy is adopted.
15
Choose one
1 point
A city coordinates cooling centers and heat alerts across several neighborhoods during heat waves. What makes this a public health intervention?
- A
A clinician adjusts one patient’s medication after a checkup.
- B
A city coordinates cooling centers and heat alerts to reduce risk across neighborhoods.
- C
A person chooses to drink more water during hot weather.
- D
A clinic treats a patient’s heat-related illness.
16
Choose one
1 point
A city’s overall heat-illness rate appears stable, but some neighborhoods report many more cases than others. What is the most appropriate next step when defining the problem?
- A
Use only the overall average because it summarizes the population.
- B
Exclude neighborhood data to avoid complicating the analysis.
- C
Examine how heat-related illness is distributed across relevant groups and places.
- D
Assume that every group experiences the same level of risk.
17
True or false
1 point
If an intended health outcome improves after an intervention begins, that change by itself proves the intervention caused the improvement.
- A
True
- B
False
18
Written response
1 point
What type of evaluation estimates whether observed changes were caused by an intervention, often by comparing outcomes with a credible alternative or comparison group?
19
Choose one
1 point
A heat-safety team finds that residents may receive warnings but still lack a way to reach a cool location. Which design best addresses this problem?
- A
Pair heat alerts with accessible cooling spaces and transportation.
- B
Send alerts only, without considering whether people can reach a cooling location.
- C
Focus only on individual behavior and avoid changes to services or the environment.
- D
Open cooling spaces but do not provide information about them.
20
Written response
1 point
What type of evaluation examines what was delivered, how well it was delivered, and which groups were reached?