What was the outcome of the Shattuck Report? a. Efforts to ...

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What was the outcome of the Shattuck Report?
 
  a. Efforts to control alcohol and drug abuse, as well as tobacco use, were initiated.
  b. Environmental sanitation efforts became an immediate priority.
  c. Guidelines for modern public health organizations were eventually developed.
  d. Local and state governments established boards of health after its publication.

Question 2

A nurse was employed by the Marine Hospital Service in 1800. Which of the following interventions would the nurse most likely have completed?
 
  a. Setting policy on quarantine legislation for immigrants
  b. Establishing hospital-based programs to care for the sick at home
  c. Identifying and improving environmental conditions
  d. Providing health care for merchant seamen

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
It took 19 years for the first of Shattuck's recommendations to be implemented, but his report was the first effort to create a modern public health organization.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Providing health care to seamen was an early effort by the federal government to improve public health. The purpose of the Marine Hospital Service was to secure its maritime trade and seacoast cities.