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True or False
1. The 2008 financial crisis led to a reduction in public health staff.
2. Public sector organizations have the same priorities when it comes to tackling health problems as private sector companies.
3. All current public health directors are required to have at least a doctoral-level degree.
4. Preventive interventions that target entire populations are considered clinical prevention.
5. The effectiveness of a service or intervention depends on individual and sociocultural characteristics of the targeted community, the resources available at the agency implementing the intervention, and political and economic considerations.
6. Efficacy is a measure of how well an intervention works in the real world.
7. A public health program is a collection of interventions and services that have common objectives
8. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) waives any coinsurance requirements for most preventive services for Medicare and Medicaid recipients
9. An evidence-based public health program is one that is based on scientific evidence.
10. Public health agencies at the local and state levels often have governing or advisory boards to guide their efforts.
11. When reviewing the quality of scientific evidence to assess the effectiveness of preventive services for specific interventions, reviewers give more weight to expert clinical opinion than results from randomized controlled trials.
12. Public health agencies tend to have a hierarchical organization structure.