Public Health Awareness Survey (2001)
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- Knowledge and Attitudes about Public Health Services
- Knowledge and Attitudes about Local Boards of Health
- Knowledge and Attitudes about Community Health
- Youth Tobacco Use and Public Policy
- Overweight in Children and Youth
- Bioterrorism
Knowledge and Attitudes about Public Health Services:
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- How much do you know about the services provided by public health departments in North Carolina?
- Personally benefit from health care for the poor?
- Personally benefit from disease prevention services?
- Personally benefit from health education services?
- Personally benefit from clean air and water?
- Personally benefit from sanitation services?
- Personally benefit from animal control services?
- Personally benefit from injury prevention services?
- To the best of your knowledge, is there a local heath department in your county?
- Have you ever gone to a North Carolina public health department for services of any kind?
- How would you describe your last visit to the health department?
Knowledge and Attitudes about Local Boards of Health:
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- Besides having local public health departments, North Carolina also has local Boards of Health. How much do you know about local Boards of Health?
- Adopting policies that protect us from infectious diseases, like AIDS?
- Regulating hog and chicken farms?
- Adopting regulations that protect our drinking water (wells/septic systems)?
Knowledge and Attitudes about Community Health:
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- When you hear the words, a healthy community, what is the first thing you think of?
- Do you think your community is a healthy place to live and raise a family?
- In your opinion, how much influence does your community have on your own personal health?
- In your opinion, how important is it that some of your tax dollars be used to help make your community a healthy place to live?
- For each of the following, please tell me how important they are to the quality of your life.
- Being able to get quality health care?
- The opportunity to find work at a living wage?
- The opportunity for lifelong education and learning?
- Assurance that our air and water our clean?
- Assurance that no one is exposed to harmful substances, like chemical spills?
- Enough food for an active, healthy life?
- The opportunity to learn about healthy living?
- Affordable housing?
- The availability of police protection, fire safety,and emergency services?
- Adequate and affordable public transportation?
- The opportunity to maintain your permanent teeth for life?
Youth Tobacco Use and Public Policy:
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- Do you support policies that require North Carolina public school campuses (buildings and grounds) to be 100% smoke free for all students, staff and visitors at all times?
- How much additional tax on a pack of cigarettes would you be willing to support if all the money raised was used to fund smoking prevention programs for our youth?
Overweight in Children and Youth:
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- In your opinion, how serious (bad) is the problem of overweight children and adolescents in North Carolina?
- Many North Carolina public schools allow commercial fast food, like McDonald's hamburgers, to be sold during the lunch hour. Students may also purchase sodas from vending machines placed inside school buildings. In your opinion, what effect do these practices have on the health of our students?
Bioterrorism:
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- In your opinion, how likely is it that a terrorist attack, involving biological or chemical weapons, could occur in North Carolina?
- If there was an attack in North Carolina, using biological or chemical weapons, how confident are you that your health would be protected?
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