WGU D583 FOUNDATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH COMPLETE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS (PASS GUARANTEE)
1. What is public health? Public health is the science and art of preventing
disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts of
society, communities, and individuals.
2. What are the core functions of public health? The three core functions are
assessment (monitoring health status), policy development (developing policies
to solve health problems), and assurance (ensuring access to appropriate and
cost-effective care).
3. What are the 10 Essential Public Health Services? These include
monitoring health status, diagnosing and investigating health problems,
informing and educating people, mobilizing community partnerships,
developing policies, enforcing laws and regulations, linking people to health
services, assuring a competent workforce, evaluating effectiveness, and
researching innovative solutions.
4. What is the difference between public health and medicine? Public health
focuses on population-level prevention and health promotion, while medicine
focuses on treating individual patients and their diseases.
5. What is population health? Population health is the health outcomes of a
group of individuals and the distribution of such outcomes within the group,
including patterns of health determinants.
6. Who is considered the father of modern epidemiology? John Snow, who
investigated the cholera outbreak in London in 1854 and traced it to
contaminated water from the Broad Street pump.
7. What was the significance of the Sanitary Movement? The Sanitary
Movement in the 19th century improved public health through better sanitation,
clean water, waste disposal, and housing conditions, dramatically reducing
infectious disease mortality.
8. What is the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine)
definition of public health? "What we, as a society, do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people can be healthy."
,9. What are health determinants? Health determinants are factors that
influence health status, including biology, behavior, physical environment,
social environment, and health services access.
10. What is the ecological model of health? A framework showing how
individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy factors interact
to influence health behaviors and outcomes.
11. What is primary prevention? Interventions that prevent disease or injury
before it occurs, such as vaccination or safety education.
12. What is secondary prevention? Early detection and treatment of disease to
prevent progression, such as screening programs or regular health checkups.
13. What is tertiary prevention? Managing disease after it has occurred to
slow or stop its progression and prevent complications, such as cardiac
rehabilitation after a heart attack.
14. What is the difference between incidence and prevalence? Incidence
measures new cases of disease in a population over a specific time period, while
prevalence measures all existing cases (both new and old) at a specific point in
time.
15. What is the epidemiologic triangle? A model showing the interaction
between agent (cause of disease), host (organism harboring disease), and
environment (external factors influencing disease transmission).
16. What are social determinants of health? Conditions in the environments
where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect
health outcomes, including economic stability, education, healthcare access,
neighborhood environment, and social context.
17. What is health equity? The state in which everyone has a fair and just
opportunity to attain their highest level of health, requiring removal of obstacles
such as poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to resources.
18. What is a health disparity? Preventable differences in the burden of
disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced
by socially disadvantaged populations.
19. What is the difference between equity and equality? Equality means
treating everyone the same, while equity means providing resources and
opportunities based on individual needs to achieve fair outcomes.
, 20. What is the public health approach to problem-solving? A systematic
four-step process: define the problem, identify risk and protective factors,
develop and test prevention strategies, and ensure widespread adoption.
21. What is surveillance in public health? The ongoing systematic collection,
analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data for planning,
implementing, and evaluating public health practice.
22. What is an outbreak? The occurrence of more cases of disease than
expected in a given area or among a specific group of people over a particular
period of time.
23. What is herd immunity? When a large percentage of a population becomes
immune to a disease (through vaccination or previous infection), providing
indirect protection to those who are not immune.
24. What percentage of the population typically needs to be immune to
achieve herd immunity? This varies by disease but generally ranges from 70-
95%, depending on how contagious the disease is. For measles, approximately
95% immunity is needed.
25. What is the leading cause of death globally? Ischemic heart disease
(coronary artery disease) has been the leading cause of death globally for many
years.
26. What are communicable diseases? Diseases that can be transmitted from
one person to another through various routes including direct contact, airborne
transmission, contaminated food/water, or vectors.
27. What are non-communicable diseases? Diseases that are not transmissible
from person to person, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic
respiratory diseases.
28. What is the epidemiologic transition? The shift in disease patterns from
predominantly infectious diseases to chronic, non-communicable diseases as
countries develop economically and improve sanitation and healthcare.
29. What is the demographic transition? The shift from high birth and death
rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops, typically resulting in
population aging.
30. What is the role of the World Health Organization (WHO)? WHO is the
United Nations agency responsible for international public health, providing
leadership on global health matters, setting health research agendas, establishing
norms and standards, and monitoring health trends.
QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS (PASS GUARANTEE)
1. What is public health? Public health is the science and art of preventing
disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts of
society, communities, and individuals.
2. What are the core functions of public health? The three core functions are
assessment (monitoring health status), policy development (developing policies
to solve health problems), and assurance (ensuring access to appropriate and
cost-effective care).
3. What are the 10 Essential Public Health Services? These include
monitoring health status, diagnosing and investigating health problems,
informing and educating people, mobilizing community partnerships,
developing policies, enforcing laws and regulations, linking people to health
services, assuring a competent workforce, evaluating effectiveness, and
researching innovative solutions.
4. What is the difference between public health and medicine? Public health
focuses on population-level prevention and health promotion, while medicine
focuses on treating individual patients and their diseases.
5. What is population health? Population health is the health outcomes of a
group of individuals and the distribution of such outcomes within the group,
including patterns of health determinants.
6. Who is considered the father of modern epidemiology? John Snow, who
investigated the cholera outbreak in London in 1854 and traced it to
contaminated water from the Broad Street pump.
7. What was the significance of the Sanitary Movement? The Sanitary
Movement in the 19th century improved public health through better sanitation,
clean water, waste disposal, and housing conditions, dramatically reducing
infectious disease mortality.
8. What is the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine)
definition of public health? "What we, as a society, do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people can be healthy."
,9. What are health determinants? Health determinants are factors that
influence health status, including biology, behavior, physical environment,
social environment, and health services access.
10. What is the ecological model of health? A framework showing how
individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy factors interact
to influence health behaviors and outcomes.
11. What is primary prevention? Interventions that prevent disease or injury
before it occurs, such as vaccination or safety education.
12. What is secondary prevention? Early detection and treatment of disease to
prevent progression, such as screening programs or regular health checkups.
13. What is tertiary prevention? Managing disease after it has occurred to
slow or stop its progression and prevent complications, such as cardiac
rehabilitation after a heart attack.
14. What is the difference between incidence and prevalence? Incidence
measures new cases of disease in a population over a specific time period, while
prevalence measures all existing cases (both new and old) at a specific point in
time.
15. What is the epidemiologic triangle? A model showing the interaction
between agent (cause of disease), host (organism harboring disease), and
environment (external factors influencing disease transmission).
16. What are social determinants of health? Conditions in the environments
where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect
health outcomes, including economic stability, education, healthcare access,
neighborhood environment, and social context.
17. What is health equity? The state in which everyone has a fair and just
opportunity to attain their highest level of health, requiring removal of obstacles
such as poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to resources.
18. What is a health disparity? Preventable differences in the burden of
disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced
by socially disadvantaged populations.
19. What is the difference between equity and equality? Equality means
treating everyone the same, while equity means providing resources and
opportunities based on individual needs to achieve fair outcomes.
, 20. What is the public health approach to problem-solving? A systematic
four-step process: define the problem, identify risk and protective factors,
develop and test prevention strategies, and ensure widespread adoption.
21. What is surveillance in public health? The ongoing systematic collection,
analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data for planning,
implementing, and evaluating public health practice.
22. What is an outbreak? The occurrence of more cases of disease than
expected in a given area or among a specific group of people over a particular
period of time.
23. What is herd immunity? When a large percentage of a population becomes
immune to a disease (through vaccination or previous infection), providing
indirect protection to those who are not immune.
24. What percentage of the population typically needs to be immune to
achieve herd immunity? This varies by disease but generally ranges from 70-
95%, depending on how contagious the disease is. For measles, approximately
95% immunity is needed.
25. What is the leading cause of death globally? Ischemic heart disease
(coronary artery disease) has been the leading cause of death globally for many
years.
26. What are communicable diseases? Diseases that can be transmitted from
one person to another through various routes including direct contact, airborne
transmission, contaminated food/water, or vectors.
27. What are non-communicable diseases? Diseases that are not transmissible
from person to person, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic
respiratory diseases.
28. What is the epidemiologic transition? The shift in disease patterns from
predominantly infectious diseases to chronic, non-communicable diseases as
countries develop economically and improve sanitation and healthcare.
29. What is the demographic transition? The shift from high birth and death
rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops, typically resulting in
population aging.
30. What is the role of the World Health Organization (WHO)? WHO is the
United Nations agency responsible for international public health, providing
leadership on global health matters, setting health research agendas, establishing
norms and standards, and monitoring health trends.
