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What is Public Health ✔Correct Answer-"What we as a society do collectively to assure the
conditions in which people can be healthy"- IOM
Public Health and Prevention ✔Correct Answer-Public health professionals try to prevent problems
from happening or re-occurring.
Public Health and Population Focus ✔Correct Answer-Public health is concerned with protecting
the health of entire populations.
These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country.
Definition of Health ✔Correct Answer-"A state of COMPLETE physical, mental, and social well-
being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." --World Health Organization (WHO)
10 Major Public Health Achievements ✔Correct Answer-1.Vaccination
2.Motor-vehicle safety
3.Safer workplaces
4.Control of infectious diseases
5.Decline in death from coronary heart disease and stroke
6.Safer and healthier foods
7.Healthier mothers and babies
8.Family planning
9.Flouridation of drinking water
10.Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
Core functions of public health ✔Correct Answer-1. Assessment
2.Policy Development
3.Assurance
Assessment ✔Correct Answer-Assemble, analyze and make available information on the health of
the community, including statistics on health status, community health needs, and epidemiologic and
other studies of health problems.
Policy Development ✔Correct Answer-Every public health agency shall exercise its responsibility to
serve the public interest in the development of comprehensive public health policies by promoting
use of the scientific knowledge base in decision-making about public health and by leading in
developing public health policy.
Assurance ✔Correct Answer-Public health agencies should assure their constituents that services
necessary to achieve agreed upon goals are provided, either by:
-Encouraging actions by other entities (private or public sector)
-Requiring action through regulation
-Providing services directly
, 4 sections of Public Health Infrastructure ✔Correct Answer-1.Federal Level
2.State Level
3.Local Level
4.Nongovermental Organizations (NGOs)
Federal Level ✔Correct Answer-Funding: Federal Taxes
-DHHS plays the largest role
-others include: Department of Homeland Security, Education, Agriculture, Defense, Transportation
etc
DHHS Functions ✔Correct Answer--Policy making
-Financing
-Public health protection
State Level ✔Correct Answer-Funding: State taxes and Federal Grants
-Funded mainly from state taxes and federal grants
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) ✔Correct Answer--Non-profit groups that operate
independently from the gov't
-Critical to carrying out public health initiatives through education, lobbying, research
Local Level ✔Correct Answer-Funding:
-Local property/sales taxes
-funding from the state
-funding for specific services from the federal gov't, fees for services
Impact of industrialization and imperialism ✔Correct Answer--Rapid industrialization meant an
increasingly urban population
-Indecent housing, poverty, overcrowding, overflowing cesspools, contaminated water supplies, and
hunger
The Great Sanitary Awakening ✔Correct Answer-Edwin Chadwick
-Shift from quarantine and isolation to cleaning up and improving the common environment
Lemuel Shattuck ✔Correct Answer--Created America's blueprint for development of a public
health system
-attributed the differences to urbanization, foulness of the air, and immoral lifestyle.
-His report recommended: regular surveys of local health conditions, special studies of specific
diseases, education of health providers in preventive medicine, and establishing the fundamental
usefulness of keeping records and vital statistics.
John Snow ✔Correct Answer--a physician