HLTH 2000 ECU EXAM 1 Questions
And Answers
/.HEALTH - Answer-✅"Not merely an absence of disease or infirmity but a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well being."
/.T - Answer-✅HEALTH is Multidimensional
T/F
/.Dimensions of Health - Answer-✅Social
Physical
Spiritual
Environmental
Intellectual
Emotional
/.Determinants of Health - Answer-✅Heredity
Environmental
Health Care Services
Behavior
/.Public Health - Answer-✅Concerned with the prevention of disease and disability. It is
aimed at benefiting the entire population in contrast with medicine, which focuses on the
individual
/.Public Health Vision - Answer-✅Healthy People in Healthy Communities
/.Public Health Mission - Answer-✅Promote physical and mental health and
Prevent disease, injury, disability
/.Personal health activities - Answer-✅Individual actions and decision making that affect
the health of an individual or his or her immediate family members or friends
/.Community/public health activities - Answer-✅Activities aimed at protecting or
improving the health of a population or community
Maintaining birth and death records, protecting food and water supply, etc.
/.Public Health - Answer-✅Prevents epidemics and the spread of disease
Protects against environmental hazards
Prevents injuries
,Promotes and encourages healthy behaviors
Responds to disasters and assists communities in recovery
Assures the quality and accessibility of health services
/.Sciences of Public Health - Answer-✅Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Environmental Health
Health Policy and Management
/.Epidemiology - Answer-✅The study of epidemics.
Focuses on outbreaks of disease
the basis for the assessment functions of public health.
Involves the collection and analysis of information. look for common exposures or
shared characteristics seeking causative factor
/.Biostatistics - Answer-✅Public health deals with statistics and the numbers are used
as diagnostic tools. They tell us how sick or healthy a society is and where the
weakness is.
The science is used to calculate risks, understand concepts and calculations.
/.Social and behavioral sciences - Answer-✅People in modern society are dying of
diseases caused by their behaviors and social environment.
Focused on health related behaviors and ways to prevent self-destructive behaviors.
/.Environmental health - Answer-✅Focused on preventing the spread of disease
through water, air and food.
Concerned about the spread of infectious organisms with biomedical sciences and
depends on epidemiology to track environmental causes of disease outbreaks that are a
threat to public health.
/.Health policy and management - Answer-✅Concerns about runaway costs of health
care, lack of access and quality of care has led to an increasing interest in studying the
medical care system, its effectiveness, efficiency and equity.
/.Assessment - Answer-✅Monitor health status to identify community health problems
Diagnose and investigate problems and hazards
/.Policy Development - Answer-✅Inform, educate and empower people
Mobilize community partnerships
Develop policy
/.Assurance - Answer-✅Enforce laws and regulations
Link people to services
Assure a competent public health workforce
, /.Public Health Functions - Answer-✅Public Health diagnoses and treats the
community's ills by way of assessment, policy development, and assurance
/.Pre-Modern Era - Answer-✅Early Humans
Learning occurred by observation, as well as by trial and error
Development of rules and taboos
Believed in influence of evil spirits and gods
/.Age of Enlightenment - Answer-✅1700s were a period of revolution, industrialization
and growth of cities
Cities overcrowded, water supplies inadequate/unsanitary, problems with trash,
workplaces unsafe
Health Education/Promotion still not emerged as a profession
Average age at death: 28 years
/.Miasmas - Answer-✅disease formed in filth and caused by noxious vapors
/.The Nineteenth Century: 1800s - Answer-✅Overcrowding in cities, caused many
public health problems - small pox, cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis reached high
endemic levels
Due to tremendous advancements in the second half of the ____________ it became
known as the bacteriological period of public health
/.Lemuel Shattuck's Health Report: - Answer-✅1850
Establishment of Boards of health
The collection of vital statistics
The implementation of sanitary measures
Research on disease
Health education
Controlling exposure to alcohol, smoke, adulterated foods and quack medicine.
/.Dr. John Snow - Answer-✅1849 Broad Street Pump
(Funny Pic)
/.Louis Pasteur, France - Answer-✅1862: Proposed Germ theory
/.Robert Koch, Germany - Answer-✅1870
Developed criteria necessary to establish particular microbe causes to particular
diseases
Once it was discovered what caused disease, they could begin working on how to
prevent it.
And Answers
/.HEALTH - Answer-✅"Not merely an absence of disease or infirmity but a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well being."
/.T - Answer-✅HEALTH is Multidimensional
T/F
/.Dimensions of Health - Answer-✅Social
Physical
Spiritual
Environmental
Intellectual
Emotional
/.Determinants of Health - Answer-✅Heredity
Environmental
Health Care Services
Behavior
/.Public Health - Answer-✅Concerned with the prevention of disease and disability. It is
aimed at benefiting the entire population in contrast with medicine, which focuses on the
individual
/.Public Health Vision - Answer-✅Healthy People in Healthy Communities
/.Public Health Mission - Answer-✅Promote physical and mental health and
Prevent disease, injury, disability
/.Personal health activities - Answer-✅Individual actions and decision making that affect
the health of an individual or his or her immediate family members or friends
/.Community/public health activities - Answer-✅Activities aimed at protecting or
improving the health of a population or community
Maintaining birth and death records, protecting food and water supply, etc.
/.Public Health - Answer-✅Prevents epidemics and the spread of disease
Protects against environmental hazards
Prevents injuries
,Promotes and encourages healthy behaviors
Responds to disasters and assists communities in recovery
Assures the quality and accessibility of health services
/.Sciences of Public Health - Answer-✅Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Environmental Health
Health Policy and Management
/.Epidemiology - Answer-✅The study of epidemics.
Focuses on outbreaks of disease
the basis for the assessment functions of public health.
Involves the collection and analysis of information. look for common exposures or
shared characteristics seeking causative factor
/.Biostatistics - Answer-✅Public health deals with statistics and the numbers are used
as diagnostic tools. They tell us how sick or healthy a society is and where the
weakness is.
The science is used to calculate risks, understand concepts and calculations.
/.Social and behavioral sciences - Answer-✅People in modern society are dying of
diseases caused by their behaviors and social environment.
Focused on health related behaviors and ways to prevent self-destructive behaviors.
/.Environmental health - Answer-✅Focused on preventing the spread of disease
through water, air and food.
Concerned about the spread of infectious organisms with biomedical sciences and
depends on epidemiology to track environmental causes of disease outbreaks that are a
threat to public health.
/.Health policy and management - Answer-✅Concerns about runaway costs of health
care, lack of access and quality of care has led to an increasing interest in studying the
medical care system, its effectiveness, efficiency and equity.
/.Assessment - Answer-✅Monitor health status to identify community health problems
Diagnose and investigate problems and hazards
/.Policy Development - Answer-✅Inform, educate and empower people
Mobilize community partnerships
Develop policy
/.Assurance - Answer-✅Enforce laws and regulations
Link people to services
Assure a competent public health workforce
, /.Public Health Functions - Answer-✅Public Health diagnoses and treats the
community's ills by way of assessment, policy development, and assurance
/.Pre-Modern Era - Answer-✅Early Humans
Learning occurred by observation, as well as by trial and error
Development of rules and taboos
Believed in influence of evil spirits and gods
/.Age of Enlightenment - Answer-✅1700s were a period of revolution, industrialization
and growth of cities
Cities overcrowded, water supplies inadequate/unsanitary, problems with trash,
workplaces unsafe
Health Education/Promotion still not emerged as a profession
Average age at death: 28 years
/.Miasmas - Answer-✅disease formed in filth and caused by noxious vapors
/.The Nineteenth Century: 1800s - Answer-✅Overcrowding in cities, caused many
public health problems - small pox, cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis reached high
endemic levels
Due to tremendous advancements in the second half of the ____________ it became
known as the bacteriological period of public health
/.Lemuel Shattuck's Health Report: - Answer-✅1850
Establishment of Boards of health
The collection of vital statistics
The implementation of sanitary measures
Research on disease
Health education
Controlling exposure to alcohol, smoke, adulterated foods and quack medicine.
/.Dr. John Snow - Answer-✅1849 Broad Street Pump
(Funny Pic)
/.Louis Pasteur, France - Answer-✅1862: Proposed Germ theory
/.Robert Koch, Germany - Answer-✅1870
Developed criteria necessary to establish particular microbe causes to particular
diseases
Once it was discovered what caused disease, they could begin working on how to
prevent it.
