PUBH 302 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026
Three Guiding Questions - Answers -1. Why is this a PH Problem?? (who is the
population at risk
2. What are the factors/determinants involved in this problem?
3. What controversial and/or ethical concerns may be involved?
Are Risk Factors Public Health Problems? - Answers -NO
What factors determine disease, disability, and death? - Answers -Contributory causes
What is a contributory cause? - Answers -the IMMEDIATE causes of disease, disability,
death
What is a determinant of health? - Answers -An underlying factor that ultimately bring
about disease, disability, and death
Why is PH controversial? - Answers -1. Economic Impact
2. Individual Liberty
3. Moral and Religious opposition
Intellectual health is ... - Answers -the ability to make sound decisions and think
critically
Physical health is... - Answers -absence of disease and disability; functioning
adequately; physical condition of the body
Emotional Health is... - Answers -ability to feel and express full range of human
emotions; express/control appropriately
Social health is... - Answers -The ability to get along well with others and communicate
effectively
Spiritual health is... - Answers -unifying force within individuals; meaning in life;
common bond between individuals; individual perceptions of faith
Environmental health is... - Answers -awareness of the environment's importance to
health, as well as human influence on environment
Financial health is... - Answers -how your financial/economic resources affect your
physical, mental and social health
Occupational health is... - Answers -ideally, we have a sense of satisfaction with our
work/career; gaining satisfaction and meaning through work is a positive
, Examples of Determinants of Health... - Answers -Behavior, Infection, Genetics,
Geography, Environment, Medical Care, and Socioeconomic-cultural
Define Public Health... - Answers -what we as a society do collectively to assure the
conditions in which people can be healthy...TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND QUALITY OF
LIFE BY PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING DISEASE, INJURY, AND DISABILITY
Define Population Health.... - Answers -the health outcomes of a group of individuals,
including the distribution of such outcomes within the group -- everyone has their own
perspective, mortality, morbidity
What are the three levels of prevention? - Answers -Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
What is primary prevention? - Answers -efforts that forestall onset of illness or injury
before evidence of symptoms, signs
What is secondary prevention? - Answers -Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or
illness that you cannot completely prevent.
What is tertiary prevention? - Answers -Rehabilitative therapies and monitoring of
health to prevent complications or further illness, injury, or disability
What is group survival? - Answers -the basis of Public Health,
I.e needed to protect mom's because they can procreate, eating something and then
dropping dead
What are the requirements of survival? - Answers -Hierarchy of needs:
Care
Shelter
Food
Water
Air
What did the Ancient Greeks have to do with Public Health? - Answers -- Personal
Hygiene
- Physical Fitness (Olympics)
- Naturalistic concept - disease caused by imbalance between man and his environment
What did Hippocrates do for Public Health? - Answers -- Coined the term epidemic
- Oath is foundation - don't hurt people
What did the Roman Empire have to do with Public Health? - Answers -- Adopted
Greek health values
- Great engineers (sewage and aqueducts)
- Administration (public baths, water supply, markets)
Three Guiding Questions - Answers -1. Why is this a PH Problem?? (who is the
population at risk
2. What are the factors/determinants involved in this problem?
3. What controversial and/or ethical concerns may be involved?
Are Risk Factors Public Health Problems? - Answers -NO
What factors determine disease, disability, and death? - Answers -Contributory causes
What is a contributory cause? - Answers -the IMMEDIATE causes of disease, disability,
death
What is a determinant of health? - Answers -An underlying factor that ultimately bring
about disease, disability, and death
Why is PH controversial? - Answers -1. Economic Impact
2. Individual Liberty
3. Moral and Religious opposition
Intellectual health is ... - Answers -the ability to make sound decisions and think
critically
Physical health is... - Answers -absence of disease and disability; functioning
adequately; physical condition of the body
Emotional Health is... - Answers -ability to feel and express full range of human
emotions; express/control appropriately
Social health is... - Answers -The ability to get along well with others and communicate
effectively
Spiritual health is... - Answers -unifying force within individuals; meaning in life;
common bond between individuals; individual perceptions of faith
Environmental health is... - Answers -awareness of the environment's importance to
health, as well as human influence on environment
Financial health is... - Answers -how your financial/economic resources affect your
physical, mental and social health
Occupational health is... - Answers -ideally, we have a sense of satisfaction with our
work/career; gaining satisfaction and meaning through work is a positive
, Examples of Determinants of Health... - Answers -Behavior, Infection, Genetics,
Geography, Environment, Medical Care, and Socioeconomic-cultural
Define Public Health... - Answers -what we as a society do collectively to assure the
conditions in which people can be healthy...TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND QUALITY OF
LIFE BY PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING DISEASE, INJURY, AND DISABILITY
Define Population Health.... - Answers -the health outcomes of a group of individuals,
including the distribution of such outcomes within the group -- everyone has their own
perspective, mortality, morbidity
What are the three levels of prevention? - Answers -Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
What is primary prevention? - Answers -efforts that forestall onset of illness or injury
before evidence of symptoms, signs
What is secondary prevention? - Answers -Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or
illness that you cannot completely prevent.
What is tertiary prevention? - Answers -Rehabilitative therapies and monitoring of
health to prevent complications or further illness, injury, or disability
What is group survival? - Answers -the basis of Public Health,
I.e needed to protect mom's because they can procreate, eating something and then
dropping dead
What are the requirements of survival? - Answers -Hierarchy of needs:
Care
Shelter
Food
Water
Air
What did the Ancient Greeks have to do with Public Health? - Answers -- Personal
Hygiene
- Physical Fitness (Olympics)
- Naturalistic concept - disease caused by imbalance between man and his environment
What did Hippocrates do for Public Health? - Answers -- Coined the term epidemic
- Oath is foundation - don't hurt people
What did the Roman Empire have to do with Public Health? - Answers -- Adopted
Greek health values
- Great engineers (sewage and aqueducts)
- Administration (public baths, water supply, markets)
