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Public health is the science of protecting and improving the
health and safety of people and their communities. Choose the
work public health professionals carry out to do this from the
list below: - ANSWER Participate in policy making
Educate the public and promote healthy lifestyles
Research disease and injury prevention
Work to limit health disparities
There are many ways to define heath. How does the World
Health Organization define health? - ANSWER A state of
complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity
Public health and clinical care both require knowledge of
medicine and health, but they both focus on different aspects
of ensuring the health and safety of populations. Public health
professionals focus on the bio-science of health and work to
heal the individual. Clinical professionals, on the other hand,
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work at the community level to prevent health problems from
happening or recurring. - ANSWER False---
Public health and clinical care both require knowledge of
medicine and health, but they both focus on different aspects
of ensuring the health and safety of populations.
Public health professionals treat the community and work to
prevent health problems from happening or recurring
Clinical professionals treat the individual and focus primarily on
treating individuals after they become sick or injured
Public health professionals address health problems in a
systematic way. This process involves five steps. The steps are
listed below. Put them in order from the first step to the last
step. - ANSWER step one: define the health problem
step two: identify the risk factors associated with the problem
step three: develop and test community level interventions to
control or prevent the cause of the problem
step four: implement interventions to improve the health of the
population
step five: monitor those interventions to assess their
effectiveness
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The science of public health requires input from six disciplines
to successfully carry out efforts to ensure the health and safety
of a population. Which two disciplines are missing from the
following list?
Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Health management and policy
Environmental health - ANSWER social and behavioral health
and biosciences
The main task of prevention is to develop interventions
designed to prevent health issues identified in the assessment
process. One approach to developing an intervention is
addressing the health issue at three levels of prevention. Match
the focus of an intervention with the level of prevention below:
- ANSWER primary prevention: prevents exposure to risk factors
secondary prevention: minimizes severity of impact if exposed
to risk factor
tertiary prevention: provides medical care and rehab services