SPHHS-150 Final Exam Review UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Core Functions of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER Assessment, Policy
Development, Assurance
What is the purpose of these services? - CORRECT ANSWER -Provide equal and
equitable opportunities for all people, regardless of race, sexuality, gender, etc to achieve
optimal health
-creates a framework for public health
-promotes policies that dismantle barriers such as poverty, racism, sexism, ableism, etc
10 essential public health services - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Monitor health status to
identify and solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care
when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
10 Essential Public health services (assessment) - CORRECT ANSWER 1.Monitor
health status of a population to identify and solve community environmental health problems
2. Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and hazards within a community
, 10 Essential Public Health Services (Policy Development) - CORRECT ANSWER 3.
Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
10 essential public health services assurance - CORRECT ANSWER 6. enforce laws
and regulations (local & fed)
7. link people to needed personal health services and care
8. assure a competent workforce
9. evaluate (guidelines, evidence-based medicine)
10 research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health problems
Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER A branch of science interested in the
distribution and determinants of health states or health related events in a community. Applies
this study to the control of public health problems
Distribution - CORRECT ANSWER The pattern and frequency of health events in a
population. Does not just imply number sick. But also rate of disease or risk in a population
Rate - CORRECT ANSWER Rate= # of events/population size
To assess, monitor and encourage the demand for needed prevention services in the
community are the goals for what kind of population health management? - CORRECT
ANSWER
Five Disciplines of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER Biostatistics, Epidemiology,
Environmental Health, Social and behavioral health, and health policy
Medicine vs. Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER Medicine: Healing, for the
individual
Public Health: Prevention, for the whole community
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Core Functions of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER Assessment, Policy
Development, Assurance
What is the purpose of these services? - CORRECT ANSWER -Provide equal and
equitable opportunities for all people, regardless of race, sexuality, gender, etc to achieve
optimal health
-creates a framework for public health
-promotes policies that dismantle barriers such as poverty, racism, sexism, ableism, etc
10 essential public health services - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Monitor health status to
identify and solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care
when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
10 Essential Public health services (assessment) - CORRECT ANSWER 1.Monitor
health status of a population to identify and solve community environmental health problems
2. Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and hazards within a community
, 10 Essential Public Health Services (Policy Development) - CORRECT ANSWER 3.
Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
10 essential public health services assurance - CORRECT ANSWER 6. enforce laws
and regulations (local & fed)
7. link people to needed personal health services and care
8. assure a competent workforce
9. evaluate (guidelines, evidence-based medicine)
10 research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health problems
Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER A branch of science interested in the
distribution and determinants of health states or health related events in a community. Applies
this study to the control of public health problems
Distribution - CORRECT ANSWER The pattern and frequency of health events in a
population. Does not just imply number sick. But also rate of disease or risk in a population
Rate - CORRECT ANSWER Rate= # of events/population size
To assess, monitor and encourage the demand for needed prevention services in the
community are the goals for what kind of population health management? - CORRECT
ANSWER
Five Disciplines of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER Biostatistics, Epidemiology,
Environmental Health, Social and behavioral health, and health policy
Medicine vs. Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER Medicine: Healing, for the
individual
Public Health: Prevention, for the whole community
