Public Health Exam #1 || || || ||
Questions With Answers || || ||
The development of public health was influenced by what
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disciplines? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Science and
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Politics
Who is John Snow and how did he influence public
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health? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Father of Modern
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Epidemiology, He removed a water pump that had || || || || || || || ||
contaminated water, causing many in that area to die of || || || || || || || || || ||
cholera. After removal the deaths declined rapidly
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What are the public health core disciplines? - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Epidemiology- spread of diseases within a || || || || ||
population
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Statistics- proof of causation through research (peer || || || || || || ||
reviewed)
Environmental Health Science - inspects various places || || || || || || ||
in the environment (ex: restaurants, power plants)
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Health Education / Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Health Policy and Management (Admin) - need to
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conduct a community health needs assessment (main
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issues in the area they serve, revenue, prevention,
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,community level intervention; changes policies at the || || || || || || ||
university level or making law changes) || || || || ||
What is the difference between public health and medical
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care? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Public Health:
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community level, diagnoses the health of the community || || || || || || || ||
using public health methods (development of coalitions,
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new policies, and interventions), goal is to prevent injury
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and disease, only 3% of nation's total health spending is
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public health related || ||
Medical Care: individual level, goal is to cure,
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*Life expectancy has increased by 30yrs over the 20th
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century and only 5 yrs is attributed to modern medicine
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What are the levels of prevention? - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Primary - prevents an illness or injury || || || || || || ||
from occurring at all (ex: vaccine)
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Secondary - minimizes the severity of the disease or || || || || || || || || ||
injury once it has occurred (ex: screening such as a
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breast examination for breast cancer)
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Tertiary - minimizes disability by providing medical care
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and rehabilitation (ex: Occupational Therapist for stroke)
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What is the public health approach? - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔1. Define the health problem || || || ||
2. Identify risk factors associated with the problem
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, 3. Develop and test community-level interventions to
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control or prevent the cause of the problem
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4. Implement interventions to improve the health of the
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population
5. Monitor interventions to assess their effectiveness
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*PDSA
What is Healthy People 2010/2020/2030 and why is it
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important? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔1. Promote the || || || || || ||
quality of life, healthy development, and healthy
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behaviors across all life stages || || || ||
2. Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable
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disease, disability, injury, and premature death
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3. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and
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improve the health of all groups || || || || || ||
4. Create social and physical environments that
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promotes good health for all || || || ||
*National initiative that is developed every decade to
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improve the health of Americans || || || || ||
*How it's developed: gets input from a diverse group of
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people (subject matter experts, organizations, members
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of the public, etc.), a multiyear process
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*Grants are based on priorities, launched for the first
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time in 2000
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*Ran by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Questions With Answers || || ||
The development of public health was influenced by what
|| || || || || || || ||
disciplines? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Science and
|| || || || || ||
Politics
Who is John Snow and how did he influence public
|| || || || || || || || || ||
health? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Father of Modern
|| || || || || ||
Epidemiology, He removed a water pump that had || || || || || || || ||
contaminated water, causing many in that area to die of || || || || || || || || || ||
cholera. After removal the deaths declined rapidly
|| || || || || ||
What are the public health core disciplines? - CORRECT
|| || || || || || || || ||
ANSWER(S)✔✔Epidemiology- spread of diseases within a || || || || ||
population
||
Statistics- proof of causation through research (peer || || || || || || ||
reviewed)
Environmental Health Science - inspects various places || || || || || || ||
in the environment (ex: restaurants, power plants)
|| || || || || ||
Health Education / Social and Behavioral Sciences
|| || || || || ||
Health Policy and Management (Admin) - need to
|| || || || || || || ||
conduct a community health needs assessment (main
|| || || || || || ||
issues in the area they serve, revenue, prevention,
|| || || || || || || ||
,community level intervention; changes policies at the || || || || || || ||
university level or making law changes) || || || || ||
What is the difference between public health and medical
|| || || || || || || ||
care? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔Public Health:
|| || || || || ||
community level, diagnoses the health of the community || || || || || || || ||
using public health methods (development of coalitions,
|| || || || || || ||
new policies, and interventions), goal is to prevent injury
|| || || || || || || || ||
and disease, only 3% of nation's total health spending is
|| || || || || || || || || ||
public health related || ||
Medical Care: individual level, goal is to cure,
|| || || || || || || ||
*Life expectancy has increased by 30yrs over the 20th
|| || || || || || || || ||
century and only 5 yrs is attributed to modern medicine
|| || || || || || || || ||
What are the levels of prevention? - CORRECT
|| || || || || || || ||
ANSWER(S)✔✔Primary - prevents an illness or injury || || || || || || ||
from occurring at all (ex: vaccine)
|| || || || ||
Secondary - minimizes the severity of the disease or || || || || || || || || ||
injury once it has occurred (ex: screening such as a
|| || || || || || || || || ||
breast examination for breast cancer)
|| || || ||
Tertiary - minimizes disability by providing medical care
|| || || || || || || ||
and rehabilitation (ex: Occupational Therapist for stroke)
|| || || || || ||
What is the public health approach? - CORRECT
|| || || || || || || ||
ANSWER(S)✔✔1. Define the health problem || || || ||
2. Identify risk factors associated with the problem
|| || || || || || ||
, 3. Develop and test community-level interventions to
|| || || || || || ||
control or prevent the cause of the problem
|| || || || || || ||
4. Implement interventions to improve the health of the
|| || || || || || || || ||
population
5. Monitor interventions to assess their effectiveness
|| || || || || ||
*PDSA
What is Healthy People 2010/2020/2030 and why is it
|| || || || || || || || ||
important? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔1. Promote the || || || || || ||
quality of life, healthy development, and healthy
|| || || || || || ||
behaviors across all life stages || || || ||
2. Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable
|| || || || || || || || ||
disease, disability, injury, and premature death
|| || || || || ||
3. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and
|| || || || || || ||
improve the health of all groups || || || || || ||
4. Create social and physical environments that
|| || || || || || ||
promotes good health for all || || || ||
*National initiative that is developed every decade to
|| || || || || || || ||
improve the health of Americans || || || || ||
*How it's developed: gets input from a diverse group of
|| || || || || || || || || ||
people (subject matter experts, organizations, members
|| || || || || ||
of the public, etc.), a multiyear process
|| || || || || || ||
*Grants are based on priorities, launched for the first
|| || || || || || || || ||
time in 2000
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*Ran by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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