PHC 4101 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026
Define public health - Answers health promotion and disease prevention, across human populations
How does public health treat - Answers targets populations and goal is to prevent disease
How does medicine treat - Answers targets individuals and goal is to treat disease
Primary prevention - Answers how to reduce or eliminate risk factors that cause disease. (wash
hands, vaccine, education)
Secondary prevention - Answers screening or testing (blood work, colonoscopy)
Tertiary prevention - Answers Prevent disability and death
Core Functions of public health - Answers assessment, policy development, assurance
How many essential services in core functions - Answers 10
Objective of healthy people - Answers promote health and well being, established in 1979
Goals of Healthy people 2030 - Answers Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of
preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death.
Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health
and well-being of all.
Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining full potential for health
and well-being for all.
Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors and well-being across all life stages.
Engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple sectors to take action and design
policies that improve the health and well-being of all.
Life course perspective - Answers Elder 1988
offers multidimensional approach to understand growth + development from conception to death
5 aspects of LCD - Answers 1. life course
2. human agency
3. timing
4. time and place
5. linked lives
life transitions - Answers discrete stages people progress through
Life trajectories - Answers long term patterns of stability and growth
Social determinants of health - Answers conditions in the environments in which people are born,
live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of
life outcomes and risks
5 SDOH - Answers 1. economic stability
2. access and quality education
3. healthcare access and quality
4. neighborhood and built environment
5. social and community context
economic stability - Answers 1 in 10 people in U.S. live poverty
Health care access and quality - Answers 1 in 10 in U.S. don't have insurance
who is most at risk for neighborhood and built environment SDOH - Answers low income and racial
moniorities
Evidence based public health interventions - Answers policies, programs, strategies, activities,
services
T/F Paying for prevention costs less than intervention - Answers True
Define public health - Answers health promotion and disease prevention, across human populations
How does public health treat - Answers targets populations and goal is to prevent disease
How does medicine treat - Answers targets individuals and goal is to treat disease
Primary prevention - Answers how to reduce or eliminate risk factors that cause disease. (wash
hands, vaccine, education)
Secondary prevention - Answers screening or testing (blood work, colonoscopy)
Tertiary prevention - Answers Prevent disability and death
Core Functions of public health - Answers assessment, policy development, assurance
How many essential services in core functions - Answers 10
Objective of healthy people - Answers promote health and well being, established in 1979
Goals of Healthy people 2030 - Answers Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of
preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death.
Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health
and well-being of all.
Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining full potential for health
and well-being for all.
Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors and well-being across all life stages.
Engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple sectors to take action and design
policies that improve the health and well-being of all.
Life course perspective - Answers Elder 1988
offers multidimensional approach to understand growth + development from conception to death
5 aspects of LCD - Answers 1. life course
2. human agency
3. timing
4. time and place
5. linked lives
life transitions - Answers discrete stages people progress through
Life trajectories - Answers long term patterns of stability and growth
Social determinants of health - Answers conditions in the environments in which people are born,
live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of
life outcomes and risks
5 SDOH - Answers 1. economic stability
2. access and quality education
3. healthcare access and quality
4. neighborhood and built environment
5. social and community context
economic stability - Answers 1 in 10 people in U.S. live poverty
Health care access and quality - Answers 1 in 10 in U.S. don't have insurance
who is most at risk for neighborhood and built environment SDOH - Answers low income and racial
moniorities
Evidence based public health interventions - Answers policies, programs, strategies, activities,
services
T/F Paying for prevention costs less than intervention - Answers True
