SPH 200 FINAL EXAM - ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANWERS | SPRING 2026 | WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS.
public health - (answer)the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community
APAE - (answer)assessment, planning, action, and evaluation
12 great public health achievements - (answer)acting on social determinants of health, control of
infectious disease, decline in dealths from heart disease and strokes, family planning, healthier
environments, motor vehicle safety, recognition of tobacco as a health hazard, safer and heathier foods,
safer workpleaces , universal polices, vaccination, healthy mothers and babies
public health vs healthcare - (answer)individual patients vs community population
sciences of public health - (answer)biostastistics, epidemiology, health policy and managment, health
promotion, environmental health
Determinants of health - (answer)Factors that raise or lower a level of health in a population or
individual. Determinants of health help to explain or predict trends in health and why some groups have
better or worse health than others.
risk - (answer)Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the likelihood of loss or reduced
profit.
hazard - (answer)A danger or risk.
exposure - (answer)to come in contact
Hippocratic Corpus - (answer)a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works strongly
associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings
separated religion and medicine
, SPH 200 FINAL EXAM - ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANWERS | SPRING 2026 | WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS.
miasma - (answer)a noxious or poisonous atmosphere
bubonic plague - (answer)disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed
1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas.
John Snow - (answer)father of modern epidemiology, he was critical of the miasma theory. He
investigated the cholera outbreaks
aqueducts - (answer)these and sewers were ways to move fresh water from a source to a population
and then move human waste away
WASH - (answer)imporving sanitation and hygiene facilities
smallpox and jenner - (answer)smallpox is highly contagious, cause by variola virus. It is transmitted
through respiratory droplets. Jenner was first vaccine to prevent
jenners experiments - (answer)took puss from a cowpox pustule on the hand of a milkmaid, it was
injected into the arm of a boy and some soreness resulted. he then gave the kid some smallpox and he
was fine
variolate - (answer)another form of vaccination
when was public health first recognized in Canada - (answer)1947 it was recognized by the Royal College
of physicians and surgeons of canada
The ottawa charter for health promotion - (answer)health promotion, peace and shelter and education
are needed for health
Prevalence - (answer)The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a
population at a given time.
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS.
public health - (answer)the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community
APAE - (answer)assessment, planning, action, and evaluation
12 great public health achievements - (answer)acting on social determinants of health, control of
infectious disease, decline in dealths from heart disease and strokes, family planning, healthier
environments, motor vehicle safety, recognition of tobacco as a health hazard, safer and heathier foods,
safer workpleaces , universal polices, vaccination, healthy mothers and babies
public health vs healthcare - (answer)individual patients vs community population
sciences of public health - (answer)biostastistics, epidemiology, health policy and managment, health
promotion, environmental health
Determinants of health - (answer)Factors that raise or lower a level of health in a population or
individual. Determinants of health help to explain or predict trends in health and why some groups have
better or worse health than others.
risk - (answer)Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the likelihood of loss or reduced
profit.
hazard - (answer)A danger or risk.
exposure - (answer)to come in contact
Hippocratic Corpus - (answer)a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works strongly
associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings
separated religion and medicine
, SPH 200 FINAL EXAM - ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANWERS | SPRING 2026 | WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS.
miasma - (answer)a noxious or poisonous atmosphere
bubonic plague - (answer)disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed
1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas.
John Snow - (answer)father of modern epidemiology, he was critical of the miasma theory. He
investigated the cholera outbreaks
aqueducts - (answer)these and sewers were ways to move fresh water from a source to a population
and then move human waste away
WASH - (answer)imporving sanitation and hygiene facilities
smallpox and jenner - (answer)smallpox is highly contagious, cause by variola virus. It is transmitted
through respiratory droplets. Jenner was first vaccine to prevent
jenners experiments - (answer)took puss from a cowpox pustule on the hand of a milkmaid, it was
injected into the arm of a boy and some soreness resulted. he then gave the kid some smallpox and he
was fine
variolate - (answer)another form of vaccination
when was public health first recognized in Canada - (answer)1947 it was recognized by the Royal College
of physicians and surgeons of canada
The ottawa charter for health promotion - (answer)health promotion, peace and shelter and education
are needed for health
Prevalence - (answer)The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a
population at a given time.
