KINE 2350 Midterm UTA UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Focus of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER - preventing disease and promotion of health
Charles-Edward A. Winslow - CORRECT ANSWER - early founder public health and that he
came up with one of the first definitions of public health "the science and art of preventing disease,
prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort"
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - monitor health status to identify and solve community health
problems. Diagnose and investigate health problems. Ex: vital statistics, community health profile, health
status, epidemiological surveillance systems
Policy Development - CORRECT ANSWER - inform, educate, and empower people about health
issues, mobilize community partnerships, develop policies and plans ex: health promotion and social
marketing, health system planning
Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER - enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure
safety, link people to needed personal health services and ensure the provision of health care ex:
enforcement of health codes, continuous evaluation of public health programs
Social determinants of health - CORRECT ANSWER - conditions in which people are born, grow-
up, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illnesses that
affect health and growing and quality of life
Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER - study of populations to seek the causes of health and
disease
Health Promotion - CORRECT ANSWER - planned combination of educational, political,
regulatory, and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living
, Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - scientific discipline or method, way of gathering and analyzing
data
Environmental - CORRECT ANSWER - Preventing the spread of disease through water, air, and
food
Biomedical Sciences - CORRECT ANSWER - study of the biological basis of human health and
disease (genetics, immunology, etc.)
Social and Behavioral - CORRECT ANSWER - Influences of individual behavior and social
environment
High Risk Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - focuses on those with the highest probability of
developing disease and aims to bring their risk close to the levels experienced by the rest of the
population
Improving the average approach - CORRECT ANSWER - focuses on the entire population and
aims to reduce the risk for everyone
Health Protection Era - CORRECT ANSWER - (antiquity-1830s) Diseases may be prevented by
enforced regulation of human behavior, mediated through societies' social structures.
Miasma Control Era - CORRECT ANSWER - (1840s-1870s) Addressing unsanitary
environmental conditions may prevent diseases.
Contagion Control Era - CORRECT ANSWER - (1880s-1930s) Germ Theory: positivist approach
to demonstration of infectious origins of diseases.
Preventative Medicine Era - CORRECT ANSWER - (1940s-1960s) Improvements in public health
through focus on the prevention and cure of diseases in "high-risk groups."
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Focus of Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER - preventing disease and promotion of health
Charles-Edward A. Winslow - CORRECT ANSWER - early founder public health and that he
came up with one of the first definitions of public health "the science and art of preventing disease,
prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort"
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - monitor health status to identify and solve community health
problems. Diagnose and investigate health problems. Ex: vital statistics, community health profile, health
status, epidemiological surveillance systems
Policy Development - CORRECT ANSWER - inform, educate, and empower people about health
issues, mobilize community partnerships, develop policies and plans ex: health promotion and social
marketing, health system planning
Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER - enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure
safety, link people to needed personal health services and ensure the provision of health care ex:
enforcement of health codes, continuous evaluation of public health programs
Social determinants of health - CORRECT ANSWER - conditions in which people are born, grow-
up, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illnesses that
affect health and growing and quality of life
Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER - study of populations to seek the causes of health and
disease
Health Promotion - CORRECT ANSWER - planned combination of educational, political,
regulatory, and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living
, Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER - scientific discipline or method, way of gathering and analyzing
data
Environmental - CORRECT ANSWER - Preventing the spread of disease through water, air, and
food
Biomedical Sciences - CORRECT ANSWER - study of the biological basis of human health and
disease (genetics, immunology, etc.)
Social and Behavioral - CORRECT ANSWER - Influences of individual behavior and social
environment
High Risk Approach - CORRECT ANSWER - focuses on those with the highest probability of
developing disease and aims to bring their risk close to the levels experienced by the rest of the
population
Improving the average approach - CORRECT ANSWER - focuses on the entire population and
aims to reduce the risk for everyone
Health Protection Era - CORRECT ANSWER - (antiquity-1830s) Diseases may be prevented by
enforced regulation of human behavior, mediated through societies' social structures.
Miasma Control Era - CORRECT ANSWER - (1840s-1870s) Addressing unsanitary
environmental conditions may prevent diseases.
Contagion Control Era - CORRECT ANSWER - (1880s-1930s) Germ Theory: positivist approach
to demonstration of infectious origins of diseases.
Preventative Medicine Era - CORRECT ANSWER - (1940s-1960s) Improvements in public health
through focus on the prevention and cure of diseases in "high-risk groups."
