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Define health ✔Correct Answer-a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
health as a human right ✔Correct Answer-the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard
of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race,
religion, political belief, economic or social condition
Identify determinants of health ✔Correct Answer-Economic stability, neighborhood and
physical environment, education, food, community and social context, health care system
examples of economic stability ✔Correct Answer-employment, income, expenses, debt,
medical bill, and support
examples of neighborhood and physical environment ✔Correct Answer-housing,
transportation, safety, parks, playgrounds, walkability
education examples ✔Correct Answer-literacy, language, early childhood development,
vocational training, and higher education
food examples ✔Correct Answer-hunger, access to healthy options
community and social context examples ✔Correct Answer-social integration, support systems,
community engagement, discrimination
health care system examples ✔Correct Answer--Health coverage
-Provider availability
-Provider linguistic and cultural competency
-Quality of care
Define public health ✔Correct Answer-the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging
life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort
health outcomes examples ✔Correct Answer-mortality, morbidity, life expectancy, health care
expenditures, health status, functional limitations
identify the mission of public health and its three core functions ✔Correct Answer-fulfilling
society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy -- assurance,
assessment, policy development
, what is public health? ✔Correct Answer--focus on disease and health promotion
-population perspective
- evidence-based- apply scientific and technical knowledge
-considers the role of factors that are outside an individual's control
- aims to prevent a population from experiencing ill health and to achieve health equity,
eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups
Describe how challenges to and for public health have shaped the evolution of public health
practice over time ✔Correct Answer-Public health 1.0- late 1800s tremendous growth of
knowledge and tools for both medicine and public health, uneven access to care and public
health
Public Health 2.0- systematic development of PH governmental agency capacity across the U.S.
Focus limited to traditional PH agency programs (1988)
Public Health 3.0 engage multiple sectors and community partners to generate collective
impact. Improve social determinants of health (2012)
true or false: public health is underappreciated and undervalued ✔Correct Answer-true,
limited resources, country has weak public health system
true or false: determinants of health are NOT complex and multi-faceted ✔Correct Answer-
FALSE
Define evidence-based public health ✔Correct Answer-the development, implementation,
and evaluation of effective programs and policies in public health through application of
principles of scientific reasoning
Identify the steps in the evidence-based public health approach ✔Correct Answer-define the
problem (observation or an assessment), what causes the problem , develop and test
community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause of the problem, implement
interventions to improve the health of the population, monitor those interventions to evaluate
their effectiveness
dose-response relationship ✔Correct Answer-the relationship between the different doses
and the responses they generate
biologic plausibility ✔Correct Answer-the reasonable expectation that the human body could
behave in the manner predicted
Discuss the use of data in support of evidence-based decision-making in public health
✔Correct Answer-gathered information about community health needs and preferences -