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public health ✔Correct Answer-totality of all evidence-based public and private efforts that
preserve and promote health and prevent disease, disability and death
determinants of health ✔Correct Answer-behavior, infections, genetics, geography,
environment, medical care, socioeconomic cultural
James Lind ✔Correct Answer-associated eating citrus fruits and scurvy among sailors
Edward Jenner ✔Correct Answer-developed first vaccine for smallpox from coxpox
John Snow ✔Correct Answer-father of epidemiology; studied outbreak of cholera and its
disease distribution by mapping it out
Epidemiological Theory ✔Correct Answer-disease does not distribute randomly in human
populations, distributions of persona and place are important, outcome is related to specific
exposures and doses of exposure
Miasma Phase accomplishments ✔Correct Answer-first state health department (MA); APHA;
disease control efforts towards general cleanliness
Contagion Control Phase ✔Correct Answer-1880-1940s; improvements in sanitary conditions
through large infrastructure projects and improved housing conditions
Miasma Phase ✔Correct Answer-1850-1880; hygiene phase
Social Engineering Phase ✔Correct Answer-became apparent that technical health advances
and resources were not equally available to all people; large investments not in public health
but had effect on public health (hospitals, health-person power, biomedical knowledge from
research, medicare and medicaid to close gap between rich and poor)
health ✔Correct Answer-state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
epidemiology ✔Correct Answer-branch of science that deals with the incidence, distribution,
and control of disease in a population
biostatistics ✔Correct Answer-statistics applied to the analysis of biological data
environmental health sciences ✔Correct Answer-environmental factors that affect human
health
, health policy and management ✔Correct Answer-focuses on the delivery of care
social and behavioral sciences ✔Correct Answer-Address the behavioral, social and cultural
factors related to individual and population health and health disparities over the life course;
contributes programs and policy
major achievements of 20th century ✔Correct Answer-vaccination, motor vehicle safety, safer
workplaces, control of infectious diseases, decline deaths from coronary heart disease and
stroke, safe and healthier foods, healthier mothers and babies, family planning, fluoridation of
drinking water, recognition of tobacco as a health hazard
incidence rate ✔Correct Answer-number of new cases of a disease in a year over the number
of people in the at risk population; development of new cases of the disease in previously
disease free individuals
P.E.R.I.E. ✔Correct Answer-problem, etiology, recommendations, implementation, evaluation
describe the problem ✔Correct Answer-burden of disease; morbidity and mortality
prevalence ✔Correct Answer-the presence of a disease or condition in a population, which
includes new cases as well as previously existing cases
prevalence rate ✔Correct Answer-number of living with a particular disease over number in
the at-risk population
Case-control study ✔Correct Answer-cause is associated with effect
cohort study ✔Correct Answer-cause precedes effect, has group of interest and comparison
group follow both over time and compare outcomes
etiology ✔Correct Answer-cause of a problem
randomized controlled trials ✔Correct Answer-manipulation of cause changes effect
ancillary support ✔Correct Answer-strength of relationship, dose-response relationship,
consistency of relationship, biological plausibility
recommendation ✔Correct Answer-evidence based practice, indicate if actions should or
should not be taken
evaluation ✔Correct Answer-REAIM; reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation,
maintenance