CPH Full Study Guide with Detailed
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1. WHO definition of health - ANSWER "As a state of complete physical,
mental and social well‑being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity."
2. Sharma & Rosas definition of health - ANSWER "A means to achieve
desirable goals in life while maintaining a multidimensional equilibrium..."
3. Community - ANSWER A group of individuals who share common
interests and characteristics.
4. Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
Public Health: Biostatistics, Epidemiology, etc. - ANSWER Basic sciences
(Medicine vs Public Health)
5. Medicine: Helping one patient
Public Health: Benefiting many people - ANSWER Priority (Medicine vs
Public Health)
6. Medicine: High
Public Health: Low per capita - ANSWER Cost (Medicine vs Public Health)
,7. Medicine: Sophisticated
Public Health: Local and simple - ANSWER Technology (Medicine vs Public
Health)
8. Surveillance - ANSWER What is the problem?
9. Risk factor identification - ANSWER What is the cause?
10.Intervention evaluation - ANSWER What works?
11.Implementation - ANSWER How do you do it?
12.Evaluation - ANSWER Did it work?
13.Assessment - ANSWER Collecting, analyzing, and monitoring health data
(trends, hazards, vital statistics).
14.Policy development - ANSWER Using data to create policies, plans, and
health promotion programs.
15.Assurance - ANSWER Ensuring services, enforcing laws, evaluating
outcomes, ensuring workforce competence.
16.Visible cases - ANSWER Clinical and diagnosed illness.
17.Hidden cases - ANSWER Asymptomatic, pre‑symptomatic, latent,
deliberately ignored.
,18.Invisible cases - ANSWER Asymptomatic infection ("carriers").
19.Select the qualitative method that collects data through a simultaneous
conversation with a group of people.
1.key informant interviews
2.discourse analysis
3.surveys
4.focus groups - ANSWER 4.focus groups
20.Promotion, protection, and maintenance - ANSWER Three fundamental
functions of a community
21.Green & Ottoson definition of community health - ANSWER Health status
of the community plus organized responsibilities of public health, school
health, transportation, safety, and voluntary/private actions.
22.Institute of Medicine definition of public health - ANSWER Organized
community efforts to prevent disease and promote health from small
communities to entire countries.
23.Mission, substance, organizational framework. - ANSWER Three essential
parts of public health definition
24.Population health - ANSWER Health status of people who may or may not
identify as a community, plus efforts directed toward them.
, 25.International health - ANSWER Examines health problems in multiple
(mainly developing) countries and finds population‑based solutions.
26.Global health - ANSWER Study of health problems and solutions affecting
all people of the world.
27.Health education (WHO 1998) - ANSWER "Consciously constructed
opportunities for learning... designed to improve health literacy and life
skills."
28.Health promotion (Ottawa Charter 1986) - ANSWER Process of enabling
people to increase control over and improve their health.
29.Primary health care (WHO 1978) - ANSWER Essential health care
accessible at a cost a community can afford, using practical, scientifically
sound, socially acceptable methods.
30.Community participation, equity, affordable cost, intersectoral collaboration,
appropriate technology. - ANSWER Essential components of primary
health care
31.Preventive medicine - ANSWER Health promotion, disease prevention,
disability limitation, rehabilitation.
32.Social medicine - ANSWER Studies how social and economic factors affect
health and illness.
33.Community medicine - ANSWER Deals with populations and provides
health care at the community level.
Exam Study Questions & Elaborate
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1. WHO definition of health - ANSWER "As a state of complete physical,
mental and social well‑being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity."
2. Sharma & Rosas definition of health - ANSWER "A means to achieve
desirable goals in life while maintaining a multidimensional equilibrium..."
3. Community - ANSWER A group of individuals who share common
interests and characteristics.
4. Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
Public Health: Biostatistics, Epidemiology, etc. - ANSWER Basic sciences
(Medicine vs Public Health)
5. Medicine: Helping one patient
Public Health: Benefiting many people - ANSWER Priority (Medicine vs
Public Health)
6. Medicine: High
Public Health: Low per capita - ANSWER Cost (Medicine vs Public Health)
,7. Medicine: Sophisticated
Public Health: Local and simple - ANSWER Technology (Medicine vs Public
Health)
8. Surveillance - ANSWER What is the problem?
9. Risk factor identification - ANSWER What is the cause?
10.Intervention evaluation - ANSWER What works?
11.Implementation - ANSWER How do you do it?
12.Evaluation - ANSWER Did it work?
13.Assessment - ANSWER Collecting, analyzing, and monitoring health data
(trends, hazards, vital statistics).
14.Policy development - ANSWER Using data to create policies, plans, and
health promotion programs.
15.Assurance - ANSWER Ensuring services, enforcing laws, evaluating
outcomes, ensuring workforce competence.
16.Visible cases - ANSWER Clinical and diagnosed illness.
17.Hidden cases - ANSWER Asymptomatic, pre‑symptomatic, latent,
deliberately ignored.
,18.Invisible cases - ANSWER Asymptomatic infection ("carriers").
19.Select the qualitative method that collects data through a simultaneous
conversation with a group of people.
1.key informant interviews
2.discourse analysis
3.surveys
4.focus groups - ANSWER 4.focus groups
20.Promotion, protection, and maintenance - ANSWER Three fundamental
functions of a community
21.Green & Ottoson definition of community health - ANSWER Health status
of the community plus organized responsibilities of public health, school
health, transportation, safety, and voluntary/private actions.
22.Institute of Medicine definition of public health - ANSWER Organized
community efforts to prevent disease and promote health from small
communities to entire countries.
23.Mission, substance, organizational framework. - ANSWER Three essential
parts of public health definition
24.Population health - ANSWER Health status of people who may or may not
identify as a community, plus efforts directed toward them.
, 25.International health - ANSWER Examines health problems in multiple
(mainly developing) countries and finds population‑based solutions.
26.Global health - ANSWER Study of health problems and solutions affecting
all people of the world.
27.Health education (WHO 1998) - ANSWER "Consciously constructed
opportunities for learning... designed to improve health literacy and life
skills."
28.Health promotion (Ottawa Charter 1986) - ANSWER Process of enabling
people to increase control over and improve their health.
29.Primary health care (WHO 1978) - ANSWER Essential health care
accessible at a cost a community can afford, using practical, scientifically
sound, socially acceptable methods.
30.Community participation, equity, affordable cost, intersectoral collaboration,
appropriate technology. - ANSWER Essential components of primary
health care
31.Preventive medicine - ANSWER Health promotion, disease prevention,
disability limitation, rehabilitation.
32.Social medicine - ANSWER Studies how social and economic factors affect
health and illness.
33.Community medicine - ANSWER Deals with populations and provides
health care at the community level.
