SPH 200 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a
community
APAE - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅assessment, planning, action, and evaluation
12 great public health achievements - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅individual patients vs community population
sciences of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅biostastistics, epidemiology, health policy and
managment, health promotion, environmental health
Determinants of health - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the likelihood of
loss or reduced profit.
hazard - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A danger or risk.
exposure - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅to come in contact
Hippocratic Corpus - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works
strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings
separated religion and medicine
, miasma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a noxious or poisonous atmosphere
bubonic plague - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅father of modern epidemiology, he was critical of the miasma
theory. He investigated the cholera outbreaks
aqueducts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅these and sewers were ways to move fresh water from a source to a
population and then move human waste away
WASH - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅imporving sanitation and hygiene facilities
smallpox and jenner - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅smallpox is highly contagious, cause by variola virus. It is
transmitted through respiratory droplets. Jenner was first vaccine to prevent
jenners experiments - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅another form of vaccination
when was public health first recognized in Canada - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1947 it was recognized by
the Royal College of physicians and surgeons of canada
The ottawa charter for health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅health promotion, peace and shelter
and education are needed for health
Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or
condition present in a population at a given time.
public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a
community
APAE - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅assessment, planning, action, and evaluation
12 great public health achievements - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅individual patients vs community population
sciences of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅biostastistics, epidemiology, health policy and
managment, health promotion, environmental health
Determinants of health - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the likelihood of
loss or reduced profit.
hazard - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A danger or risk.
exposure - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅to come in contact
Hippocratic Corpus - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works
strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings
separated religion and medicine
, miasma - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a noxious or poisonous atmosphere
bubonic plague - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅father of modern epidemiology, he was critical of the miasma
theory. He investigated the cholera outbreaks
aqueducts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅these and sewers were ways to move fresh water from a source to a
population and then move human waste away
WASH - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅imporving sanitation and hygiene facilities
smallpox and jenner - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅smallpox is highly contagious, cause by variola virus. It is
transmitted through respiratory droplets. Jenner was first vaccine to prevent
jenners experiments - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅another form of vaccination
when was public health first recognized in Canada - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1947 it was recognized by
the Royal College of physicians and surgeons of canada
The ottawa charter for health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅health promotion, peace and shelter
and education are needed for health
Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or
condition present in a population at a given time.
