SPH200 UNIT 2 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the science of preventing disease, promoting health, and
prolonging life through organized societal efforts, organizations, public and private communities
Four key steps of a public health initiative - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Assessment and monitoring,
planning and solution development, action, evaluation
What is a shared goal of the public health and health care systems? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅maximizing
health of population
Primary goal of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅promotion of health, prevention of disease and
disability
Primary goal of health care system - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅treatment of individuals and disease
What factor is critical for public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅knowledge translation
What area of the big 12 of public health successes must be continually improved on in Canada? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nutrition and health -- limited/expensive access to healthy food in Northern
communities
What parts of the population do universal health policies protect? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅disadvantaged and low-income populations
What health intervention has saved more lives than any other in Canada within the last 50 years? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅vaccination
Medicine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a discipline concerned with individual patients and their outcomes
Focus of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅communities and population health outcomes in terms
of large scale metrics -- preventing illness and promoting wellbeing
Public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the science of preventing disease, promoting health, and
prolonging life through organized societal efforts, organizations, public and private communities
Four key steps of a public health initiative - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Assessment and monitoring,
planning and solution development, action, evaluation
What is a shared goal of the public health and health care systems? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅maximizing
health of population
Primary goal of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅promotion of health, prevention of disease and
disability
Primary goal of health care system - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅treatment of individuals and disease
What factor is critical for public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅knowledge translation
What area of the big 12 of public health successes must be continually improved on in Canada? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nutrition and health -- limited/expensive access to healthy food in Northern
communities
What parts of the population do universal health policies protect? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅disadvantaged and low-income populations
What health intervention has saved more lives than any other in Canada within the last 50 years? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅vaccination
Medicine - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a discipline concerned with individual patients and their outcomes
Focus of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅communities and population health outcomes in terms
of large scale metrics -- preventing illness and promoting wellbeing
