FNDH 600 Public Health Exam 1 | 100%
Correct | Verified | 2024 Version
Life Expectancy in the USA has increased since 1900 by about 25 years due to advances in drug and
medical care - ✔✔False
The CDC and WHO work to improve population health entirely by making sure that each person in the
population takes personal responsibility for their own health - ✔✔False
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has
more than 21,000 employees working in 50 countries, and a total budget of about $15.4 billion. They
work 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the US. -
✔✔Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The 3 major functions or core functions of public health incluse - ✔✔
Assurance
policy development
Assessment
The level of prevention that involves preventing complications of diseases is called - ✔✔Tertiary
Prevention
According to Dr. Greg Martin, public health is the discipline that addresses health at ___ level - ✔✔a
population
Which of these is something a public health professional is LEAST LIKELY TO DO in their profession? -
✔✔Refuse to help people who fail to get vaccinated
If recent trends continue with US demographics - ✔✔The share of white population is expected to
decline to less than half of all Americans after 2045
,From the very beginning in 1948, WHO's top priorities inclided - ✔✔-Nutrition
-Malaria and environmental sanitation
-Women's health and venereal disease
-Children's Health
According to Warin (2018), "...these dominant discourses about an individual 's ignorance and the
marked differences in food provision, types of health education and information, suggested that people's
knowledge about healthy eating was less sophisticated in one locale, and they need to be educated with
basic information and cooking lessons to help them change their 'ill-informed' eating behaviours."
In this statement, the author is mainly highlighting perceived differences between: - ✔✔Higher and
lower socio-economic areas
According to Warin (2018), there is very strong evidence that interventions that try to change people's
behaviors in isolation have limited efficacy and cost-effectiveness - ✔✔True
Warin (2018) clearly saw obesity as a problem of an individual lacking education and knowledge -
✔✔False
Warin (2018) ethnographic fieldwork included all of the following except: - ✔✔Having participants keep
a food log
During the 20th century, population-wide vaccinations resulted in the eradication of - ✔✔Polio and
smallpox
Epidemiology - ✔✔The study of the distribution and determinants of disease or health status in a
population
Health education - ✔✔Programs designed with a community to help it know about health risks and how
to reduce these risks
health promotion - ✔✔The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its
determinants, and thereby improve their health
, Prevention - ✔✔Actions that reduce exposure or other risks, keep people from getting sick, or keep
disease from getting worse
Public Health Surveillance - ✔✔The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health
data
Environmental Health - ✔✔The protection from hazards in the environment
The World bank has set "poverty threshold" as $1.90/day (at purchasing-power parity) in the developing
world. - ✔✔True
As the world's leading health problem, poverty is associated with - ✔✔-Inferior Health Care
-Lower life expectancy among adults
-Unsafe water and sanitation
-High infant mortality and childhood deaths
Poverty causes hunger but hunger is not considered to be a reciprocal cause of poverty - ✔✔False
According to the course slides/notes, which of these statements is not factually accurate? - ✔✔More
than 1 out of 4 people in the world defecate in the open
From 1820 to the 1990's, the percentage of the world's population living in extreme poverty dropped
from 854% to 24% - ✔✔True
Relative Poverty - ✔✔In the United States, this is the type of poverty we describe when we say that
about 1 in 6 children lives below the poverty line
Afghanistan is classified as a lower middle income country while neighboring Pakistan is an upper middle
income country - ✔✔False
Correct | Verified | 2024 Version
Life Expectancy in the USA has increased since 1900 by about 25 years due to advances in drug and
medical care - ✔✔False
The CDC and WHO work to improve population health entirely by making sure that each person in the
population takes personal responsibility for their own health - ✔✔False
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has
more than 21,000 employees working in 50 countries, and a total budget of about $15.4 billion. They
work 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the US. -
✔✔Center for Disease Control and Prevention
The 3 major functions or core functions of public health incluse - ✔✔
Assurance
policy development
Assessment
The level of prevention that involves preventing complications of diseases is called - ✔✔Tertiary
Prevention
According to Dr. Greg Martin, public health is the discipline that addresses health at ___ level - ✔✔a
population
Which of these is something a public health professional is LEAST LIKELY TO DO in their profession? -
✔✔Refuse to help people who fail to get vaccinated
If recent trends continue with US demographics - ✔✔The share of white population is expected to
decline to less than half of all Americans after 2045
,From the very beginning in 1948, WHO's top priorities inclided - ✔✔-Nutrition
-Malaria and environmental sanitation
-Women's health and venereal disease
-Children's Health
According to Warin (2018), "...these dominant discourses about an individual 's ignorance and the
marked differences in food provision, types of health education and information, suggested that people's
knowledge about healthy eating was less sophisticated in one locale, and they need to be educated with
basic information and cooking lessons to help them change their 'ill-informed' eating behaviours."
In this statement, the author is mainly highlighting perceived differences between: - ✔✔Higher and
lower socio-economic areas
According to Warin (2018), there is very strong evidence that interventions that try to change people's
behaviors in isolation have limited efficacy and cost-effectiveness - ✔✔True
Warin (2018) clearly saw obesity as a problem of an individual lacking education and knowledge -
✔✔False
Warin (2018) ethnographic fieldwork included all of the following except: - ✔✔Having participants keep
a food log
During the 20th century, population-wide vaccinations resulted in the eradication of - ✔✔Polio and
smallpox
Epidemiology - ✔✔The study of the distribution and determinants of disease or health status in a
population
Health education - ✔✔Programs designed with a community to help it know about health risks and how
to reduce these risks
health promotion - ✔✔The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its
determinants, and thereby improve their health
, Prevention - ✔✔Actions that reduce exposure or other risks, keep people from getting sick, or keep
disease from getting worse
Public Health Surveillance - ✔✔The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health
data
Environmental Health - ✔✔The protection from hazards in the environment
The World bank has set "poverty threshold" as $1.90/day (at purchasing-power parity) in the developing
world. - ✔✔True
As the world's leading health problem, poverty is associated with - ✔✔-Inferior Health Care
-Lower life expectancy among adults
-Unsafe water and sanitation
-High infant mortality and childhood deaths
Poverty causes hunger but hunger is not considered to be a reciprocal cause of poverty - ✔✔False
According to the course slides/notes, which of these statements is not factually accurate? - ✔✔More
than 1 out of 4 people in the world defecate in the open
From 1820 to the 1990's, the percentage of the world's population living in extreme poverty dropped
from 854% to 24% - ✔✔True
Relative Poverty - ✔✔In the United States, this is the type of poverty we describe when we say that
about 1 in 6 children lives below the poverty line
Afghanistan is classified as a lower middle income country while neighboring Pakistan is an upper middle
income country - ✔✔False
