FNDH 600 Midterm | 100% Correct |
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Mostly due to public health efforts, life expectancy increased from 1900 until the end of the 20th
Century by about __________ years. - ✔✔30
The Determinants of Health consist mainly of genetics (family history) and personal choices, which
suggests that public health efforts should focus mainly each individual's personal choices. - ✔✔False
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has
14,000 employees working in 40 countries, and a budget of more than $10 billion, including about $1
billion for health promotion programs. Their mission is "to promote health and quality of life by
preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability." - ✔✔Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
3 core functions of public health - ✔✔assessment, policy development, & assurance
In the USA 1900, one of the top three causes of death was: - ✔✔tuberculosis
The level of prevention that involves early detection of the potential for development of a disease or
condition is called: - ✔✔Secondary Prevention
The history of public health might well be written as a record of successive re-definings of the: -
✔✔unacceptable
What will a public health professional likely do? - ✔✔assess and monitor the health of populations,
formulate public health policies, connect people to needed health services, and promote health and
quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
If recent trends continue with US birth demographics and poverty among children... - ✔✔The proportion
of people living in poverty will likely increase
, Which of the following public health organizations was instrumental in helping thousands of farmers to
reclaim fertile river land for growing crops and simultaneously to prevent river blindness - ✔✔World
Health Organization
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 it can 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
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 that they needed
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 are both effective and cost-effective. - ✔✔False
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Mostly due to public health efforts, life expectancy increased from 1900 until the end of the 20th
Century by about __________ years. - ✔✔30
The Determinants of Health consist mainly of genetics (family history) and personal choices, which
suggests that public health efforts should focus mainly each individual's personal choices. - ✔✔False
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has
14,000 employees working in 40 countries, and a budget of more than $10 billion, including about $1
billion for health promotion programs. Their mission is "to promote health and quality of life by
preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability." - ✔✔Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
3 core functions of public health - ✔✔assessment, policy development, & assurance
In the USA 1900, one of the top three causes of death was: - ✔✔tuberculosis
The level of prevention that involves early detection of the potential for development of a disease or
condition is called: - ✔✔Secondary Prevention
The history of public health might well be written as a record of successive re-definings of the: -
✔✔unacceptable
What will a public health professional likely do? - ✔✔assess and monitor the health of populations,
formulate public health policies, connect people to needed health services, and promote health and
quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
If recent trends continue with US birth demographics and poverty among children... - ✔✔The proportion
of people living in poverty will likely increase
, Which of the following public health organizations was instrumental in helping thousands of farmers to
reclaim fertile river land for growing crops and simultaneously to prevent river blindness - ✔✔World
Health Organization
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 it can 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
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 that they needed
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 are both effective and cost-effective. - ✔✔False
