FNDH 600 Exam 1 | 100% Correct | Verified |
2024 Version
Mostly due to public health efforts, life expectancy increased from 1900 until the end of the 20th
Century by about_____ years. - ✔✔30 years
The Determinants of Health are? - ✔✔Individual, Environment, Public health impact
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has
14,000 employees in 40 countries, and a 2014 budget of $11.3 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
The 3 major functions or core functions of public health include: - ✔✔Assurance, policy development, &
assessment
In the USA in 1900, one of the top three causes of death was: - ✔✔Tuberculosis (or consumption)
What are the 20th Century's ten greatest public health achievements that helped to improve longevity
and quality of life in our population? - ✔✔-Vaccination
-Motor-Vehicle Safety
-Safer Workplace
-Control of Infectious Diseases
-Decline in deaths from coronary heart Disease and Stroke
-Safer and Healthier Foods
-Healthier Mothers and Babies
-Family Planning
-Fluoridation of Drinking Water
-Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
, The level of prevention that involves early detection of the potential for development of a disease or
condition is called: - ✔✔Secondary Prevention
The level of prevention that involves reduction of risk factors before occurrence of disease, condition, or
injury - ✔✔Primary Prevention
The level of prevention that involves treatment of an existing symptomatic disease process to ameliorate
its effects - ✔✔Tertiary Prevention
"The history of public health might well be written as a record of successive re- defining of the____." -
✔✔Unacceptable
What are somethings that a public health professional is most likely to do in their profession? - ✔✔-
Assess and monitor the health of populations
-Formulate public health policies
-Connect people to needed health services
-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, what is likely to
happen? - ✔✔The proportion of people living in poverty will increase
t/f Public health may consist of programs to promote, maintain, and conserve the public's health by
providing health services to individuals and/or by conducting research, investigations, examinations,
training, and demonstrations. - ✔✔true
Which 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
The study of the distribution and determinants of disease or health status in a population -
✔✔Epidemiology
2024 Version
Mostly due to public health efforts, life expectancy increased from 1900 until the end of the 20th
Century by about_____ years. - ✔✔30 years
The Determinants of Health are? - ✔✔Individual, Environment, Public health impact
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has
14,000 employees in 40 countries, and a 2014 budget of $11.3 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
The 3 major functions or core functions of public health include: - ✔✔Assurance, policy development, &
assessment
In the USA in 1900, one of the top three causes of death was: - ✔✔Tuberculosis (or consumption)
What are the 20th Century's ten greatest public health achievements that helped to improve longevity
and quality of life in our population? - ✔✔-Vaccination
-Motor-Vehicle Safety
-Safer Workplace
-Control of Infectious Diseases
-Decline in deaths from coronary heart Disease and Stroke
-Safer and Healthier Foods
-Healthier Mothers and Babies
-Family Planning
-Fluoridation of Drinking Water
-Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
, The level of prevention that involves early detection of the potential for development of a disease or
condition is called: - ✔✔Secondary Prevention
The level of prevention that involves reduction of risk factors before occurrence of disease, condition, or
injury - ✔✔Primary Prevention
The level of prevention that involves treatment of an existing symptomatic disease process to ameliorate
its effects - ✔✔Tertiary Prevention
"The history of public health might well be written as a record of successive re- defining of the____." -
✔✔Unacceptable
What are somethings that a public health professional is most likely to do in their profession? - ✔✔-
Assess and monitor the health of populations
-Formulate public health policies
-Connect people to needed health services
-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, what is likely to
happen? - ✔✔The proportion of people living in poverty will increase
t/f Public health may consist of programs to promote, maintain, and conserve the public's health by
providing health services to individuals and/or by conducting research, investigations, examinations,
training, and demonstrations. - ✔✔true
Which 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
The study of the distribution and determinants of disease or health status in a population -
✔✔Epidemiology
