PUBH 302 Exam 1
Public Health definition - correct answer-improving and protecting the quality of life and
health for a population through preventative measures
8 P's of public health - correct answer-prevention, protection, promotion, prolonging, product
safety, physical and social and economic environment, big picture, and populations
Determinants of health - correct answer-the range of personal, social, economic, and
environmental factors that influence health status
Requirements for survival - correct answer-air, water, food, shelter, care
Ancient Greeks' public health - correct answer-physical fitness (Olympics), personal hygiene,
Naturalistic Concept (disease caused by imbalance between man and environment)
Hippocrates - correct answer-Father of Western Medicine, established causal relationships
between disease, coined the term epidemic
Roman Empire public health - correct answer-adopted Greek health values, started sewage
systems and aqueducts, raised taxes to support markets, water supply, and public baths
Middle Ages public health - correct answer-believed in spiritual health over physical health,
decline of hygiene and sanitation, used faith and prayer as treatment, still used quarantine of
ships and isolation of infected individuals
Edward Jenner - correct answer-coined the term vaccine, developed a cowpox vaccine
William Harvey - correct answer-Discovered circulatory system, used dissection for his
theories, first to suggest that fertilization by an egg and sperm was how reproduction took
place for humans and other mammals
Industrialization and urbanization - correct answer-produced new public health problems:
poverty, slums, disease; in Manchester in 1840 over 50% of working class children died
before their 5th birthday
John Snow - correct answer-Father of epidemiology, mapped the occurrence of cholera in
London
Great Sanitary Awakening - correct answer-growth in scientific knowledge, humanitarian
ideals, connection between poverty & disease, water supply & sewage removal, monitor of
community health status
single best predictor of poor health - correct answer-poverty
, England Sanitary Reform - correct answer-1842 Chadwick Report "Survey into the Sanitary
Condition of the Laboring Classes in Great Britain"
U.S. Sanitary Reform - correct answer-1850 "Report of the Sanitary Commission of
Massachusetts", 1869 MA State Board of Health
Louis Pasteur - correct answer-1862 found germs caused diseases not bad air/miasma,
1888 first public health lab
Robert Koch - correct answer-discovered cholera vibrio and bacterium for tuberculosis
Life expectancy increase after Sanitation Revolution due to: - correct answer-clean
water/water treatment, food inspection, personal hygiene, pharmaceuticals,
soaps/disinfectants, public health departments and regulation, public works departments
(garbage collection, landfill, street cleaning)
Why is public health important - correct answer-mortality and morbidity prevented, longer life
expectancy, improved quality of life
Recommendations for measuring population health - correct answer-life expectancy from
birth, condition-specific changes in life expectancy, self-reported levels of health
Infant mortality rate - correct answer-the number of infant deaths before their first birthday for
every 1,000 live births
Ten great achievements in public health - correct answer-1. Vaccination.
2. Motor-vehicle safety.
3. Safer workplaces.
4. Control of infectious diseases.
5. Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke.
6. Safer and healthier foods.
7. Healthier mothers and babies.
8. Family planning.
9. Fluoridation of drinking water.
10. Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard.
Primary prevention - correct answer-action taken to avert occurrence of disease
Secondary prevention - correct answer-Action taken to identify diseases at their earliest
stages and to apply appropriate treatments to limit their consequences and severity
Tertiary prevention - correct answer-Specific interventions to assist diseased or disabled
persons in limiting the effects of their diseases or disabilities; also may include activities to
prevent recurrence of disease
Why is infant mortality used to measure the overall health of a population - correct
answer-indicates current health status of the population and predicts the health of the next
generation
Public Health definition - correct answer-improving and protecting the quality of life and
health for a population through preventative measures
8 P's of public health - correct answer-prevention, protection, promotion, prolonging, product
safety, physical and social and economic environment, big picture, and populations
Determinants of health - correct answer-the range of personal, social, economic, and
environmental factors that influence health status
Requirements for survival - correct answer-air, water, food, shelter, care
Ancient Greeks' public health - correct answer-physical fitness (Olympics), personal hygiene,
Naturalistic Concept (disease caused by imbalance between man and environment)
Hippocrates - correct answer-Father of Western Medicine, established causal relationships
between disease, coined the term epidemic
Roman Empire public health - correct answer-adopted Greek health values, started sewage
systems and aqueducts, raised taxes to support markets, water supply, and public baths
Middle Ages public health - correct answer-believed in spiritual health over physical health,
decline of hygiene and sanitation, used faith and prayer as treatment, still used quarantine of
ships and isolation of infected individuals
Edward Jenner - correct answer-coined the term vaccine, developed a cowpox vaccine
William Harvey - correct answer-Discovered circulatory system, used dissection for his
theories, first to suggest that fertilization by an egg and sperm was how reproduction took
place for humans and other mammals
Industrialization and urbanization - correct answer-produced new public health problems:
poverty, slums, disease; in Manchester in 1840 over 50% of working class children died
before their 5th birthday
John Snow - correct answer-Father of epidemiology, mapped the occurrence of cholera in
London
Great Sanitary Awakening - correct answer-growth in scientific knowledge, humanitarian
ideals, connection between poverty & disease, water supply & sewage removal, monitor of
community health status
single best predictor of poor health - correct answer-poverty
, England Sanitary Reform - correct answer-1842 Chadwick Report "Survey into the Sanitary
Condition of the Laboring Classes in Great Britain"
U.S. Sanitary Reform - correct answer-1850 "Report of the Sanitary Commission of
Massachusetts", 1869 MA State Board of Health
Louis Pasteur - correct answer-1862 found germs caused diseases not bad air/miasma,
1888 first public health lab
Robert Koch - correct answer-discovered cholera vibrio and bacterium for tuberculosis
Life expectancy increase after Sanitation Revolution due to: - correct answer-clean
water/water treatment, food inspection, personal hygiene, pharmaceuticals,
soaps/disinfectants, public health departments and regulation, public works departments
(garbage collection, landfill, street cleaning)
Why is public health important - correct answer-mortality and morbidity prevented, longer life
expectancy, improved quality of life
Recommendations for measuring population health - correct answer-life expectancy from
birth, condition-specific changes in life expectancy, self-reported levels of health
Infant mortality rate - correct answer-the number of infant deaths before their first birthday for
every 1,000 live births
Ten great achievements in public health - correct answer-1. Vaccination.
2. Motor-vehicle safety.
3. Safer workplaces.
4. Control of infectious diseases.
5. Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke.
6. Safer and healthier foods.
7. Healthier mothers and babies.
8. Family planning.
9. Fluoridation of drinking water.
10. Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard.
Primary prevention - correct answer-action taken to avert occurrence of disease
Secondary prevention - correct answer-Action taken to identify diseases at their earliest
stages and to apply appropriate treatments to limit their consequences and severity
Tertiary prevention - correct answer-Specific interventions to assist diseased or disabled
persons in limiting the effects of their diseases or disabilities; also may include activities to
prevent recurrence of disease
Why is infant mortality used to measure the overall health of a population - correct
answer-indicates current health status of the population and predicts the health of the next
generation
