Final Exam- PHC 6588 questions n
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Please identify the three core functions of public health: - correct answer ✔✔assessment,
policy development, assurance
In the United States, what level of government bears responsibility for public health? - correct
answer ✔✔State
Health systems globally differ from those in the United States in which of the following ways? -
correct answer ✔✔Global health systems typically include responsibility for personal health
(clinical care) services
The recent revisions to the Ten Essential Public Health Services put which of the following at the
center of the model signifying its importance as a core driver of public health practice? - correct
answer ✔✔Equity
As discussed in Turnock, which of the following types of law refers to the rules and regulations
that govern many public health efforts in the United States? - correct answer ✔✔Administrative
law
For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: local level -
correct answer ✔✔Direct provision of services
For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: state level -
correct answer ✔✔Police power
, For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: federal level
- correct answer ✔✔Grants-in-aid
The term "federalism" refers to which of the following? - correct answer ✔✔A system by which
power is shared between national and state governments
In the United States, city and county health departments were initially created to respond what
public health threat? - correct answer ✔✔Infectious diseases
The foundational definition of health, still used today, was written by which organization,
following the end of the Second World War? - correct answer ✔✔The World Health
Organization
The welcome video for this course posted on the Canvas course site emphasized which
important competency? - correct answer ✔✔Professionalism and integrity
Who coined the term "vaccine" in his seminal work on smallpox? - correct answer ✔✔Edward
Jenner
Who halted a London epidemic by removing the handle on a public water pump thereby
eliminating the mode of disease transmission? - correct answer ✔✔John Snow
What disease was john snow trying to stop? - correct answer ✔✔cholera
Who, 20 years later, determined the actual disease causing agent in this epidemic? - correct
answer ✔✔Robert Koch
Who led the sanitary movement in the latter half of the 19th century in London? - correct
answer ✔✔Edwin Chadwick
answers graded A+ already passed
Please identify the three core functions of public health: - correct answer ✔✔assessment,
policy development, assurance
In the United States, what level of government bears responsibility for public health? - correct
answer ✔✔State
Health systems globally differ from those in the United States in which of the following ways? -
correct answer ✔✔Global health systems typically include responsibility for personal health
(clinical care) services
The recent revisions to the Ten Essential Public Health Services put which of the following at the
center of the model signifying its importance as a core driver of public health practice? - correct
answer ✔✔Equity
As discussed in Turnock, which of the following types of law refers to the rules and regulations
that govern many public health efforts in the United States? - correct answer ✔✔Administrative
law
For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: local level -
correct answer ✔✔Direct provision of services
For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: state level -
correct answer ✔✔Police power
, For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: federal level
- correct answer ✔✔Grants-in-aid
The term "federalism" refers to which of the following? - correct answer ✔✔A system by which
power is shared between national and state governments
In the United States, city and county health departments were initially created to respond what
public health threat? - correct answer ✔✔Infectious diseases
The foundational definition of health, still used today, was written by which organization,
following the end of the Second World War? - correct answer ✔✔The World Health
Organization
The welcome video for this course posted on the Canvas course site emphasized which
important competency? - correct answer ✔✔Professionalism and integrity
Who coined the term "vaccine" in his seminal work on smallpox? - correct answer ✔✔Edward
Jenner
Who halted a London epidemic by removing the handle on a public water pump thereby
eliminating the mode of disease transmission? - correct answer ✔✔John Snow
What disease was john snow trying to stop? - correct answer ✔✔cholera
Who, 20 years later, determined the actual disease causing agent in this epidemic? - correct
answer ✔✔Robert Koch
Who led the sanitary movement in the latter half of the 19th century in London? - correct
answer ✔✔Edwin Chadwick
