SPH-K150 IU Exam 1 Questions And
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Public health - Answer✔a multidisciplinary field that promotes the welfare of the individual and
the community
Values - Answer✔community, science and evidence-based decision making, health equity,
prevention and wellness, real progress in improving health
Importance of public health: - Answer✔Public Health Saves Money and Improves Quality of
Life, Improving Public Health Helps Children Thrive, Public Health Prevention Reduces Human
Suffering
Public Health Terms: Assessment - Answer✔One of three core functions of public health. It
involves the regular and systematic collection, assembly, analysis, and reporting of information
important to public health
Public Health Terms:Assurance - Answer✔One of three core functions of public health. evaluate
effectiveness, accessibility and quality of health services, ensure a skilled and competent health
workforce, enforce laws and regulations to protect health and safety
Public Health Terms:Determinants of Health (or Health Status Indicators) - Answer✔Combined
factors, both personal and environmental, that affect the health of individuals and
communities. Examples of these determinants include:ii
• Social and economic environment: (social status, education)
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• Physical environment: (Water purity, Clean air, Safe workplace, Safe housing)
• Individuals' characteristics and behaviors: (eating habits)
Public Health Terms:Health Disparities - Answer✔Health differences that are closely linked with
social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantages.
Public Health Terms:Essential Services: - Answer✔: Built on the three core functions of public
health, these services elaborate on what public health professionals do. Essential services are:
Monitor health
diagnose and investigate
inform
educate
empower
mobilize community partnerships
develop policies
enforce laws
link to/provide care
assure competent workforce
evaluate
Public Health Terms:Health Status Indicators - Answer✔Measures of important health
determinants that allow researchers to assess how healthy populations are. (ie. leading cause
of death)
Public Health Terms:Morbidity - Answer✔This refers to a diseased condition or state within a
person or population
Public Health Terms:Mortality - Answer✔mortality is typically viewed at population levels in
rates per a certain number, depending on the size of the overall population being viewed.
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