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How does the Institute of Medicine (IOM) define the mission of public health? -
correct answer ✔✔As "fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which
people can be healthy".
What are the 10 Essential Public Health Services (ES)? - correct answer ✔✔1.
Monitor health
2. Diagnose and investigate
3. Inform, educate, and empower
4. Mobilize community partnerships
5. Develop policies and plans
6. Enforce laws and regulations
7. Link people to needed personal health services
8. Assure a competent workforce
9. Evaluate
10. Research
What are three forces that may help shape the future of the environmental health
profession? - correct answer ✔✔1. Climate change and resulting ecosystem
changes and natural disasters
2. Population growth and the global rise in standard of living resulting in faster
deterioration of the natural environment
,3. Novel or pharmaceutical-resistant pathogens
What does AREC stand for? - correct answer ✔✔anticipation, recognition,
evaluation, control
Compliance and enforcement intervention strategies can be divided into what two
groups? - correct answer ✔✔1. Those designed to achieve immediate on-site
correction.
2. Those designed to achieve long-term compliance.
What is a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)? - correct answer ✔✔A standard
operation procedure (SOP) is a written process that provides consistent guidance
to employees within an organization as to how they should properly complete a
given task in a uniform manner. It provides detailed steps and details the tools
necessary to complete the task.
What is Malfeasance? - correct answer ✔✔The doing of an act that is wrongful
and that is known to be wholly unauthorized by the official.
What is Misfeasance? - correct answer ✔✔The doing of an authorized act in an
unauthorized manner.
What is Nonfeasance? - correct answer ✔✔The failure to perform an official duty
without sufficient excuse.
What are the two main types of epidemiological studies that can be used in an
epidemiological investigation? - correct answer ✔✔Descriptive and Analytical.
,Active Immunity - correct answer ✔✔Results when exposure to a disease
organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease.
Active immunity can be acquired through natural immunity or vaccine-induced
immunity
Passive Immunity - correct answer ✔✔When a person is given antibodies to a
disease rather than producing them through his or her own immune system.
Agent (biology/epi) - correct answer ✔✔A factor (e.g., a microorganism or
chemical substance) or form of energy whose presence, excessive presence, or in
the case of deficiency diseases, relative absence is essential for the occurrence of
a disease or other adverse health outcome.
Mode of Transmission - correct answer ✔✔The manner in which an agent is
transmitted from its reservoir to a susceptible host.
Carrier - correct answer ✔✔A person or animal that harbors the infectious agent
for a disease and can transmit it to others, but does not demonstrate signs of the
disease. A carrier can be asymptomatic (never indicate signs of the disease) or can
display signs of the disease only during the incubation period, convalescence, or
postconvalescence. The period of being a carrier can be short (a transient carrier)
or long (a chronic carrier).
Morbidity - correct answer ✔✔(disease) Any departure, subjective or objective,
from a state of physiological or psychological health and well-being.
, Mortality - correct answer ✔✔Death
Demographic Information - correct answer ✔✔Personal characteristics of a
person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation)
demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to characterize
patients or populations.
Pandemic - correct answer ✔✔An epidemic occurring over a widespread area
(multiple countries or continents) and usually affecting a substantial proportion of
the population.
Endemic - correct answer ✔✔The constant presence of an agent or health
condition within a given geographic area or population; can also refer to the usual
prevalence of an agent or condition.
Epidemic - correct answer ✔✔The occurrence of more cases of disease, injury, or
other health condition than expected in a given area or among a specific group of
persons during a particular period. Usually, the cases are presumed to have a
common cause or to be related to one another in some way.
Frequency - correct answer ✔✔The amount or number of occurrences of an
attribute or health outcome among a population.
Portal of Entry - correct answer ✔✔A pathway into the host that gives an agent
access to tissue that will allow it to multiply or act.
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How does the Institute of Medicine (IOM) define the mission of public health? -
correct answer ✔✔As "fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which
people can be healthy".
What are the 10 Essential Public Health Services (ES)? - correct answer ✔✔1.
Monitor health
2. Diagnose and investigate
3. Inform, educate, and empower
4. Mobilize community partnerships
5. Develop policies and plans
6. Enforce laws and regulations
7. Link people to needed personal health services
8. Assure a competent workforce
9. Evaluate
10. Research
What are three forces that may help shape the future of the environmental health
profession? - correct answer ✔✔1. Climate change and resulting ecosystem
changes and natural disasters
2. Population growth and the global rise in standard of living resulting in faster
deterioration of the natural environment
,3. Novel or pharmaceutical-resistant pathogens
What does AREC stand for? - correct answer ✔✔anticipation, recognition,
evaluation, control
Compliance and enforcement intervention strategies can be divided into what two
groups? - correct answer ✔✔1. Those designed to achieve immediate on-site
correction.
2. Those designed to achieve long-term compliance.
What is a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)? - correct answer ✔✔A standard
operation procedure (SOP) is a written process that provides consistent guidance
to employees within an organization as to how they should properly complete a
given task in a uniform manner. It provides detailed steps and details the tools
necessary to complete the task.
What is Malfeasance? - correct answer ✔✔The doing of an act that is wrongful
and that is known to be wholly unauthorized by the official.
What is Misfeasance? - correct answer ✔✔The doing of an authorized act in an
unauthorized manner.
What is Nonfeasance? - correct answer ✔✔The failure to perform an official duty
without sufficient excuse.
What are the two main types of epidemiological studies that can be used in an
epidemiological investigation? - correct answer ✔✔Descriptive and Analytical.
,Active Immunity - correct answer ✔✔Results when exposure to a disease
organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease.
Active immunity can be acquired through natural immunity or vaccine-induced
immunity
Passive Immunity - correct answer ✔✔When a person is given antibodies to a
disease rather than producing them through his or her own immune system.
Agent (biology/epi) - correct answer ✔✔A factor (e.g., a microorganism or
chemical substance) or form of energy whose presence, excessive presence, or in
the case of deficiency diseases, relative absence is essential for the occurrence of
a disease or other adverse health outcome.
Mode of Transmission - correct answer ✔✔The manner in which an agent is
transmitted from its reservoir to a susceptible host.
Carrier - correct answer ✔✔A person or animal that harbors the infectious agent
for a disease and can transmit it to others, but does not demonstrate signs of the
disease. A carrier can be asymptomatic (never indicate signs of the disease) or can
display signs of the disease only during the incubation period, convalescence, or
postconvalescence. The period of being a carrier can be short (a transient carrier)
or long (a chronic carrier).
Morbidity - correct answer ✔✔(disease) Any departure, subjective or objective,
from a state of physiological or psychological health and well-being.
, Mortality - correct answer ✔✔Death
Demographic Information - correct answer ✔✔Personal characteristics of a
person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation)
demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to characterize
patients or populations.
Pandemic - correct answer ✔✔An epidemic occurring over a widespread area
(multiple countries or continents) and usually affecting a substantial proportion of
the population.
Endemic - correct answer ✔✔The constant presence of an agent or health
condition within a given geographic area or population; can also refer to the usual
prevalence of an agent or condition.
Epidemic - correct answer ✔✔The occurrence of more cases of disease, injury, or
other health condition than expected in a given area or among a specific group of
persons during a particular period. Usually, the cases are presumed to have a
common cause or to be related to one another in some way.
Frequency - correct answer ✔✔The amount or number of occurrences of an
attribute or health outcome among a population.
Portal of Entry - correct answer ✔✔A pathway into the host that gives an agent
access to tissue that will allow it to multiply or act.
