SPHHS 2025 EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
Core Functions of Public Health
Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance
What is the purpose of these services?
-Provide equal and equitable opportunities for all people, regardless of race, sexuality, gender,
etc to achieve optimal health
-creates a framework for public health
-promotes policies that dismantle barriers such as poverty, racism, sexism, ableism, etc
10 essential public health services
1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
10 Essential Public health services (assessment)
1.Monitor health status of a population to identify and solve community environmental health
problems
2. Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and hazards within a community
10 Essential Public Health Services (Policy Development)
, 3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
10 essential public health services assurance
6. enforce laws and regulations (local & fed)
7. link people to needed personal health services and care
8. assure a competent workforce
9. evaluate (guidelines, evidence-based medicine)
10 research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health problems
Epidemiology
A branch of science interested in the distribution and determinants of health states or health
related events in a community. Applies this study to the control of public health problems
Distribution
The pattern and frequency of health events in a population. Does not just imply number sick. But
also rate of disease or risk in a population
Rate
Rate= # of events/population size
To assess, monitor and encourage the demand for needed prevention services in the
community are the goals for what kind of population health management?
Five Disciplines of Public Health
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Social and behavioral health, and health
policy
Medicine vs. Public Health
Medicine: Healing, for the individual
Public Health: Prevention, for the whole community
The Period of health protection
CORRECT ANSWERS
Core Functions of Public Health
Assessment, Policy Development, Assurance
What is the purpose of these services?
-Provide equal and equitable opportunities for all people, regardless of race, sexuality, gender,
etc to achieve optimal health
-creates a framework for public health
-promotes policies that dismantle barriers such as poverty, racism, sexism, ableism, etc
10 essential public health services
1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
10 Essential Public health services (assessment)
1.Monitor health status of a population to identify and solve community environmental health
problems
2. Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and hazards within a community
10 Essential Public Health Services (Policy Development)
, 3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
10 essential public health services assurance
6. enforce laws and regulations (local & fed)
7. link people to needed personal health services and care
8. assure a competent workforce
9. evaluate (guidelines, evidence-based medicine)
10 research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health problems
Epidemiology
A branch of science interested in the distribution and determinants of health states or health
related events in a community. Applies this study to the control of public health problems
Distribution
The pattern and frequency of health events in a population. Does not just imply number sick. But
also rate of disease or risk in a population
Rate
Rate= # of events/population size
To assess, monitor and encourage the demand for needed prevention services in the
community are the goals for what kind of population health management?
Five Disciplines of Public Health
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Social and behavioral health, and health
policy
Medicine vs. Public Health
Medicine: Healing, for the individual
Public Health: Prevention, for the whole community
The Period of health protection
