SPHHS EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
public health
the science of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through the
promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease, and injury prevention and detection and
control of infectious diseases
equity
promotes policies systems and overall community conditions that enable optimal health for all-
everyone should have a far opportunity
primary level of prevention strategies
avoid development of a disease and remove risk factor. it can add protective factor
secondary level of prevention strategies
Early detection treatment & Prevent Progression (identify disease at the earliest stage possible
for treatment)
tertiary level of prevention strategies
Reduce complications of established disease (focus on quality of life while experiencing the
disease)
1. what is primary focused on an individual patient?
1. medical care
1. what is focused on more than one person?
1. public health
2. what is primary focused on treating genetic and biochemical factors that cause disease
and repair damage that has been done?
2. medical care
, 2. what focuses on preventing the development of disease and prevent the progression to
more advanced stages of disease
2. public health
3. what are core factors that contribute to her;th and well;being in medical care that are
primarily individual factors like genetics, hormones and individual behaviors?
3. medical care
3. what core factors contribute to the context surrounding people in addition to individual
factors?
3. public health
4. what is your treatment of disease of an individual?
4. medicine
4. what is the prevention of disease at a population level
4. public health
Epidemiology
study of trends and patterns and causes to disease
bio stats
development and application of statistical models
health policy and management
consider the role of medical care
true/false: at first public health was based off beliefs and not research and testing, now the
approach public health is about changing what is happening at the source
true
prevent
CORRECT ANSWERS
public health
the science of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through the
promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease, and injury prevention and detection and
control of infectious diseases
equity
promotes policies systems and overall community conditions that enable optimal health for all-
everyone should have a far opportunity
primary level of prevention strategies
avoid development of a disease and remove risk factor. it can add protective factor
secondary level of prevention strategies
Early detection treatment & Prevent Progression (identify disease at the earliest stage possible
for treatment)
tertiary level of prevention strategies
Reduce complications of established disease (focus on quality of life while experiencing the
disease)
1. what is primary focused on an individual patient?
1. medical care
1. what is focused on more than one person?
1. public health
2. what is primary focused on treating genetic and biochemical factors that cause disease
and repair damage that has been done?
2. medical care
, 2. what focuses on preventing the development of disease and prevent the progression to
more advanced stages of disease
2. public health
3. what are core factors that contribute to her;th and well;being in medical care that are
primarily individual factors like genetics, hormones and individual behaviors?
3. medical care
3. what core factors contribute to the context surrounding people in addition to individual
factors?
3. public health
4. what is your treatment of disease of an individual?
4. medicine
4. what is the prevention of disease at a population level
4. public health
Epidemiology
study of trends and patterns and causes to disease
bio stats
development and application of statistical models
health policy and management
consider the role of medical care
true/false: at first public health was based off beliefs and not research and testing, now the
approach public health is about changing what is happening at the source
true
prevent
