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public health - CORRECT ANSWER-the practice of protecting and improving the health
of people in a community
APAE - CORRECT ANSWER-assessment, planning, action, and evaluation
12 great public health achievements - CORRECT ANSWER-acting on social
determinants of health, control of infectious disease, decline in dealths from heart
disease and strokes, family planning, healthier environments, motor vehicle safety,
recognition of tobacco as a health hazard, safer and heathier foods, safer workpleaces ,
universal polices, vaccination, healthy mothers and babies
public health vs healthcare - CORRECT ANSWER-individual patients vs community
population
sciences of public health - CORRECT ANSWER-biostastistics, epidemiology, health
policy and managment, health promotion, environmental health
Determinants of health - CORRECT ANSWER-Factors that raise or lower a level of
health in a population or individual. Determinants of health help to explain or predict
trends in health and why some groups have better or worse health than others.
risk - CORRECT ANSWER-Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the
likelihood of loss or reduced profit.
hazard - CORRECT ANSWER-A danger or risk.
exposure - CORRECT ANSWER-to come in contact
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Hippocratic Corpus - CORRECT ANSWER-a collection of around 60 early Ancient
Greek medical works strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his
teachings
separated religion and medicine
miasma - CORRECT ANSWER-a noxious or poisonous atmosphere
bubonic plague - CORRECT ANSWER-disease brought to Europe from the Mongols
during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats,
fleas.
John Snow - CORRECT ANSWER-father of modern epidemiology, he was critical of the
miasma theory. He investigated the cholera outbreaks
aqueducts - CORRECT ANSWER-these and sewers were ways to move fresh water
from a source to a population and then move human waste away
WASH - CORRECT ANSWER-imporving sanitation and hygiene facilities
smallpox and jenner - CORRECT ANSWER-smallpox is highly contagious, cause by
variola virus. It is transmitted through respiratory droplets. Jenner was first vaccine to
prevent
jenners experiments - CORRECT ANSWER-took puss from a cowpox pustule on the
hand of a milkmaid, it was injected into the arm of a boy and some soreness resulted.
he then gave the kid some smallpox and he was fine
variolate - CORRECT ANSWER-another form of vaccination
when was public health first recognized in Canada - CORRECT ANSWER-1947 it was
recognized by the Royal College of physicians and surgeons of canada
The ottawa charter for health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER-health promotion,
peace and shelter and education are needed for health
Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER-The number or proportion of cases of a particular
disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
disease cluster - CORRECT ANSWER-disease present at an excess rate with a p-value
of less than 0.025
p-value - CORRECT ANSWER-The probability level which forms basis for deciding if
results are statistically significant (not due to chance).
log data - CORRECT ANSWER-Records of events or actions captured by various
systems.
BRAINSCAPE1
SPH 200 Final Exam with complete
solutions latest version
public health - CORRECT ANSWER-the practice of protecting and improving the health
of people in a community
APAE - CORRECT ANSWER-assessment, planning, action, and evaluation
12 great public health achievements - CORRECT ANSWER-acting on social
determinants of health, control of infectious disease, decline in dealths from heart
disease and strokes, family planning, healthier environments, motor vehicle safety,
recognition of tobacco as a health hazard, safer and heathier foods, safer workpleaces ,
universal polices, vaccination, healthy mothers and babies
public health vs healthcare - CORRECT ANSWER-individual patients vs community
population
sciences of public health - CORRECT ANSWER-biostastistics, epidemiology, health
policy and managment, health promotion, environmental health
Determinants of health - CORRECT ANSWER-Factors that raise or lower a level of
health in a population or individual. Determinants of health help to explain or predict
trends in health and why some groups have better or worse health than others.
risk - CORRECT ANSWER-Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the
likelihood of loss or reduced profit.
hazard - CORRECT ANSWER-A danger or risk.
exposure - CORRECT ANSWER-to come in contact
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Hippocratic Corpus - CORRECT ANSWER-a collection of around 60 early Ancient
Greek medical works strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his
teachings
separated religion and medicine
miasma - CORRECT ANSWER-a noxious or poisonous atmosphere
bubonic plague - CORRECT ANSWER-disease brought to Europe from the Mongols
during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats,
fleas.
John Snow - CORRECT ANSWER-father of modern epidemiology, he was critical of the
miasma theory. He investigated the cholera outbreaks
aqueducts - CORRECT ANSWER-these and sewers were ways to move fresh water
from a source to a population and then move human waste away
WASH - CORRECT ANSWER-imporving sanitation and hygiene facilities
smallpox and jenner - CORRECT ANSWER-smallpox is highly contagious, cause by
variola virus. It is transmitted through respiratory droplets. Jenner was first vaccine to
prevent
jenners experiments - CORRECT ANSWER-took puss from a cowpox pustule on the
hand of a milkmaid, it was injected into the arm of a boy and some soreness resulted.
he then gave the kid some smallpox and he was fine
variolate - CORRECT ANSWER-another form of vaccination
when was public health first recognized in Canada - CORRECT ANSWER-1947 it was
recognized by the Royal College of physicians and surgeons of canada
The ottawa charter for health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER-health promotion,
peace and shelter and education are needed for health
Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER-The number or proportion of cases of a particular
disease or condition present in a population at a given time.
disease cluster - CORRECT ANSWER-disease present at an excess rate with a p-value
of less than 0.025
p-value - CORRECT ANSWER-The probability level which forms basis for deciding if
results are statistically significant (not due to chance).
log data - CORRECT ANSWER-Records of events or actions captured by various
systems.
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