SPH 200 Final Exam Questions and Answers
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public health
the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community
APAE
assessment, planning, action, and evaluation
12 great public health achievements
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
individual patients vs community population
sciences of public health
biostastistics, epidemiology, health policy and managment, health promotion, environmental
health
Determinants of health
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
Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the likelihood of loss or reduced profit.
hazard
A danger or risk.
exposure
to come in contact
Hippocratic Corpus
a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works strongly associated with the
physician Hippocrates and his teachings
separated religion and medicine
miasma
a noxious or poisonous atmosphere
bubonic plague
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
father of modern epidemiology, he was critical of the miasma theory. He investigated the cholera
outbreaks
Verified 100% Correct
public health
the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community
APAE
assessment, planning, action, and evaluation
12 great public health achievements
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
individual patients vs community population
sciences of public health
biostastistics, epidemiology, health policy and managment, health promotion, environmental
health
Determinants of health
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
Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset; in business, the likelihood of loss or reduced profit.
hazard
A danger or risk.
exposure
to come in contact
Hippocratic Corpus
a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works strongly associated with the
physician Hippocrates and his teachings
separated religion and medicine
miasma
a noxious or poisonous atmosphere
bubonic plague
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
father of modern epidemiology, he was critical of the miasma theory. He investigated the cholera
outbreaks
