answered to pass graded A+
3 organizations with definitions for public health - correct answer ✔✔IOM, CDC, WHO
Top 3 public health successes - correct answer ✔✔vaccines, infectious disease (prevention and control),
tobacco control
The IOM defines public health as the _____________ taken to keep people healthy - correct answer
✔✔collective actions
society's collective actions to keep people healthy - correct answer ✔✔IOM's definition of public health
· science of protecting and improving the health of those in a community
· promote healthy lifestyles, research diseases and injury prevention, detecting, preventing, and
responding to infectious diseases - correct answer ✔✔CDC definition of public health
THE CDC defines public health as:
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· promote healthy lifestyles, research diseases and injury prevention, detecting, preventing, and
responding to infectious diseases - correct answer ✔✔science of protecting and improving the health of
those in a community
· aims to provide the maximum benefits [not finished]
· quality health should be a fundamental right to everyone regardless of race, religion, political belief,
economic or social conditions - correct answer ✔✔WHO definition of public health
The theory involved in population vs individual - correct answer ✔✔Utilitarianism
, The principle involved in population vs individual for public health - correct answer ✔✔Autonomy
WHO definition:
aims to provide the ______________[not finished]
· quality health should be a fundamental right to everyone regardless of race, religion, political belief,
economic or social conditions - correct answer ✔✔maximum benefits
WHO definition:
aims to provide the maximum benefits [not finished]
· quality health should be a ________________________ to everyone regardless of race, religion,
political belief, economic or social conditions - correct answer ✔✔fundamental right
CDC Definition:
science of protecting and improving the health of those in a community
· ___________________ healthy lifestyles, _____________________ diseases and injury prevention,
detecting, preventing, and responding to ________________________ - correct answer ✔✔promote,
research, infectious diseases
in population vs individual for public health, it is import to note that the US strongly values
______________________ - correct answer ✔✔individual liberties
Unfortunately, protecting individual liberties is ____________________ - correct answer ✔✔difficult
PH has the power to - correct answer ✔✔guide choices, inform public, restrict individual choice
ex: forcing Smoking to be indoors, fluoridating water, quarantine and isolation - correct answer
✔✔restrict individual choice
ex: Taxing unhealthy foods, tax-break for healthy options - correct answer ✔✔guide choices
ex: Food labels, campaigns, disease prevalence or contact - correct answer ✔✔inform public