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Public Health 3300 Midterm Questions with CorrectAnswers
How do we prevent disease, prolong life, and promote physical health
Correct Answer ✓✓ 1.) Through organized community efforts and
sanitation in the community
2.) Education
3.) Organization of medical and nursing service for early diagnosis and
treatment
4.) Development of social machinery which will ensure everyone in the
community an adequate standard of living.
Father of public health Correct Answer ✓✓ Dr. Charles Edward
Winslow
Public Health Core Discliplines Correct Answer ✓✓ Epidemiology
Statistics
Social and behavioral sciences
Environmental health and occupational health
Health administration
Health policy
Epidemiology Correct Answer ✓✓ The study of the distribution of
health and disease in the human population
,Goal of epidemiology Correct Answer ✓✓ What disease effects the
community
What is causing them and who is effected
Goal is to identify the cause
Statistics Correct Answer ✓✓ Different theories to analyze data to
extract information
Social and behavioral sciences Correct Answer ✓✓ Using scientific
principle to explain social behaviors
Goal is to understand the population you are working in order to
inherent success with your intervention
Environmental health Correct Answer ✓✓ Concerned with the physical,
chemical, and biological conditions of the environment
Occupational health Correct Answer ✓✓ Promotion of maintenance in
all occupations in order by controlling health risks to all o
Health policy Correct Answer ✓✓ Field of study and practice in which
we determine the priorities and values underlying health resource
allocation
, Health care administration Correct Answer ✓✓ Combines politics,
business, and science by creating policies and managing human
resources
What is the basic science of public health Correct Answer ✓✓
Epidemiology
Biomedical sciences Correct Answer ✓✓ Infectious disease including
pathogens
Chronic diseases
Genetics
What is the leading cause of affecting people's health Correct Answer
✓✓ Behavior
What are some aspects behind environmental science Correct Answer
✓✓ Water quality
Air quality
Solid and hazardous wastes
Safe food and drugs
Global environmental change
What does health policy and management do? Correct Answer ✓✓
Plays a huge role in public health
Medical costs in the United States are extremely high
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