Public Health 3300 Exam 1 Questions with Correct
Answers
What is Public Health Correct Answer ✓✓ PREVENT disease,
PROLONG life, PROMOTE physical Health.
Connects us all
Trans-disciplinary
A dynamic System
Father of Public Health Correct Answer ✓✓ Dr. Charles Edward
Winslow
What does public health do Correct Answer ✓✓ Prevents epidemics and
the spread of disease
Protects against environmental hazards
Prevents injuries
Promotes and encourages healthy behaviors
Responds to disasters and assists communities in recovery
,Assures the quality and accessibility of health services
Protects the Environment, Workplace, Housing, Food & Water
Mobilizes Communities for Action
Responds to Disasters
Public Health core Disciplines Correct Answer ✓✓ Epidemiology
Statistics
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Environmental & Occupational Health
Health policy
Healthcare Administration
Epidemiology Correct Answer ✓✓ study of the distribution of
determinates and antecedents of health and disease in the human
population; what disease effect the community, what's causing them and
who's effected Goal is to identify the underlying causes of disease
The basic science of public health.
The study of epidemics.
Aims to CONTROL spread of infectious diseases.
,Seeks causes of chronic disease & ways to limit harmful exposures.
Statistics Correct Answer ✓✓ different theories and procedures that are
used to analyze data to extract information. It is the mechanism we use
to interpret the numbers that we get from the surveys and data collection
Collection of data on the population.
These numbers are diagnostic tools for the health of the community.
The science of statistics is used to calculate risks, benefits.
Social and Behavioral Sciences Correct Answer ✓✓ uses scientific
principles to discover, describe, and explain the behaviors and
interactions among individuals, groups, institutions, events and ideas.
Understanding the population you are working with is inherent to the
success of your intervention
Behavior is now the leading factor in affecting people's health
Theories of health behavior: social environment affects people's
behavior
Major health threats: tobacco, poor diet, physical inactivity, & injuries.
, Maternal & child health - a social issue
Environmental and Occupational Health Correct Answer ✓✓
Environmental is concerned with the physical, chemical, and biological
conditions of the environment and their effect on organisms
Air, water, food
Occupational Health is the promotion and maintenance of the highest
degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all
occupations by preventing departures from health, controlling risks and
the adaptation of work to people, and people to their jobs. (ILO / WHO
1950)
Health effects of environmental exposures
Air Quality
Water Quality
Solid & hazardous wastes
Safe food and drugs
Global environmental change
Health Policy Correct Answer ✓✓ field of study and practice in which
we determine the priorities and values underlying health resource
allocation
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