The health of the nation is the responsibility of the public health system in the United States. correct answers True
The public health system is not a single system. correct answers True
What is Public Health correct answers the well-being of all of us as we live together in neighborhoods, c...
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The health of the nation is the responsibility of the public health system in the United States.
correct answers True
The public health system is not a single system. correct answers True
What is Public Health correct answers the well-being of all of us as we live together in
neighborhoods, communities, states, and countries. (the government has primary responsibility
for the social good of health)
Large scale goals of public health: correct answers To protect, promote, and restore health and to
reduce the premature death and discomfort caused by disease.
Curative Medical Care correct answers Medical care that helps cure an already ill or infected
person
Prevention efforts correct answers Health programs and behaviors that prevent illness from
occurring.
Block Grants correct answers Money granted by the national government to a state government
with few restrictions on its spending. This can be contrasted with a categorical grant, which has
strict and specific provisions on the way it is to be spent
Case correct answers A term used in health statistics to refer to each person who has a disease.
Public health is not a completely new concept in human society. correct answers True
Public health efforts in the United States gained strength as the nation grew towards
independence in: correct answers the 1700's
Some of the first efforts of organized action to protect community health were: correct answers
The creation of boards of health
(usually created in response to a pandemic)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) traces its roots to 1887 correct answers True
National Institutes of Health (N IH) correct answers -Setting sanitary standards
-Protecting from infectious diseases
-Health departments began in Massachusetts
Three key functions of public health: correct answers 1) Assessment of the health of the
community
2) Policy development
3) Assurance of the public health
, assessment correct answers the process of determining the health needs of a community.
Policy Development correct answers The process of making a collective decision about what
needs to be done to protect the communities health
Assurance correct answers The process of making sure that correct actions are taken to protect
community health
Public health officials engage in three activities: correct answers epidemiology, surveillance, and
monitoring
Epidemiology correct answers The study of the nature, cause, control, and determinants of the
frequency of disease, disability, and death in human populations. (also the study of the history of
disease and its distribution throughout a society)
Surveillance correct answers The continuous search for a documentation of disease in public
health
Monitoring correct answers the regular review of disease data to determine changes in disease
levels
Key terms in Public Health Measurement: correct answers -Incidence
-Morbidity
-Mortality Rates
-Prevalence
-Relative risk
-RIsk
(IMMPRR)
Incidence correct answers Number of new cases of a disease or event such as motor vehicle
accident in a specific population.
Morbidity correct answers Number of cases of a specific disease in a specific period of time per
unit of population, usually expressed as a number per 1,000
Mortality Rates correct answers The number of people who have died from a given disease or
event. Collected and analyzed through death certificates.
Prevalence correct answers Total number of infected/affected people (cases) over a given period
of time
Relative Risk correct answers how an individual's risk may change relevant to a specific factor (a
person who smokes will have a higher chance of getting lung cancer compared to a person who
doesnt.)
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