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N309 questions with correct answers
What is the difference between public health and clinical care? Correct
Answer-Public health is the science and practice of protecting and
improving the health of the community,
population focus, greatest good for greatest #, emphasis on preventing
disease and promoting health of communities, interventions target
environment, promote healthy lifestyles
Monitor health of countries, Control communicable diseases, Educate
the public about health, Provide population interventions (Vitamin A &
immunizations), Maintain safety net for vulnerable populations
clinical: individual focus, needs of individual more important than needs
of group, emphasis on diagnosing and treating disease


*Define health (WHO, 1948), public health, global health Correct
Answer-health: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-
being and not merely the absence of infirmity.
public health: the science and practice of protecting and improving the
health of the community
global health: Health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend
national boundaries and best addressed by cooperative actions


*What are different ways that people view health? Correct Answer-
Clinical - The absence of disease, illness
Functional - Can perform social/work roles
Adaptive - Can adapt to environment and stressors
Eudaimonistic -Exuberant well-being., primarily in people who have
survived catastrophic injuries, ability to achieve highest potentials

,In what ways do public health and clinical care differ? Correct Answer-
#1


What are some of the things that public health does? Correct Answer-
Monitor health of countries, Control communicable diseases, Educate
the public about health, Provide population interventions (Vitamin A &
immunizations), Maintain safety net for vulnerable populations


What are reasons to study and focus on global health? Correct Answer-
understand the progress made and remaining global health probs
learn how to improve US health, US spends more, but has poorer health
Diseases cross borders (pandemic)
Some health challenges require a global approach (pollution, pandemic)
Health is the basis of economic & social development, and many
businesses are global-- in scope (health workers)
Many health problems require solutions involving international
cooperation or technical expertise (identifying new viral diseases)


*What is the epidemiologic triangle? Correct Answer-a tool that
scientists use for addressing the three components that contribute to the
spread of disease: an external agent, a susceptible host and an
environment that brings the agent and host together.
Host ( dependent of person disease resistance, if they get sick, still
host ), environment ( includes vectors ), agent ( bacteria, virus, causes
disease )

, What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? What types of
health problems are covered in the SDGs; do these differ from health
problems in the MDGs? Correct Answer-sustainable development goals,
17 total SDGs, 1 SDG focuses on health (#3), 9 sub categories, (there is
a reciprocal between other goals, they affect health too)
development, not health (health is a component)- overall focus
3.1 reduce the global maternal- mortality
3.2 end preventable deaths of children
3.3 end epidemics of AIDS,TB, malaria & others
3.4 reduce premature mortality from NCDs (non communicable diseases
70% of mortality globally, ex heart attack)
3.5 prevent & treat substance abuse
3.6 halve deaths & injuries from road traffic
3.7 access to reproductive health care
3.8 achieve universal health coverage
3.9 reduce death/illness from pollution
MDG- millennium development goals
health ones ( reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat
HIV/AIDS, malaria, & other diseases)


*How do the innate and adaptive immune systems differ and protect us?
Correct Answer-Innate: present from birth and is first line of defense,
nonspecific: doesn't differentiate between challenges, reacts in same way
for every organism, EX: anatomical barriers, physiological barriers
(stomach acid kills), phagocytic cells (destroy ingested orgs),
inflammatory process, natural killer cells)

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