PBH 400 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

PBH 400 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is health policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Refers to decisions, plans, actions that are taken in order
to achieve health care goals



Levels of Public Health Policy (fields) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Epidemiology, statistics, environmental,
social, biomedical science, health policy



(Key terms related to health policy): Incidence rates - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅new cases of disease



Prevalance rates - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅total cases



health disparities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅differences in health that impact individual



uninsured vs. underinsured - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅No insurance vs. not a fitting plan



access to care - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅environment, education, transportation all play roles



Legislative branch - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Makes laws



Executive branch - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Signs laws



Judicial branch - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enforces laws and makes sure they are constitutional



Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A guiding principle used to set a direction and influence decisions, short
term



Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A system of rules that a governing body regulates and enforces with
penalties, long term