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Public Health Exam 1 Questions || || || || ||




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What is Health? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔•World
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Health Organization (1946) definition: "health is a state
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of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and
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not merely the absence of disease and infirmity"
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Health Status - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔1.Medical care
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2.Genetics
3.Social circumstances (e.g., education, employment,
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income, poverty, housing, crime, and social cohesion)
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4.Environmental conditions (e.g., toxic agents, microbial || || || || || ||



agents, structural hazards) || ||




5.Behavioral choices (e.g., diet, physical activity, || || || || || ||



substance use and abuse) || || ||




Social determinants of health (SDOH) - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔conditions in the places where people || || || || || ||



live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of
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health and quality-of life-risks and outcomes
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,Wellness - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔an active process
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through which people become aware of, and make
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choices toward, a more successful existence.
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Six Dimensions of Wellness - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔-
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occupational
-Physical
-Social
-Intellectual
-Spiritual
-Emotional


What is Community? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔•A
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group of people who have common characteristics
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•Can be defined by location, race, ethnicity, age,
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occupation, interest in particular problems or outcomes, || || || || || || ||



or common bonds
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Health of Community - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔-
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Physical Factors ||




-Social and Cultural Factors
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-Individual Behavior ||




-Community Organization ||

, Physical Factors - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔-Geography
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-Environment
-Community Size ||




-Industrial Development ||




Social And Cultural Factors - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔§Beliefs, traditions, and prejudices || || ||




§Economy
§Politics
§Religion
§Social norms ||




§Socioeconomic status ||




Social Determinants of Health - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔Chpt:1 power point Slide:16 || || ||




History of Public Health: Eighteenth Century - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔•Overcrowding, unsafe workplaces
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•Diseases such as smallpox, cholera, typhoid fever, and
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yellow fever run rampant
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•Greatest epidemic of yellow fever occurs in Philadelphia
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in 1793 with an estimated 23,000 cases
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