PUBH 201 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PUBH 201 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. What is PH
Answer:
-the fulfillment of society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy
-organized community efforts aimed at the prevention of disease and the promotion of

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2. "the future of public health"
Answer:
defines the mission of public health as "the fulfillment of society's interest in assuring conditions in which
people can be healthy"

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3. definition of PH
Answer:
health of the population as a whole, especially as monitored, regulated, and promoted by the state

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4. Core functions of PH
Answer:
ASSESSMENT (diagonostic function), POLICY DEVELOPMENT(strategic approach to improve
community's health), ASSURANCE (assuring that the services needed for the protection of public health
in the community are available and accessible to everyone

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5. "rectangularizing" the life curve
Answer:
goal of the public health life expectancy for peopleímaking it bigger than ideal

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6. PH disciplines
Answer:
epidemiology (outbreak of diease), statistics (data of the community), biomedical sciences (studies
prevention and control for diseases like AIDS, flu), environmental health science (preventing disease
through water, air, and food), social and behavioral sciences (studying disease relation with behavior and
social environment), and health policy and management (role of medical care in public health)

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7. Primary, secondary, & tertiary prevention

,Answer:
PRIMARY: prevent disease (discourage teenagers from smoking and encouraging smokers to quit)
SECONDRY: minimize severity of the illness (detect cancer early when it's treatable) TERTIARY:
minimize the disability, rehabilitations

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8. chain of causation
Answer:
AGENT, HOST, ENVIRONMENT, INTERVENTIONS (suicide example: susceptible young person
(host), gun pills etc (agent), school, family, social media (environment), intervention (make young people
less susceptible to self- destructive thinking

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9. market justice
Answer:
-emphasizes individual responsibility, minimal obligation to the common good, and the "fundamental
freedom to all individuals to be left alone"
-powerful forces of environment, hereditary, and social structure prevent a fair distribution of the burdens
and benefits of society

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10. social justice
Answer:
-suggests that minimal levels of income, basic housing, employment, education, and health care should be
seen as fundamental rights
-public health disease

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11. Cost vs. benefit in PH
Answer:
cost easier to measure than benefit (ex: cost of reducing the smog to reduce level of lung disease, but how
would they calculate benefit is worth the cost?)

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12. Tragedy of the commons
Answer:
-"freedom to pollute", behavior on INDIRECT HARM, in order to save the community people need to
restrict freedom (such as pollution) placing fair and equitable limits for the purposeof protecting people's
health and safety

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13. "paternalism"
Answer:
restrictions on individual behavior; children and young people can be restricted in their behavior on the
basis that they are not mature enough to make considered judgments asto their own best interests

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14. Political interference w/ science
Answer:
-ex: promoting abstinence by the CDC to prevent teen pregnancy, forced to remove on their website
"programs that work" for sex education that teenagers have found effective
-politics can limit release of scientific evidence

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15. Administrative agencies
Answer:
-public health has a responsibility primarily of the states, not under the country
-there are county and city health departments
-public health activities may be delegated by the state to local governments
-agencies vary from state to state

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16. Role of the courts
Answer:
-federal: power to tax and spend, can provide funds to states, made states pass law to make motorcyclists
wear helmets, Medicaid program (providing health care for the poor), has steadily widened its role in
public health
-states: sanitation, regular safety, immunization,
-LEGISLATIVE: passes statutes
-EXECUTIVE: public health agencies carry out the law; may issue regulations
-JUDICIAL: laws and regulations can be challenged in court

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17. OSHA (occupational safety and health administration)
Answer:
-sets standards regulating employees' exposure to hazardous substances
-has regulated benzene, which caused a variety of toxic effects among workers in the rubber and
petrochemical industries

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18. CDC
Answer:
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
-main epidemiologic and assessment agency in the nation
-mission="to control and prevent humans diseases"
-chronic diseases, genetics, injury and violence, and environmental health
-publishes Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

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19. NIH