PUBH 302 GALLOWAY EXAM 1
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Ancient Greece.
Answer: - ***Personal hygiene***
- ***Physical fitness (olympics)***
***Naturalistic concept (disease by imbalance between man and his
environment) ***
◉ Roman Empire.
Answer: -Adopted Greek health values
-***Great engineers (sewage, aqueducts)***
***Administration collected taxes (public baths, water supply,
markets) ***
◉ Middle Ages.
Answer: -Shift away from Greek and Roman values
● Physical body less important than spiritual self
● ***Decline of hygiene and sanitation***
- Beginnings of PH tools
,● ***Quarantine of ships, isolation of diseased individuals***
◉ Renaissance/Global Exploration.
Answer: -Disease spread by traders/explorers (smallpox, measles,
typhoid)
-***Killed 90% of indigenous people***
◉ Birth of Modern Medicine.
Answer: -Age of Reason and Enlightenment
-Laid foundation for more scientific exploration
◉ Industrialization and Urbanization.
Answer: -*** "New" PH problems (slums, poverty, disease, worse
than before) ***
-***Working class life expectancy of 7 years !!!***
◉ Great Sanitary Awakening.
Answer: - ***Growth in scientific knowledge (origin and treatment
of disease)***
- Humanitarian ideals
- ***Connection between poverty and disease***
- Water supply/sewage removal
, - Monitor community health status. ***-even today, poverty is the
best predictor of poor health***
◉ England Sanitary Reform.
Answer: ■ 1842 Chadwick Report (first modern sanitation
legislation)
◉ Modern Public Health.
Answer: - **Clean water, water treatment**
- **Food inspection**
- **Soaps, disinfectants, pharmaceuticals**
- **Personal hygiene**
- *** Public works department; garbage collection, landfills, street
cleaning***
- ***Public health departments and regulation ***
◉ Why is PH important?.
Answer: ● ***Mortality and Morbidity prevented***
● **Longer life expectancy**
● ***Quality of life***
◉ 10 great public health achievements (1990-1999).
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Ancient Greece.
Answer: - ***Personal hygiene***
- ***Physical fitness (olympics)***
***Naturalistic concept (disease by imbalance between man and his
environment) ***
◉ Roman Empire.
Answer: -Adopted Greek health values
-***Great engineers (sewage, aqueducts)***
***Administration collected taxes (public baths, water supply,
markets) ***
◉ Middle Ages.
Answer: -Shift away from Greek and Roman values
● Physical body less important than spiritual self
● ***Decline of hygiene and sanitation***
- Beginnings of PH tools
,● ***Quarantine of ships, isolation of diseased individuals***
◉ Renaissance/Global Exploration.
Answer: -Disease spread by traders/explorers (smallpox, measles,
typhoid)
-***Killed 90% of indigenous people***
◉ Birth of Modern Medicine.
Answer: -Age of Reason and Enlightenment
-Laid foundation for more scientific exploration
◉ Industrialization and Urbanization.
Answer: -*** "New" PH problems (slums, poverty, disease, worse
than before) ***
-***Working class life expectancy of 7 years !!!***
◉ Great Sanitary Awakening.
Answer: - ***Growth in scientific knowledge (origin and treatment
of disease)***
- Humanitarian ideals
- ***Connection between poverty and disease***
- Water supply/sewage removal
, - Monitor community health status. ***-even today, poverty is the
best predictor of poor health***
◉ England Sanitary Reform.
Answer: ■ 1842 Chadwick Report (first modern sanitation
legislation)
◉ Modern Public Health.
Answer: - **Clean water, water treatment**
- **Food inspection**
- **Soaps, disinfectants, pharmaceuticals**
- **Personal hygiene**
- *** Public works department; garbage collection, landfills, street
cleaning***
- ***Public health departments and regulation ***
◉ Why is PH important?.
Answer: ● ***Mortality and Morbidity prevented***
● **Longer life expectancy**
● ***Quality of life***
◉ 10 great public health achievements (1990-1999).
