PBH 101 Exam 3 - Public Health Exam Questions & Verified Answers
health disparity Health outcomes and/or opportunities to achieve optimal health resulting from
inequities
Equity treating everyone fairly
Equality treating everyone the same
Social Justice everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities
Example of health disparity Women having a higher chance for breast cancer than men is NOT one but an
African American women having a higher chance than a white woman is one
Epidemiology Transition Overtime, as a region develops, that area will prior go from infectious disease and
transition into others such as heart disease, cancer, or stroke
Age of Pestilence and Famine Mortality is high and fluctuating, life expectancy is low and variable, starvation and
disease
Receding pandemics Lessening over time
Man made and degenerative disease Long and slow decline
Leading cause of death, 1900 pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea
Leading cause of death 2000 heart disease, cancer, stroke
Percentage of health care dollars spent on chronic 75%
conditions
ischemic stroke a type of stroke that occurs when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked,
atherosclerosis
hemmoragic stroke High blood pressure (hypertension) blood vessel and artery damage due to clots
and plaques
Highest risk cancer for male death Lung cancer (most deaths) - prostate (more cases)
, PBH 101 Exam 3 - Public Health Exam Questions & Verified Answers
Highest risk cancer for female death Lung cancer (most deaths) - breast cancer (more cases)
prostate cancer No primary prevention but can screen. Old age.
Lung cancer Modifiable risk factors: smoking, second hand smoking, occupational chemical
exposures, radon gas
Breast cancer Modifiable risk factors: obesity, heavy drinking
colorectal cancer Modifiable risk factors: smoking, high diet in red meat, obesity, heavy drinking,
physical inactivity, type 2 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes autoimmune insulin deficiency disorder caused by poor pancreas
Type 2 diabetes Diabetes of a form that develops especially in adults and most often obese
individuals and that is characterized by high blood glucose resulting from impaired
insulin utilization coupled with the body's inability to compensate with increased
insulin production.
gestational diabetes During pregnancy, body can't keep up
Health promotion Health policies, healthy environments, and healthy behaviors
Health Impact Pyramid - counseling and education
- clinical interventions
- long-lasting protective interventions
- changing the context to make individuals' default decisions healthy
- socioeconomic factors
Health promotion logic model Communication/education
- Knowledge/attitude/skills
Behavior
- Improved health status
Policy/environment
- resources/access/social norms
- changed behaviors
- new health outcomes
MAPPS Model -Media
-Access
-Point of decision
-Price
-Social support
Media Marketing, increasing good information and decreasing bad
health disparity Health outcomes and/or opportunities to achieve optimal health resulting from
inequities
Equity treating everyone fairly
Equality treating everyone the same
Social Justice everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities
Example of health disparity Women having a higher chance for breast cancer than men is NOT one but an
African American women having a higher chance than a white woman is one
Epidemiology Transition Overtime, as a region develops, that area will prior go from infectious disease and
transition into others such as heart disease, cancer, or stroke
Age of Pestilence and Famine Mortality is high and fluctuating, life expectancy is low and variable, starvation and
disease
Receding pandemics Lessening over time
Man made and degenerative disease Long and slow decline
Leading cause of death, 1900 pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhea
Leading cause of death 2000 heart disease, cancer, stroke
Percentage of health care dollars spent on chronic 75%
conditions
ischemic stroke a type of stroke that occurs when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked,
atherosclerosis
hemmoragic stroke High blood pressure (hypertension) blood vessel and artery damage due to clots
and plaques
Highest risk cancer for male death Lung cancer (most deaths) - prostate (more cases)
, PBH 101 Exam 3 - Public Health Exam Questions & Verified Answers
Highest risk cancer for female death Lung cancer (most deaths) - breast cancer (more cases)
prostate cancer No primary prevention but can screen. Old age.
Lung cancer Modifiable risk factors: smoking, second hand smoking, occupational chemical
exposures, radon gas
Breast cancer Modifiable risk factors: obesity, heavy drinking
colorectal cancer Modifiable risk factors: smoking, high diet in red meat, obesity, heavy drinking,
physical inactivity, type 2 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes autoimmune insulin deficiency disorder caused by poor pancreas
Type 2 diabetes Diabetes of a form that develops especially in adults and most often obese
individuals and that is characterized by high blood glucose resulting from impaired
insulin utilization coupled with the body's inability to compensate with increased
insulin production.
gestational diabetes During pregnancy, body can't keep up
Health promotion Health policies, healthy environments, and healthy behaviors
Health Impact Pyramid - counseling and education
- clinical interventions
- long-lasting protective interventions
- changing the context to make individuals' default decisions healthy
- socioeconomic factors
Health promotion logic model Communication/education
- Knowledge/attitude/skills
Behavior
- Improved health status
Policy/environment
- resources/access/social norms
- changed behaviors
- new health outcomes
MAPPS Model -Media
-Access
-Point of decision
-Price
-Social support
Media Marketing, increasing good information and decreasing bad
