EXAM 1 PBH 205 UNLV SHEILA CLARK UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. 3 core functions of public health
Answer:
1. assessment
2. policy development
3. assurance
Question:
2. assessment
Answer:
(diagnosis) constitutes the diagnostic function in which a public health agency collects, assembles,
analyzes, and makes available information on the health of the pop.
Question:
3. policy development
Answer:
(doctor's development of a treatment plan) involves use of scientific knowledge to develop a strategic
approach to improving the com-munity's health
Question:
4. assurance
Answer:
(doctor's actual treatment) assuring the services needed for the pro-tection of public health in the
community are available and accessible to everyone
Question:
5. life expectancy
Answer:
increased from 45 to 75 years over course of 20th century
Question:
6. health promotion
Answer:
prospective approach in contrast to the reactive focus of therapeutic medicine and their common
science, epidemiology
Question:
7. epidemiology
Answer:
basic science of public health. focuses on human populations, start-ing with an outbreak of a disease
in a community seeking causative factor via shared or different characteristics
Question:
8. PH approach to health problem (5 steps)
, Answer:
1. define health problem
2. identify risk factors associated
3 develop and test community-level interventions to control or pre-vent the cause of the problem
4. implement interventions to improve the health of the population
5. monitor those interventions to assess their effectiveness
Question:
9. The early history of U.S. public health was close-ly tied to social reform movements. Which of the
following public health is-sues would not be consid-ered social reform?
Answer:
Communicable disease control
Question:
10. Which of the following statements best express-es the social justice view of public health?
Answer:
Members of a community have collective responsibility for their com-mon welfare.
Question:
11. Which of the following jus-tifications for limiting peo-ple's freedom is likely to be the most
controversial?
Answer:
To prevent someone from harming himself.
Question:
12. Restricting individual free-doms for public health purposes is unconstitu-tional. T or F
Answer:
false
Question:
13. local public health agen-cies
Answer:
conduct communicable disease control programs, providing screen-ing and immunizations, providing
health education services and chronic disease control programs, conducting sanitation, inspection
programs, etc
Question:
14. state health departments
Answer:
have primary constitutional responsibility and authority for the pro-tection of the health, safety, and
general welfare of the population
Question:
15. federal agencies involved with public health
Answer:
-CDC -national institute of health (NIH) -food and drug administration (FDA)
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. 3 core functions of public health
Answer:
1. assessment
2. policy development
3. assurance
Question:
2. assessment
Answer:
(diagnosis) constitutes the diagnostic function in which a public health agency collects, assembles,
analyzes, and makes available information on the health of the pop.
Question:
3. policy development
Answer:
(doctor's development of a treatment plan) involves use of scientific knowledge to develop a strategic
approach to improving the com-munity's health
Question:
4. assurance
Answer:
(doctor's actual treatment) assuring the services needed for the pro-tection of public health in the
community are available and accessible to everyone
Question:
5. life expectancy
Answer:
increased from 45 to 75 years over course of 20th century
Question:
6. health promotion
Answer:
prospective approach in contrast to the reactive focus of therapeutic medicine and their common
science, epidemiology
Question:
7. epidemiology
Answer:
basic science of public health. focuses on human populations, start-ing with an outbreak of a disease
in a community seeking causative factor via shared or different characteristics
Question:
8. PH approach to health problem (5 steps)
, Answer:
1. define health problem
2. identify risk factors associated
3 develop and test community-level interventions to control or pre-vent the cause of the problem
4. implement interventions to improve the health of the population
5. monitor those interventions to assess their effectiveness
Question:
9. The early history of U.S. public health was close-ly tied to social reform movements. Which of the
following public health is-sues would not be consid-ered social reform?
Answer:
Communicable disease control
Question:
10. Which of the following statements best express-es the social justice view of public health?
Answer:
Members of a community have collective responsibility for their com-mon welfare.
Question:
11. Which of the following jus-tifications for limiting peo-ple's freedom is likely to be the most
controversial?
Answer:
To prevent someone from harming himself.
Question:
12. Restricting individual free-doms for public health purposes is unconstitu-tional. T or F
Answer:
false
Question:
13. local public health agen-cies
Answer:
conduct communicable disease control programs, providing screen-ing and immunizations, providing
health education services and chronic disease control programs, conducting sanitation, inspection
programs, etc
Question:
14. state health departments
Answer:
have primary constitutional responsibility and authority for the pro-tection of the health, safety, and
general welfare of the population
Question:
15. federal agencies involved with public health
Answer:
-CDC -national institute of health (NIH) -food and drug administration (FDA)
