PUBH 201 quiz 1
The Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) - correct answer ✔✔defines health as "a state
of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
Global health - correct answer ✔✔refers to the collaborative actions taken to identify and address
transnational concerns about the exposures and diseases that adversely affect human populations
Etiology - correct answer ✔✔is the study of the social and behavioral, environmental, biological, and
other causes of disease.•A person's health status at a given age is a function of his or her experiences
across the life course.
Medicine - correct answer ✔✔focuses on preventing, diagnosing, and treating health problems in
individuals and families
Public health - correct answer ✔✔focuses on promoting health and preventing illnesses, injuries, and
early deaths at the population level by identifying and mitigating environmental hazards, promoting
healthy behaviors, ensuring access to essential health services, and taking other actions to protect the
health, safety, and wellbeing of groups of people.•The lines between medicine and public health are
blurry.
intervention - correct answer ✔✔is a strategic action intended to improve individual and population
health status.•Interventions targeted at any level, from the individual to the community, the nation, and
the world, can be effective at improving personal and public health.
Prevention science - correct answer ✔✔is the study of which preventive health interventions are
effective in various populations, how successful the interventions are, and how well they can be scaled
up for widespread implementation.•There are three levels of prevention: primary, secondary, and
tertiary.
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
, secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you
cannot completely prevent.
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔-aims to prevent the long-term consequences of a chronic illness
or disability and to support optimal functioning
-examples: rehab
Primordal Prevention - correct answer ✔✔targets social and economic policies effecting health
health transition - correct answer ✔✔is a shift in the health status of a population that usually occurs in
conjunction with socioeconomic development.•Because some countries have gone through these health
transitions and other countries have not, there are now significant differences in health status in the
highest-income and lowest-income countries.
Global health security - correct answer ✔✔seeks to protect populations from threats to health and
safety by engaging a diversity of stakeholders, including governmental and military personnel, in public
health interventions.•Communities and countries suffering from widespread health problems are more
likely to have political and economic instability, and poverty and unrest can further exacerbate public
health problems that might spill over into other parts of the world.•International and global health
initiatives can help to break this cycle, facilitating peace and productivity
Globalization - correct answer ✔✔is the process of countries around the world becoming more
integrated and interdependent across economic, political, cultural, and other domains.•Global health
offers a proactive way to prevent outbreaks (and to respond to them when they happen), to protect
economic and political interests at home and abroad, to promote goodwill and humanitarian values, and
to achieve shared health goals.
The uneven distribution of healthy tech - correct answer ✔✔of access to them has generated a massive
intensification of health disparities
US pub health achievements - correct answer ✔✔vaccination, motor vehicle safety, mother baby health,
flouridization of water, safer and healthier foods
Recent US achievements - correct answer ✔✔reductions in child mortality, vaccine preventable disease,
malaria prevention, tobacco control
The Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) - correct answer ✔✔defines health as "a state
of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
Global health - correct answer ✔✔refers to the collaborative actions taken to identify and address
transnational concerns about the exposures and diseases that adversely affect human populations
Etiology - correct answer ✔✔is the study of the social and behavioral, environmental, biological, and
other causes of disease.•A person's health status at a given age is a function of his or her experiences
across the life course.
Medicine - correct answer ✔✔focuses on preventing, diagnosing, and treating health problems in
individuals and families
Public health - correct answer ✔✔focuses on promoting health and preventing illnesses, injuries, and
early deaths at the population level by identifying and mitigating environmental hazards, promoting
healthy behaviors, ensuring access to essential health services, and taking other actions to protect the
health, safety, and wellbeing of groups of people.•The lines between medicine and public health are
blurry.
intervention - correct answer ✔✔is a strategic action intended to improve individual and population
health status.•Interventions targeted at any level, from the individual to the community, the nation, and
the world, can be effective at improving personal and public health.
Prevention science - correct answer ✔✔is the study of which preventive health interventions are
effective in various populations, how successful the interventions are, and how well they can be scaled
up for widespread implementation.•There are three levels of prevention: primary, secondary, and
tertiary.
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
, secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you
cannot completely prevent.
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔-aims to prevent the long-term consequences of a chronic illness
or disability and to support optimal functioning
-examples: rehab
Primordal Prevention - correct answer ✔✔targets social and economic policies effecting health
health transition - correct answer ✔✔is a shift in the health status of a population that usually occurs in
conjunction with socioeconomic development.•Because some countries have gone through these health
transitions and other countries have not, there are now significant differences in health status in the
highest-income and lowest-income countries.
Global health security - correct answer ✔✔seeks to protect populations from threats to health and
safety by engaging a diversity of stakeholders, including governmental and military personnel, in public
health interventions.•Communities and countries suffering from widespread health problems are more
likely to have political and economic instability, and poverty and unrest can further exacerbate public
health problems that might spill over into other parts of the world.•International and global health
initiatives can help to break this cycle, facilitating peace and productivity
Globalization - correct answer ✔✔is the process of countries around the world becoming more
integrated and interdependent across economic, political, cultural, and other domains.•Global health
offers a proactive way to prevent outbreaks (and to respond to them when they happen), to protect
economic and political interests at home and abroad, to promote goodwill and humanitarian values, and
to achieve shared health goals.
The uneven distribution of healthy tech - correct answer ✔✔of access to them has generated a massive
intensification of health disparities
US pub health achievements - correct answer ✔✔vaccination, motor vehicle safety, mother baby health,
flouridization of water, safer and healthier foods
Recent US achievements - correct answer ✔✔reductions in child mortality, vaccine preventable disease,
malaria prevention, tobacco control
