Primary Health Care Exam 1 questions
well answered to pass
WHO origin and responsibilities - correct answer ✔✔o An agency of the United Nations founded in 1948
-Identify global health research priorities
-Monitor epidemics
-Compile health statistics
-Evidence based practice
Define PACES - correct answer ✔✔Population
Action
Cooperation
Equity
Security
Population (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on the exposures and diseases that cause the greatest
public health burden and affect large numbers of people in diverse geographic regions
cardiovascular disease, drinking water
Action (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on effective, low-cost interventions that prevent illness and
injury, diagnose and treat diseases, and alleviate suffering
Hunger, HIV medication
Cooperation (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on health concerns that must be addressed through
worldwide efforts to share knowledge, tools, and resources
air pollution, drug resistant infections
, Equity (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on helping the global poor and addressing social,
environmental, and health inequalities
mental health, neglected tropical disease/ parasitic disease
Security (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on addressing the health issues most likely to contribute to
political and economic instability and conflict
violence, emerging infectious diseases
Primary intervention - correct answer ✔✔people without disease, preventing disease from occurring
vaccinating children, giving vitamin A to prevent blindness
Secondary intervention - correct answer ✔✔person with early or non-symptomatic disease, reduce the
severity of disease to prevent disability and death
checking blood pressure, mammogram
Tertiary intervention - correct answer ✔✔person with symptomatic disease, reduce impairment and
minimize suffering
Physical therapy, extracting teeth with severe decay to alleviate pain
Define Health Promotion - correct answer ✔✔Modifying behavior of individuals to improve society at
large in order to decrease risk of illness and improve health
Define Public Health and its core disciplines - correct answer ✔✔Public Health: promotes health and
preventing illness, injury, and early deaths at the population level
well answered to pass
WHO origin and responsibilities - correct answer ✔✔o An agency of the United Nations founded in 1948
-Identify global health research priorities
-Monitor epidemics
-Compile health statistics
-Evidence based practice
Define PACES - correct answer ✔✔Population
Action
Cooperation
Equity
Security
Population (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on the exposures and diseases that cause the greatest
public health burden and affect large numbers of people in diverse geographic regions
cardiovascular disease, drinking water
Action (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on effective, low-cost interventions that prevent illness and
injury, diagnose and treat diseases, and alleviate suffering
Hunger, HIV medication
Cooperation (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on health concerns that must be addressed through
worldwide efforts to share knowledge, tools, and resources
air pollution, drug resistant infections
, Equity (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on helping the global poor and addressing social,
environmental, and health inequalities
mental health, neglected tropical disease/ parasitic disease
Security (PACES) - correct answer ✔✔Focus on addressing the health issues most likely to contribute to
political and economic instability and conflict
violence, emerging infectious diseases
Primary intervention - correct answer ✔✔people without disease, preventing disease from occurring
vaccinating children, giving vitamin A to prevent blindness
Secondary intervention - correct answer ✔✔person with early or non-symptomatic disease, reduce the
severity of disease to prevent disability and death
checking blood pressure, mammogram
Tertiary intervention - correct answer ✔✔person with symptomatic disease, reduce impairment and
minimize suffering
Physical therapy, extracting teeth with severe decay to alleviate pain
Define Health Promotion - correct answer ✔✔Modifying behavior of individuals to improve society at
large in order to decrease risk of illness and improve health
Define Public Health and its core disciplines - correct answer ✔✔Public Health: promotes health and
preventing illness, injury, and early deaths at the population level
