PHC 6001 Exam 1 questions well
answered to pass
Two major indicators of public health - correct answer ✔✔-Infant mortality
-Life expectancy
Definition of public health - correct answer ✔✔Combination of sciences, skills, and beliefs directed to
the maintenance and improvement of the health of all the people through collective or societal actions
Core functions of public health - correct answer ✔✔-Assessment
-Policy development
-Assurance
Tools of public health - correct answer ✔✔-Surveillance systems
-Implementation of research findings
-Dissemination of guidelines
-Development of effective public health interventions
-Public policy
Goals of public health - correct answer ✔✔To protect, promote, and restore the health of the population
___________ asks, What is the problem? - correct answer ✔✔Surveillance
____________ asks, What is the cause? - correct answer ✔✔Risk factor evaluation
___________ asks, What works? - correct answer ✔✔Intervention and evaluation
___________ asks, How do you do it? - correct answer ✔✔Implementation
, Epidemiologic tools are used to identify.... - correct answer ✔✔-frequency
-distribution
-determinants
-control
__________ is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in
specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems. - correct
answer ✔✔Epidemiology
Modes of disease transmission - correct answer ✔✔-Direct
-Indirect
______________ is the resistance of a group of people to an attack by a disease to which a large
proportion of the members of the group are immune. - correct answer ✔✔Herd immunity
____________ is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of
outcome-specific data for use in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.
- correct answer ✔✔Surveillance
________________ is the recognition of a new or increased pattern of morbidity or mortality. - correct
answer ✔✔Clinical observation
____________ describe new patterns in distribution and attributes of health-related states, and
generates hypotheses about exposures and outcomes. - correct answer ✔✔Descriptive studies
_____________ test specific hypotheses with the goal of identifying causal links. - correct answer
✔✔Analytic studies
_________ is the usual or constant presence of a disease in a geographic area or population. - correct
answer ✔✔Endemic
answered to pass
Two major indicators of public health - correct answer ✔✔-Infant mortality
-Life expectancy
Definition of public health - correct answer ✔✔Combination of sciences, skills, and beliefs directed to
the maintenance and improvement of the health of all the people through collective or societal actions
Core functions of public health - correct answer ✔✔-Assessment
-Policy development
-Assurance
Tools of public health - correct answer ✔✔-Surveillance systems
-Implementation of research findings
-Dissemination of guidelines
-Development of effective public health interventions
-Public policy
Goals of public health - correct answer ✔✔To protect, promote, and restore the health of the population
___________ asks, What is the problem? - correct answer ✔✔Surveillance
____________ asks, What is the cause? - correct answer ✔✔Risk factor evaluation
___________ asks, What works? - correct answer ✔✔Intervention and evaluation
___________ asks, How do you do it? - correct answer ✔✔Implementation
, Epidemiologic tools are used to identify.... - correct answer ✔✔-frequency
-distribution
-determinants
-control
__________ is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in
specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems. - correct
answer ✔✔Epidemiology
Modes of disease transmission - correct answer ✔✔-Direct
-Indirect
______________ is the resistance of a group of people to an attack by a disease to which a large
proportion of the members of the group are immune. - correct answer ✔✔Herd immunity
____________ is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of
outcome-specific data for use in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice.
- correct answer ✔✔Surveillance
________________ is the recognition of a new or increased pattern of morbidity or mortality. - correct
answer ✔✔Clinical observation
____________ describe new patterns in distribution and attributes of health-related states, and
generates hypotheses about exposures and outcomes. - correct answer ✔✔Descriptive studies
_____________ test specific hypotheses with the goal of identifying causal links. - correct answer
✔✔Analytic studies
_________ is the usual or constant presence of a disease in a geographic area or population. - correct
answer ✔✔Endemic
