CHS FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Health - ✔✔ correct answer -Physical
-Mental ex) Ecological Perspective
-Social
Community - ✔✔ correct answer groups of people who have something in common, defined
groups/large groups
Population - ✔✔ correct answer variation/diversity, big scale
Public - ✔✔ correct answer infrastructure, agencies/programs
Public Health 3P's - ✔✔ correct answer Population, Prevention, Perspective (Ecological)
Primary Preventions - ✔✔ correct answer Warning Signs, Barrier, Guards/Security, Media, Educated
Lifeguard (reduce the risk entirely)
ex) avoiding sex
Secondary Prevention - ✔✔ correct answer early detection or management ex) using a condom
Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔ correct answer life-saving, after harm
ex) saving your life after you get cervical cancer
Ethical Dilemma - ✔✔ correct answer individual freedom (autonomy) vs. public good
Healthy Carrier - ✔✔ correct answer immune system protects bacteria
Quarantine - ✔✔ correct answer don't know who is infectious
Isolation - ✔✔ correct answer knows who is infection/separated
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Host - ✔✔ correct answer person who may get disease (doesn't have to be human)
Environment - ✔✔ correct answer air temp., humidity, wind
Agent - ✔✔ correct answer modes of transmission
Reservoir - ✔✔ correct answer pathogens lives & replicates (can be humans/environment)
Infectious - ✔✔ correct answer caused by bacteria
Contagious - ✔✔ correct answer spread by one another
Incubation Period - ✔✔ correct answer period between exposure and symptoms
ex) one day before symptoms, adults can spread virus, kids are infectious the whole time
Asymptomatic Transmission - ✔✔ correct answer doesn't have symptoms but can still spread disease
ex) Healthy Carrier/Colonized
Direct Transmissions - ✔✔ correct answer skin to skin, respiratory droplet, body fluids, fecal oral
Indirect Transmissions - ✔✔ correct answer airborne, vehicleborne and inanimate, water borne, vector
borne
Vertical Transmission - ✔✔ correct answer parent to offspring
Epidemiology - ✔✔ correct answer distribution and determinants of health & illness
-spread factors that influence distribution
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Case - ✔✔ correct answer human being who has disease
Endemic - ✔✔ correct answer expected rate of cases/geography of cases in certain areas
-expected amount of disease
-person, place, time
Epidemic - ✔✔ correct answer more than expected cases, doesn't spread globally
Outbreak - ✔✔ correct answer constrained location
Pandemic - ✔✔ correct answer epidemic that spans more than one continent
Incidence - ✔✔ correct answer rate of disease=new
population
Prevalence - ✔✔ correct answer all existing
Reportable Diseases - ✔✔ correct answer disease that must be recorded to the Health Department
Passive Surveillance - ✔✔ correct answer Health Department waits for reports to be sent in
-ex) Reportable disease
Active Surveillance - ✔✔ correct answer send out staff that looks through reports, you look through
records
Enhanced Passive Surveillance - ✔✔ correct answer doctors send out alerts/reminder for doctors to look
out
Syndromic Surveillance - ✔✔ correct answer looking for evidence of symptoms
Health - ✔✔ correct answer -Physical
-Mental ex) Ecological Perspective
-Social
Community - ✔✔ correct answer groups of people who have something in common, defined
groups/large groups
Population - ✔✔ correct answer variation/diversity, big scale
Public - ✔✔ correct answer infrastructure, agencies/programs
Public Health 3P's - ✔✔ correct answer Population, Prevention, Perspective (Ecological)
Primary Preventions - ✔✔ correct answer Warning Signs, Barrier, Guards/Security, Media, Educated
Lifeguard (reduce the risk entirely)
ex) avoiding sex
Secondary Prevention - ✔✔ correct answer early detection or management ex) using a condom
Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔ correct answer life-saving, after harm
ex) saving your life after you get cervical cancer
Ethical Dilemma - ✔✔ correct answer individual freedom (autonomy) vs. public good
Healthy Carrier - ✔✔ correct answer immune system protects bacteria
Quarantine - ✔✔ correct answer don't know who is infectious
Isolation - ✔✔ correct answer knows who is infection/separated
,CHS FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Host - ✔✔ correct answer person who may get disease (doesn't have to be human)
Environment - ✔✔ correct answer air temp., humidity, wind
Agent - ✔✔ correct answer modes of transmission
Reservoir - ✔✔ correct answer pathogens lives & replicates (can be humans/environment)
Infectious - ✔✔ correct answer caused by bacteria
Contagious - ✔✔ correct answer spread by one another
Incubation Period - ✔✔ correct answer period between exposure and symptoms
ex) one day before symptoms, adults can spread virus, kids are infectious the whole time
Asymptomatic Transmission - ✔✔ correct answer doesn't have symptoms but can still spread disease
ex) Healthy Carrier/Colonized
Direct Transmissions - ✔✔ correct answer skin to skin, respiratory droplet, body fluids, fecal oral
Indirect Transmissions - ✔✔ correct answer airborne, vehicleborne and inanimate, water borne, vector
borne
Vertical Transmission - ✔✔ correct answer parent to offspring
Epidemiology - ✔✔ correct answer distribution and determinants of health & illness
-spread factors that influence distribution
, CHS FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Case - ✔✔ correct answer human being who has disease
Endemic - ✔✔ correct answer expected rate of cases/geography of cases in certain areas
-expected amount of disease
-person, place, time
Epidemic - ✔✔ correct answer more than expected cases, doesn't spread globally
Outbreak - ✔✔ correct answer constrained location
Pandemic - ✔✔ correct answer epidemic that spans more than one continent
Incidence - ✔✔ correct answer rate of disease=new
population
Prevalence - ✔✔ correct answer all existing
Reportable Diseases - ✔✔ correct answer disease that must be recorded to the Health Department
Passive Surveillance - ✔✔ correct answer Health Department waits for reports to be sent in
-ex) Reportable disease
Active Surveillance - ✔✔ correct answer send out staff that looks through reports, you look through
records
Enhanced Passive Surveillance - ✔✔ correct answer doctors send out alerts/reminder for doctors to look
out
Syndromic Surveillance - ✔✔ correct answer looking for evidence of symptoms
