PHC 4101 Quiz 1 (Weeks1-4) well
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10 essential public health services - correct answer ✔✔1. Monitor health status to identify and
solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
Core Public Health Functions - correct answer ✔✔assessment, policy development, assurance
Morbidity - correct answer ✔✔Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a
population or group.
mortality - correct answer ✔✔rate of deaths in a population
five core disciplines of public health - correct answer ✔✔Epidemiology, Biostats, Health
management policy, environmental health, social and behavioral sciences
, Hallmarks of Public Health: - correct answer ✔✔social injustice, populations, prevention
Public health approach vs. Medical approach - correct answer ✔✔Individual v. population
Diagnosis/treatment v. Prevent/health promote
Cure disease v. maintain health
PH- join lab and field involvement, clinical science peripheral to professional training
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer ✔✔advocated hand washing to prevent transmission of
puerperal fever from one OB patient to another
James Lind - correct answer ✔✔Discovered a cure for scurvy; first clinical trial
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔father of epidemiology; traced cholera outbreak in Soho
Geoffrey Vickers, 1958 - correct answer ✔✔Developed a definition for PH
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow - correct answer ✔✔1920 developed a definition for PH;
considered 4/5 areas of core of PH (not biostats); yale professor
Levels of Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Primary: prevent/promotion Secondary: screen-early
detection Tertiary: treat- to prevent further deterioration, rehab
Mission of Public Health - correct answer ✔✔the fulfillment of society's interest in assuring the
conditions in which people can be healthy
Social Justice in Public Health - correct answer ✔✔Does everyone have a right to healthcare?;
distribution of advantages and disadvantages
answered 100% correct
10 essential public health services - correct answer ✔✔1. Monitor health status to identify and
solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
Core Public Health Functions - correct answer ✔✔assessment, policy development, assurance
Morbidity - correct answer ✔✔Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a
population or group.
mortality - correct answer ✔✔rate of deaths in a population
five core disciplines of public health - correct answer ✔✔Epidemiology, Biostats, Health
management policy, environmental health, social and behavioral sciences
, Hallmarks of Public Health: - correct answer ✔✔social injustice, populations, prevention
Public health approach vs. Medical approach - correct answer ✔✔Individual v. population
Diagnosis/treatment v. Prevent/health promote
Cure disease v. maintain health
PH- join lab and field involvement, clinical science peripheral to professional training
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer ✔✔advocated hand washing to prevent transmission of
puerperal fever from one OB patient to another
James Lind - correct answer ✔✔Discovered a cure for scurvy; first clinical trial
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔father of epidemiology; traced cholera outbreak in Soho
Geoffrey Vickers, 1958 - correct answer ✔✔Developed a definition for PH
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow - correct answer ✔✔1920 developed a definition for PH;
considered 4/5 areas of core of PH (not biostats); yale professor
Levels of Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Primary: prevent/promotion Secondary: screen-early
detection Tertiary: treat- to prevent further deterioration, rehab
Mission of Public Health - correct answer ✔✔the fulfillment of society's interest in assuring the
conditions in which people can be healthy
Social Justice in Public Health - correct answer ✔✔Does everyone have a right to healthcare?;
distribution of advantages and disadvantages
