PHC 4101 Quiz 1 Notes correctly
answered to pass
Public Health Definition - correct answer ✔✔The science and art of preventing disease,
prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of
society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals
James Lind - correct answer ✔✔1st clinical trial
Scurvy
Disease prevention
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔Traced cholera outbreak
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer ✔✔Hand washing
Peripheral fever remedy
Public Health Focuses - correct answer ✔✔Population focus
- prevention
- health emphasis
- public health ethic
- joint laboratory and field involvement
- clinical sciences peripheral to professional training
- public sector basis
Medical Care Focus - correct answer ✔✔Individual patient focus
, - personal service ethic
- diagnosis and treatment emphasis
- joint laboratory and patient involvement
- clinical sciences essential to professional training
- private sector basis
Primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Prevents illness or injury from occurring at all
Secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Minimizes the severity of the disease once it has
occurred
Tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔minimizes disability by providing medical care and
rehabilitation services
Chain of events - correct answer ✔✔agent, host, and the environment
- Prevention = interrupt the chain of causation at any step
5 core disciplines of public health - correct answer ✔✔1. Epidemiology
2. Biostatistics
3. Health Policy and Management
4. Environmental Health
5. Social and Behavioral Sciences
Epidemiology - correct answer ✔✔search for the cause of disease
identify people who are at risk
determine how to control or stop the spread or prevent it from happening again (shoe-leather
epidemiology: painstakingly collect information)
answered to pass
Public Health Definition - correct answer ✔✔The science and art of preventing disease,
prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of
society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals
James Lind - correct answer ✔✔1st clinical trial
Scurvy
Disease prevention
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔Traced cholera outbreak
Ignaz Semmelweis - correct answer ✔✔Hand washing
Peripheral fever remedy
Public Health Focuses - correct answer ✔✔Population focus
- prevention
- health emphasis
- public health ethic
- joint laboratory and field involvement
- clinical sciences peripheral to professional training
- public sector basis
Medical Care Focus - correct answer ✔✔Individual patient focus
, - personal service ethic
- diagnosis and treatment emphasis
- joint laboratory and patient involvement
- clinical sciences essential to professional training
- private sector basis
Primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Prevents illness or injury from occurring at all
Secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔Minimizes the severity of the disease once it has
occurred
Tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔minimizes disability by providing medical care and
rehabilitation services
Chain of events - correct answer ✔✔agent, host, and the environment
- Prevention = interrupt the chain of causation at any step
5 core disciplines of public health - correct answer ✔✔1. Epidemiology
2. Biostatistics
3. Health Policy and Management
4. Environmental Health
5. Social and Behavioral Sciences
Epidemiology - correct answer ✔✔search for the cause of disease
identify people who are at risk
determine how to control or stop the spread or prevent it from happening again (shoe-leather
epidemiology: painstakingly collect information)
