COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH: FINAL EXAM 127 ACTUAL QUIZ & CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH: FINAL EXAM 127
ACTUAL QUIZ & CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS


1. Mission of Public Health: The fulfillment of society's interest in assuring the
conditions in which people can be healthy

1. Prevent Disease/Injury
2. Promote Health
2. Core Functions (Wheel): 1. Assessment
-Monitor Health
-Diagnose & Investigate

2. Policy Development
-Inform, Educate, Empower
-Mobilize Community Partnerships
-Develop Policies

3. Assurance
-Enforce Laws
-Link to/ Provide Care
-Assure Competent Workforce
-Evaluate
3. Core Functions: Highway Pollution Example: 1. Assessment
-Measure car exhaust
-Measure asthma rates

2. Policy Development
-Educate residents, officials
-Mobilize partnerships to demand action
-Change emission regulation.

3. Assurance
-Enforce emission regulation
-Link residents to asthma care
-Train health providers to ask/treat
-Evaluate asthma rates over time (city vs. rural)
4. Epidemiology: the study of the determinants and distribution of disease
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, 5. Ecological Model: Considering individual behavior in the context of the social
environment:
1. Interpersonal, organizational, community, public policy levels




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