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SCN 195 - correct answer ✔✔TEST I
Focus of Public Health in U.S until 1950s - correct answer ✔✔the control of infectious diseases
1970's Public Health Focus - correct answer ✔✔recognized that health promotion efforts have
great potential for reducing morbidity, saving lives, and reducing costs
- The visibility of health education/promotion began to increase
Dimensions of Health - correct answer ✔✔physical, social, intellectual, emotional, spiritual,
environmental
Wellness - correct answer ✔✔Focusing on balancing on the dimension
Mortality Rate - correct answer ✔✔-Death rate per hundred thousand
-number of deaths from a disease in relation to the population in a given time
Social Determinants of Health - correct answer ✔✔The conditions in which people are born,
grow, live, work.
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Prevent illness before it happens
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Early diagnosis and prompt treatment of a disease
or illness to limit the impact of the disease
, Tertiary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔includes retraining, reeducation, and rehabilitation of
an individual who has incurred disability or impairment( treatment)
Focus of Health Promotion - correct answer ✔✔Modify the risk factors
Epidemiology - correct answer ✔✔study of distribution and determinants of health-related
states or events in specific populations, and the application of this study to control health
problems
Cultural Competency - correct answer ✔✔developmental process defined as a set of values,
principles, behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable health professionals to work effectively
across, ethnic racial, ethnic and linguistically diverse population
Early Humans learned by... - correct answer ✔✔Observation and trial
India 4000BC - correct answer ✔✔Públic sanitation with bathrooms and drains
Greek father of medicine - correct answer ✔✔Hippocrates
Recognized the relationship between health and living conditions/social status
Caduceus - correct answer ✔✔staff and serpent of the physician, was a symbol of the temples
of Asclepius
Roman Public Health - correct answer ✔✔first to build hospitals
Renaissance surgeons - correct answer ✔✔