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Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health and safety of people and their
communities. Choose the work public health professionals carry out to do this from the list below:
✔Correct Answer-Participate in policy making
Educate the public and promote healthy lifestyles
Research disease and injury prevention
Work to limit health disparities
There are many ways to define heath. How does the World Health Organization define health?
✔Correct Answer-A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Public health and clinical care both require knowledge of medicine and health, but they both focus
on different aspects of ensuring the health and safety of populations. Public health professionals
focus on the bio-science of health and work to heal the individual. Clinical professionals, on the other
hand, work at the community level to prevent health problems from happening or recurring.
✔Correct Answer-False---
Public health and clinical care both require knowledge of medicine and health, but they both focus
on different aspects of ensuring the health and safety of populations.
Public health professionals treat the community and work to prevent health problems from
happening or recurring
Clinical professionals treat the individual and focus primarily on treating individuals after they
become sick or injured
Public health professionals address health problems in a systematic way. This process involves five
steps. The steps are listed below. Put them in order from the first step to the last step. ✔Correct
Answer-step one: define the health problem
step two: identify the risk factors associated with the problem
step three: develop and test community level interventions to control or prevent the cause of the
problem
step four: implement interventions to improve the health of the population
step five: monitor those interventions to assess their effectiveness
The science of public health requires input from six disciplines to successfully carry out efforts to
ensure the health and safety of a population. Which two disciplines are missing from the following
list?
Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Health management and policy
Environmental health ✔Correct Answer-social and behavioral health and biosciences
The main task of prevention is to develop interventions designed to prevent health issues identified
in the assessment process. One approach to developing an intervention is addressing the health
issue at three levels of prevention. Match the focus of an intervention with the level of prevention
below: ✔Correct Answer-primary prevention: prevents exposure to risk factors
secondary prevention: minimizes severity of impact if exposed to risk factor
tertiary prevention: provides medical care and rehab services
, Scientists know certain factors determine a person's state of health. Which of the health
determinants has the biggest impact on a person's health? ✔Correct Answer-social determinants
The three core functions of public health include assessment of health issues, development of
policies to address health issues, and assurance the programs and policies are addressing those
health issues. The ten essential services of public health are services which fall under one of the
three core functions. Match each of the ten services with the core public health function under
which it falls ✔Correct Answer-assessment: monitor health status, collect, analyze, and make
available information
policy development: inform, educate, and empower people about health issues, mobilize community
partnerships, develop policies and plans
assurance: enforce laws that protect health and ensure safety, link people to care, assure a
competent workforce, evaluate care, and research
Information on mortality patterns is key to understanding changes in the health and well-being of the
US population. Differences in death rates among various demographic subpopulations, including race
and ethnicity groups, may reflect subpopulation differences in factors such as socioeconomic status,
access to medical care, and the prevalence of specific risk factors in a particular subpopulation (true
or false) ✔Correct Answer-true
What were the top three leading causes of death for Americans in 2017? ✔Correct Answer-
unintentional injuries, cancer, and heart disease
The ____________________ is the most dangerous animal in the world. This animal transmits deadly
diseases like malaria, dengue fever, and encephalitis to humans. ✔Correct Answer-mosquitoes
Infectious diseases began to decline at the beginning of the 20th century. There were many medical
and public health advances during this time that were key to this decline. Choose three: ✔Correct
Answer-improved nutrition, introduction of antibiotics, and pasteurization of milk
bacteria ✔Correct Answer-single celled organisms that can survive and reproduce without a host
viruses ✔Correct Answer-organisms without a cellular structure and cannot survive or reproduce
without an animal or plant cell
parasites ✔Correct Answer-organisms that live on or in a host and gets its food from or at the
expense of its host
Diseases continue to threaten humans today. They are proving to be unpredictable and new disease
are a growing threat. The Institute of Medicine has conducted studies and found most of the
emerging infectious disease events have been caused by pathogens spread in what way: ✔Correct
Answer-zootonic - pathogens spread from animals to humans
The chain of infection is used to describe a pattern by which an infectious disease is transmitted from
person to person. Match the following details with the correct link in the chain ✔Correct Answer-
bacteria, viruses, and parasites: pathogen
people,water,soil, animals: reservoir
bodily fluids including blood, urine, semen, saliva: points of exit
direct or indirect contact with an infected person, ingestion, and inhalation: method of transmission
respiratory tract, mucous membranes (nose, eyes, mouth), and broken skin: point of entry