WGU D402 - Community and Public Health 2026/2027
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Q: What were the original goals of community and public health? - correct answer-A: Stop
the spread of disease and improve sanitation; over time, expanded to prevention,
education, and helping populations live healthier.
Q: How did historical events shape modern public health goals? - correct answer-A:
Discoveries like germs, vaccines, and improved sanitation led to preventing illness, using
research to guide care, and promoting health equity.
Q: Germ Theory of Disease - correct answer-A: Idea that germs cause disease by spreading
between people or contaminated things.
Q: Pasteurization - correct answer-A: Heating food to kill bacteria while keeping nutrients.
Q: Vaccine - correct answer-A: Substance (injection/oral/nasal) that builds immunity to
disease.
Q: Shattuck Report - correct answer-A: 1850 report showing poor sanitation caused disease;
emphasized tracking health data.
Q: Evidence-Based Medicine - correct answer-A: Treatment based on the best available
research.
Q: Penicillin - correct answer-A: First antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 to
treat bacterial infections.
Q: Define community health. - correct answer-A: Improving health within a specific group or
location (town, school district).
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Q: Define public health. - correct answer-A: Protecting and improving health across larger
populations via policies, prevention, and education.
Q: Similarities and differences between community and public health. - correct answer-A:
Both focus on prevention and quality of life. Community health is local; public health is
larger scale, often government-driven.
Q: Community Health Assessment - correct answer-A: Gathering and analyzing data to
determine what a community needs to be healthier.
Q: Community and public health goals - correct answer-A: Prevent disease, promote healthy
habits, reduce health disparities between groups.
Q: Why is community health important to public health? - correct answer-A: Healthy
communities build a strong foundation for overall population health.
Q: Mortality - correct answer-A: Death rate in a population.
Q: Morbidity - correct answer-A: How often illness/disease occurs in a population.
Q: Health Determinants - correct answer-A: Factors influencing health, like income,
education, environment.
Q: Intervention - correct answer-A: Action taken to improve health or prevent illness.
Q: Importance of PRECEDE-PROCEED model - correct answer-A: Guides planning,
implementing, and evaluating health programs; focuses on understanding health behavior
influences first.
Q: Importance of socio-ecological model - correct answer-A: Health is influenced by personal
choices, relationships, community, and policies.