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PUBH 302 Exam 1 Galloway|
Comprehensive Questions & Answers
2026
Roles of local health agencies - correct-answer - responsibilities vary depending on
locality and are responsible for implementing and enforcing local, state and
federal public health codes and ordinances and providing essential public health
programs to a community.
primary focus is the health of the citizens
Roles of state health agencies - correct-answer - ○ Health roles and duties often
scattered among dozens of agencies
○ Free-standing, unit, or larger health and human services agency
○ State health agencies such as health departments and human service agencies
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Roles of federal health agencies - correct-answer - ○ Ensure all levels of
government have the capabilities to provide essential PH services
○ Act when threats span more than one state, a region, a nation
○ Act where solutions may be beyond jurisdiction of individual states
○ Assist states when they lack expertise or resources
○ Facilitate the formulation of PH goals
Health Departments: Decentralized (local) - correct-answer - relate primarily to
local government although may also report to state health agency, led by local
government who make fiscal decisions
Health Departments: Centralized (state) - correct-answer - a unit of state health
agency, state government makes fiscal
decisions
-***SC is centralized (DHEC = low cost birth control (hold title 10))***
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Health Departments: Mixed - correct-answer - Some local health departments are
state and some local (no one
arrangement dominates)
Health Departments: Shared - correct-answer - all local health departments are
governed by both state and local
authorities
how has public health extended life expectancy? - correct-answer - ●
**Assessment: monitor health, diagnose & investigate**
● ** Policy Development: inform, educate, empower, mobilize community
partnerships, develop policies**
● **Assurance: enforce laws, provide care, assure competent workforce,
evaluate***
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Health Equity (Dr. Benjamin's essay) - correct-answer - ***ensuring everyone has
what fits THEIR needs (bicycle ex)***
Social Justice (Dr. Benjamin's essay) - correct-answer - ● overall fairness of a
society in how it divides and distributes
rewards and burdens(collective responsibility, basic rights). ○ ***Goal: everyone
has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health***
○ ***Create conditions that give everyone the opportunity to reach their best***
health
○ ***Valuing all individuals and populations equally***
***COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY***
○ ***Address inequities in the conditions in which people are born, grow, live,
work, learn, age ***
Epidemiology definition - correct-answer - ● ***"... the study of the distribution
and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and
the application of this study to control health problems"**
PUBH 302 Exam 1 Galloway|
Comprehensive Questions & Answers
2026
Roles of local health agencies - correct-answer - responsibilities vary depending on
locality and are responsible for implementing and enforcing local, state and
federal public health codes and ordinances and providing essential public health
programs to a community.
primary focus is the health of the citizens
Roles of state health agencies - correct-answer - ○ Health roles and duties often
scattered among dozens of agencies
○ Free-standing, unit, or larger health and human services agency
○ State health agencies such as health departments and human service agencies
,2|Page
Roles of federal health agencies - correct-answer - ○ Ensure all levels of
government have the capabilities to provide essential PH services
○ Act when threats span more than one state, a region, a nation
○ Act where solutions may be beyond jurisdiction of individual states
○ Assist states when they lack expertise or resources
○ Facilitate the formulation of PH goals
Health Departments: Decentralized (local) - correct-answer - relate primarily to
local government although may also report to state health agency, led by local
government who make fiscal decisions
Health Departments: Centralized (state) - correct-answer - a unit of state health
agency, state government makes fiscal
decisions
-***SC is centralized (DHEC = low cost birth control (hold title 10))***
,3|Page
Health Departments: Mixed - correct-answer - Some local health departments are
state and some local (no one
arrangement dominates)
Health Departments: Shared - correct-answer - all local health departments are
governed by both state and local
authorities
how has public health extended life expectancy? - correct-answer - ●
**Assessment: monitor health, diagnose & investigate**
● ** Policy Development: inform, educate, empower, mobilize community
partnerships, develop policies**
● **Assurance: enforce laws, provide care, assure competent workforce,
evaluate***
, 4|Page
Health Equity (Dr. Benjamin's essay) - correct-answer - ***ensuring everyone has
what fits THEIR needs (bicycle ex)***
Social Justice (Dr. Benjamin's essay) - correct-answer - ● overall fairness of a
society in how it divides and distributes
rewards and burdens(collective responsibility, basic rights). ○ ***Goal: everyone
has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health***
○ ***Create conditions that give everyone the opportunity to reach their best***
health
○ ***Valuing all individuals and populations equally***
***COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY***
○ ***Address inequities in the conditions in which people are born, grow, live,
work, learn, age ***
Epidemiology definition - correct-answer - ● ***"... the study of the distribution
and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and
the application of this study to control health problems"**
