FNDH 600 Quizzes up to Exam 1 | 100% Correct | Verified | 2024 Version

Mostly due to public health efforts, life expectancy increased from 1900 until the end of the 20th Century by about _______ years - 30 years T or F: The determinants of Health consist mainly of genetics (family history) and personal choices, which suggests that public health efforts should focus mainly each individual personal choices. - False This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has 14,000 employees working in 40 countries, and a budget of more than $10 billion, including about $1 billion for health promotion programs. Their mission is "to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability." - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The 3 major functions or core functions of public health include: - Assurance, policy development, & assessment In the USA in 1900, one of the top three causes of death was: - Tuberculosis (or consumption) The level of prevention that involves early detection of the potential for development of a disease or condition is called: - Primary prevention "The history of public health might well be written as a record of successive re-definings of the ____________________." - Unacceptable Which of these is something a public health professional is least likely to do in their profession? - Conduct phase I clinical trials for a new medication If recent trends continue with US birth demographics and poverty among children, which of these is most likely: - The proportion of people living in poverty will increaseWhich of the following public health organizations was instrumental in helping thousands of farmers to reclaim fertile river land for growing crops and simultaneously to prevent river blindness? - World Health Organization Epidemiology - The study of the distribution and determinants of disease or health status in a population