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1. What is the mission of Public health is the fulfillment of societies interest in
public health? assuring the conditions can be healthy.
2. Describe the assess- The assessment function of public health consti-
ment function of public tutes the diagnostic function in which public health
health. agencies collects, assembles, analyzes, and makes
available information on health and population.
3. Who does medicaid It serves medical services to elligible low income
serve? populations.
4. A non governmental an organization that is neither part of a government
agency is... nor a conventional for profit business.
5. A __________ fac- Risk.
tor increases people's
chances of contracting
a disease.
6. What is epidemiology? The study of distribution and determinants of dis-
ease frequency in human populations.
7. What are the three ma- Intervention, cohort, and case control.
jor types of epidemio-
logical studies?
8. Describe a retrospec- Studies that look into the past for causes of diseases
tive study. from which people currently suffer.
9. A relationship in which Cause and effect relationship.
one occurrence always
happens in response
to the presence of the
other is called...
10. A selection bias and Yes.
error due to systemat-
ic patterns is charac-
teristics between those
who are selected for
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study and those who
are not?
11. Vaccination not only Yes.
keeps an individual
from developing a dis-
ease but also makes
it harder for the
pathogen to be trans-
mitted?
12. Why did small pox de- Native peoples had no immunity to the disease.
stroy the Native Ameri-
can populations?
13. Why AZT so signifi- Interfered with the replication of HIV by inhibiting the
cant? enzyme that copies viral RNA into the cell's DNA.
14. Which of the follow- It may be more difficult to treat and the mortality rate
ing explains why mul- is much higher.
ti drug resistance is
problematic?
15. Why was prohibition so It had mixed results combining success and failure
important in US histo- in a complex way, and it was the first time the
ry? government took a regulatory approach to ban a
substance.
16. If public health primari- Downstream.
ly focuses on upstream
efforts, then medicine
is primarily focused on
____________ efforts.
17. Primary preventions at social environment.
the individual level fo-
cuses on altering expo-
sures or behaviors. Pri-
mary prevention at the
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