COMMUNITY HEALTH CHAPTERS #1-6
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the focus of Public Health? - Answer-1. Disease Prevention
2. Prolonging life
3. Promoting health and efficiency
What are the 5 ways we promote health and efficiency in public health? - Answer-1.
Control of communicable infection
2. Education
3. Organization of resources for early diagnosis and prevention
4. Sanitation of environment
5. Development of social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate
for the maintenance of health.
What are the core functions of PHN? - Answer-Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
How do you assess a community? - Answer-Regular collection and analysis as well as
sharing information regarding health conditions, risk, and resources within a community.
What is policy development? - Answer-Use of assessment data to develop policies and
direct resources to those policies
What is assurance? - Answer-Focuses on the availability of resources in a community
and the maintenance of those resources, including the ability of public and private
providers to respond to critical situations.
What is a population? - Answer-a group of people with similar personal or
environmental characteristics
What is a subpopulation? - Answer-Also called an aggregate, a group of people with
some common characteristics or concerns.
What is a community? - Answer-A group of people that interact with one another and
have a sense of unity based upon shared interests or characteristics that may include
geographical boundaries.
What groups do PHNs work with? - Answer-1. Individuals
2. Families
3. Groups or aggregates
4.Communities or populatations
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the focus of Public Health? - Answer-1. Disease Prevention
2. Prolonging life
3. Promoting health and efficiency
What are the 5 ways we promote health and efficiency in public health? - Answer-1.
Control of communicable infection
2. Education
3. Organization of resources for early diagnosis and prevention
4. Sanitation of environment
5. Development of social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate
for the maintenance of health.
What are the core functions of PHN? - Answer-Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
How do you assess a community? - Answer-Regular collection and analysis as well as
sharing information regarding health conditions, risk, and resources within a community.
What is policy development? - Answer-Use of assessment data to develop policies and
direct resources to those policies
What is assurance? - Answer-Focuses on the availability of resources in a community
and the maintenance of those resources, including the ability of public and private
providers to respond to critical situations.
What is a population? - Answer-a group of people with similar personal or
environmental characteristics
What is a subpopulation? - Answer-Also called an aggregate, a group of people with
some common characteristics or concerns.
What is a community? - Answer-A group of people that interact with one another and
have a sense of unity based upon shared interests or characteristics that may include
geographical boundaries.
What groups do PHNs work with? - Answer-1. Individuals
2. Families
3. Groups or aggregates
4.Communities or populatations
