PUBH 201 Midterm Review
Health - correct answer ✔✔state of complete, physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Global Health - correct answer ✔✔the collaborative actions taken to identify and address transnational
concerns about the exposures and diseases that adversely affect human populations
Etiology - correct answer ✔✔study of the social and behavioral, environmental, biological, and other
causes of disease. The developmental pathway for a disease or disease process
Medicine - correct answer ✔✔focuses on preventing, diagnosing, and treating health problems in
individuals and families
Public Health model - correct answer ✔✔all about community-based solutions and working with the
community
Intervention - correct answer ✔✔strategic action intended to improve individual and population health
status
Prevention sciene - correct answer ✔✔study of which preventive health interventions are effective in
various populations, how successful the interventions are, and how well they can be scaled up for
widespread implementation
Prioritization Strategies - correct answer ✔✔the priorities identified by groups viewing global health
with different lenses (perspectives) provide insight into the common health challenges of populations
around the world and point towards solutions for shared concerns
Best buys - correct answer ✔✔low-cost primary prevention activities are usually the most cost-effective
interventions
(Clean syringes is cheaper than treating HIV)
, Vital Statistics - correct answer ✔✔population-level metrics about births, deaths, and other life events
Life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔at birth is the median expected age at death of all babies born alive
Health life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔number of years the average individual born into the
population can expect to live without disability
Morbidity - correct answer ✔✔the presence of illness or disease, whether that disease is relatively mild,
like the common cold, or quite sever
Mortality - correct answer ✔✔death
Incidence - correct answer ✔✔the number of new cases of the disease occurring in a time period
divided by the total number of people at risk for that disease in that time period
Prevalence - correct answer ✔✔the number of total existing cases, whether newly-diagnosed or long-
established, divided by total number of people in the population at the time the prevalence is measured
"End of 2017"
Years of life lost - correct answer ✔✔the burden from premature mortality in a population
Years Lived with Disability - correct answer ✔✔the burden to a population from nonfatal health
conditions that cause significant short- or long-term reduction in health status
Disability-adjusted life year - correct answer ✔✔the total burden of disease in a population from both
premature deaths and disability
Social economic status - correct answer ✔✔individual's standing in a society based on individual and
household income, education, gender, occupation, ethnicity and race, and other characteristics that exist
within a broader cultural, social, political, and policy environment
Health - correct answer ✔✔state of complete, physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Global Health - correct answer ✔✔the collaborative actions taken to identify and address transnational
concerns about the exposures and diseases that adversely affect human populations
Etiology - correct answer ✔✔study of the social and behavioral, environmental, biological, and other
causes of disease. The developmental pathway for a disease or disease process
Medicine - correct answer ✔✔focuses on preventing, diagnosing, and treating health problems in
individuals and families
Public Health model - correct answer ✔✔all about community-based solutions and working with the
community
Intervention - correct answer ✔✔strategic action intended to improve individual and population health
status
Prevention sciene - correct answer ✔✔study of which preventive health interventions are effective in
various populations, how successful the interventions are, and how well they can be scaled up for
widespread implementation
Prioritization Strategies - correct answer ✔✔the priorities identified by groups viewing global health
with different lenses (perspectives) provide insight into the common health challenges of populations
around the world and point towards solutions for shared concerns
Best buys - correct answer ✔✔low-cost primary prevention activities are usually the most cost-effective
interventions
(Clean syringes is cheaper than treating HIV)
, Vital Statistics - correct answer ✔✔population-level metrics about births, deaths, and other life events
Life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔at birth is the median expected age at death of all babies born alive
Health life expectancy - correct answer ✔✔number of years the average individual born into the
population can expect to live without disability
Morbidity - correct answer ✔✔the presence of illness or disease, whether that disease is relatively mild,
like the common cold, or quite sever
Mortality - correct answer ✔✔death
Incidence - correct answer ✔✔the number of new cases of the disease occurring in a time period
divided by the total number of people at risk for that disease in that time period
Prevalence - correct answer ✔✔the number of total existing cases, whether newly-diagnosed or long-
established, divided by total number of people in the population at the time the prevalence is measured
"End of 2017"
Years of life lost - correct answer ✔✔the burden from premature mortality in a population
Years Lived with Disability - correct answer ✔✔the burden to a population from nonfatal health
conditions that cause significant short- or long-term reduction in health status
Disability-adjusted life year - correct answer ✔✔the total burden of disease in a population from both
premature deaths and disability
Social economic status - correct answer ✔✔individual's standing in a society based on individual and
household income, education, gender, occupation, ethnicity and race, and other characteristics that exist
within a broader cultural, social, political, and policy environment
