CHLH 469 Exam 1 questions with
complete solutions
Ten Great public health achievements 1900-1999 - correct answer ✔✔vaccinations, motor-vehicle safety,
safer workplaces, control of infectious diseases, decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and
stroke, safer and healthier food, healthier mothers and babies, family planning and contraceptive
services, fluoridation of drinking water, recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
Ten Great Public Health Achievements 2001-2010 - correct answer ✔✔vaccine-preventable disease,
prevention and control of infectious diseases, tobacco control, maternal and infant health, motor vehicle
safety, cardiovascular disease prevention, occupational safety, cancer prevention, childhood lead
poisoning, public health preparedness and response
Public health - correct answer ✔✔public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the
conditions in which people can be healthy. This requires that continuing and emerging threats to the
health of the public be successfully countered
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔averting the occurrence of disease
Secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔early detection and intervention to reverse or retard progress
Tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔includes efforts to minimize the effects of disease and disability
Uniqueness of public health - correct answer ✔✔basis in social justice philosophy, inherently political
nature, dynamic, ever-expanding agenda, link with government, grounding in sciences, use of prevention
as a prime strategy, uncommon culture and bond
population - correct answer ✔✔overpopulation in developing nations is leading to humans exceeding
the carrying capacity of the planet (urban crowding)
pollution - correct answer ✔✔combustion of fossil fuels that disperse greenhouse gases into
atmosphere may cause global warming and change in distribution of insect vectors
, poverty - correct answer ✔✔linked to overpopulation and is a determinant of adverse health outcomes,
a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs including food, safe drinking
water, sanitation facilities, health shelter, education and information
absolute poverty - correct answer ✔✔certain income amount based on estimated value of a "basket of
goods" (food, shelter, water, etc.) necessary for proper living, world bank: poverty is $2 a day or less, in
the US it is set at $26.19 per day
population dynamics - correct answer ✔✔refers to ever changing interrelationships among the set of
variables that influence the demographic makeup of populations as well as the variables that influence
the growth and decline of population sizes
fertility trends - correct answer ✔✔-us, canada, japan, south korea, thailand, china and many European
countries are at or below the replacement rate for fertility
-many asian, latin american and african countries have a fertility rate of 4.0 births per woman
demographic transition - correct answer ✔✔refers to alternations over time in a population's fertility,
mortality, and make up (developed societies have gone through 3 stages that have affected their sex
distributions)
epidemiologic transition - correct answer ✔✔describes a shift in the pattern of morbidity and mortality
from causes related primarily to infectious and communicable diseases to causes associated with chronic
degenerative diseases
carrying capacity - correct answer ✔✔the population that an area will support without undergoing
environmental deterioration
environment - correct answer ✔✔the complex of physical , chemical, biotic factors (as climate, soil, and
living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form
and survival
Ecological model - correct answer ✔✔proposes that the determinants of health (environmental,
biological, and behavioral) interact and are interlinked over the life course of individuals
complete solutions
Ten Great public health achievements 1900-1999 - correct answer ✔✔vaccinations, motor-vehicle safety,
safer workplaces, control of infectious diseases, decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and
stroke, safer and healthier food, healthier mothers and babies, family planning and contraceptive
services, fluoridation of drinking water, recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
Ten Great Public Health Achievements 2001-2010 - correct answer ✔✔vaccine-preventable disease,
prevention and control of infectious diseases, tobacco control, maternal and infant health, motor vehicle
safety, cardiovascular disease prevention, occupational safety, cancer prevention, childhood lead
poisoning, public health preparedness and response
Public health - correct answer ✔✔public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the
conditions in which people can be healthy. This requires that continuing and emerging threats to the
health of the public be successfully countered
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔averting the occurrence of disease
Secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔early detection and intervention to reverse or retard progress
Tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔includes efforts to minimize the effects of disease and disability
Uniqueness of public health - correct answer ✔✔basis in social justice philosophy, inherently political
nature, dynamic, ever-expanding agenda, link with government, grounding in sciences, use of prevention
as a prime strategy, uncommon culture and bond
population - correct answer ✔✔overpopulation in developing nations is leading to humans exceeding
the carrying capacity of the planet (urban crowding)
pollution - correct answer ✔✔combustion of fossil fuels that disperse greenhouse gases into
atmosphere may cause global warming and change in distribution of insect vectors
, poverty - correct answer ✔✔linked to overpopulation and is a determinant of adverse health outcomes,
a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs including food, safe drinking
water, sanitation facilities, health shelter, education and information
absolute poverty - correct answer ✔✔certain income amount based on estimated value of a "basket of
goods" (food, shelter, water, etc.) necessary for proper living, world bank: poverty is $2 a day or less, in
the US it is set at $26.19 per day
population dynamics - correct answer ✔✔refers to ever changing interrelationships among the set of
variables that influence the demographic makeup of populations as well as the variables that influence
the growth and decline of population sizes
fertility trends - correct answer ✔✔-us, canada, japan, south korea, thailand, china and many European
countries are at or below the replacement rate for fertility
-many asian, latin american and african countries have a fertility rate of 4.0 births per woman
demographic transition - correct answer ✔✔refers to alternations over time in a population's fertility,
mortality, and make up (developed societies have gone through 3 stages that have affected their sex
distributions)
epidemiologic transition - correct answer ✔✔describes a shift in the pattern of morbidity and mortality
from causes related primarily to infectious and communicable diseases to causes associated with chronic
degenerative diseases
carrying capacity - correct answer ✔✔the population that an area will support without undergoing
environmental deterioration
environment - correct answer ✔✔the complex of physical , chemical, biotic factors (as climate, soil, and
living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form
and survival
Ecological model - correct answer ✔✔proposes that the determinants of health (environmental,
biological, and behavioral) interact and are interlinked over the life course of individuals
