Public Health Exam Questions and
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assessment, policy development, assurance - ✔✔3 core functions of public health
defined by the Institute of Medicine in its 2008 report entitled "the future of public
health"
emergency preparedness - ✔✔not a 20th century top 10 public health achievement cited
by CDC
human behavior, environment, government - ✔✔best description of public health
its inclusion of a complete state of "social wellbeing" - ✔✔part of WHO definition of
public health that generates criticism due to its broad and comprehensive nature
pap smear, blood test, colonoscopy, blood pressure - ✔✔clinical prevention services
provided by people such as physicians and nurses
biomedical and medical advances and technological interventions considerations -
✔✔not a significant social determinant of the nations public health orientation
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,decentralized - ✔✔most common form or model of local health departments in US-but
not most effective
quarantine - ✔✔introduced in the middle ages to combat pestilence and remains
preventative today
cryptosporidium - ✔✔reported in Schneiders text that constituted an outbreak of
"intestina; flu" in Milwaukee water supply in 1993 and caused 400000 people to become
sick and people out of school and work
restricts local government authorities in areas not specifically given to them by their
respective state - ✔✔best describes the intent of dillons rule
sensitivity to and awareness of the role of the media/press are NOT important - ✔✔not
a theme of "the enemy of the people"
-standing up is not always popular
-one should have a scientific basis to back up proposed public health actions
-doing what is right for public health may carry undesired economic implications -
✔✔themes of an enemy of the people
police powers - ✔✔the power of state government to enforce laws to preserve and
protect the health and welfare of the public- even when such laws restrict individual
freedoms
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, World Health Organization - ✔✔defines health as "a complete state of physical mental,
and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infermary
10th ammendment - ✔✔reserves powers to the states when they have not been given to
federal government
On Airs, Waters, and Places - ✔✔well known text by hippocrates that analyzes
environmental determinants of health and divided diseases
emergency preparedness - ✔✔best discribes the responsibility assumed by public health
largely due to 9/11 and the many hurricanes
immunizing - ✔✔not commonly associated with the role of a public healthadministrator
or manager according to Novick and Morrows Public Health Administration
bacteriological era - ✔✔period in history of public health that occured in the latter part
of the 1800s and early 1900s marked by major scientifc advances and new era for fields
of public health and medicine
Obama - ✔✔most closely associated with the Affordable Care Act
communitarianism - ✔✔ethical theory most closely associated with or guiding public
health actions and decisions, particularly given its "population" focus
underlying forces that are at work in the subsequent development of disease - ✔✔best
describes/defines the detrminants of health
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assessment, policy development, assurance - ✔✔3 core functions of public health
defined by the Institute of Medicine in its 2008 report entitled "the future of public
health"
emergency preparedness - ✔✔not a 20th century top 10 public health achievement cited
by CDC
human behavior, environment, government - ✔✔best description of public health
its inclusion of a complete state of "social wellbeing" - ✔✔part of WHO definition of
public health that generates criticism due to its broad and comprehensive nature
pap smear, blood test, colonoscopy, blood pressure - ✔✔clinical prevention services
provided by people such as physicians and nurses
biomedical and medical advances and technological interventions considerations -
✔✔not a significant social determinant of the nations public health orientation
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,decentralized - ✔✔most common form or model of local health departments in US-but
not most effective
quarantine - ✔✔introduced in the middle ages to combat pestilence and remains
preventative today
cryptosporidium - ✔✔reported in Schneiders text that constituted an outbreak of
"intestina; flu" in Milwaukee water supply in 1993 and caused 400000 people to become
sick and people out of school and work
restricts local government authorities in areas not specifically given to them by their
respective state - ✔✔best describes the intent of dillons rule
sensitivity to and awareness of the role of the media/press are NOT important - ✔✔not
a theme of "the enemy of the people"
-standing up is not always popular
-one should have a scientific basis to back up proposed public health actions
-doing what is right for public health may carry undesired economic implications -
✔✔themes of an enemy of the people
police powers - ✔✔the power of state government to enforce laws to preserve and
protect the health and welfare of the public- even when such laws restrict individual
freedoms
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, World Health Organization - ✔✔defines health as "a complete state of physical mental,
and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infermary
10th ammendment - ✔✔reserves powers to the states when they have not been given to
federal government
On Airs, Waters, and Places - ✔✔well known text by hippocrates that analyzes
environmental determinants of health and divided diseases
emergency preparedness - ✔✔best discribes the responsibility assumed by public health
largely due to 9/11 and the many hurricanes
immunizing - ✔✔not commonly associated with the role of a public healthadministrator
or manager according to Novick and Morrows Public Health Administration
bacteriological era - ✔✔period in history of public health that occured in the latter part
of the 1800s and early 1900s marked by major scientifc advances and new era for fields
of public health and medicine
Obama - ✔✔most closely associated with the Affordable Care Act
communitarianism - ✔✔ethical theory most closely associated with or guiding public
health actions and decisions, particularly given its "population" focus
underlying forces that are at work in the subsequent development of disease - ✔✔best
describes/defines the detrminants of health
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