PUBH 302 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
Difference between qualitative & quantitative methods - Answer--qualitative: text based,
deep info, inductive, potentially valid & reliable
-quantitative: number based, broad info, deductive, potentially valid & reliable
Qualitative methods - Answer-interviews, focus groups, case studies, content analysis
Why qualitative methods are used - Answer-needs & assets assessments, learning
about priority populations, evaluating programs & prevention strategies
Health promotion - Answer-a mediating strategy between people & their environment,
educational & environmental supports
How are health promotion & health education related? - Answer-both utilize a combo of
approaches, are well planned, target behavior & focus on health, QofL & well-being
Program - Answer-an intervention thought of as treatment that must be well planned to
target an exposed group
Health promotion by level - Answer--individual: knowledge, attitude, beliefs, skills, self-
efficacy
-interpersonal: social support systems, social norms, social networks
-institutional: organizational, rules, regulations
-community: relationships between organizations, groups, physical environment
-public policy: laws & policies at the local, state, or national level
Assumptions of community-based health promotion - Answer-comprehensive, long-term
approach, strive to change behavior, involves all levels, must include community
members at all steps
What health promoters do - Answer-conduct assessments, identify health problems,
plan programs, evaluate programs, advocate, develop campaigns, conduct research
Reasons for the decline in heart disease rates since the 70s - Answer-decreased
tobacco use, access to trauma centers, better cardiac care centers
Public health problem or determinant? - Answer--few parks: determinant
-marijuana viewed as acceptable: determinant
, -colon cancer: problem
-medicaid policies: determinant
-experiencing abuse: determinant
-food waste: determinant
-suicide: problem
-diabetes: problem
Framingham Heart Study - Answer-led to identification of the major CVD risk factors
-high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, smoking, high blood cholesterol
Relative risk - Answer-the higher, the stronger the relationship
-a smoker has a higher chance of getting lung cancer than a non-smoker
McGinnis study - Answer--we have power over health outcomes to change them
-health outcomes are modifiable
-nearly half of all deaths were linked to behavioral & other preventable causes
-reasons smoking has gone down: taxes, change in social norms, age limits, can't
smoke inside
Requirements for survival - Answer-air, water, food, care, shelter
Sustainable model - Answer-intersection of environmental, social & economic
Pandemic flu - Answer-a novel virus emerges from animal to human & then passed to
another human, happens every few centuries
Escape fire - Answer--paying more, getting less: we pay more in overall gdp but our life
expectancy is less
-treating the whole person
-preventing disease: we don't focus enough of prevention, men bettering their health to
prevent prostate cancer & their telomeres grew
-overmedication: pill for every ill mentality, US uses more drugs than any other country
& is one of the only to supply drugs to consumer
-over-treatment
-an entrenched system
-reimbursement: highly compensated services; patient at the cleveland clinic needed to
change her lifestyle but the dr kept putting a stint in
How do we achieve universal coverage without being a single payer? - Answer-
increasing competition- more hospitals & insurance companies
Public health - Answer-protecting, promoting & preventing disease of the population
"Ps" of public health - Answer--prevention: to stop or minimize the spread (vaccinations)
-protection: taking steps to minimize the spread (wearing masks)
AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
Difference between qualitative & quantitative methods - Answer--qualitative: text based,
deep info, inductive, potentially valid & reliable
-quantitative: number based, broad info, deductive, potentially valid & reliable
Qualitative methods - Answer-interviews, focus groups, case studies, content analysis
Why qualitative methods are used - Answer-needs & assets assessments, learning
about priority populations, evaluating programs & prevention strategies
Health promotion - Answer-a mediating strategy between people & their environment,
educational & environmental supports
How are health promotion & health education related? - Answer-both utilize a combo of
approaches, are well planned, target behavior & focus on health, QofL & well-being
Program - Answer-an intervention thought of as treatment that must be well planned to
target an exposed group
Health promotion by level - Answer--individual: knowledge, attitude, beliefs, skills, self-
efficacy
-interpersonal: social support systems, social norms, social networks
-institutional: organizational, rules, regulations
-community: relationships between organizations, groups, physical environment
-public policy: laws & policies at the local, state, or national level
Assumptions of community-based health promotion - Answer-comprehensive, long-term
approach, strive to change behavior, involves all levels, must include community
members at all steps
What health promoters do - Answer-conduct assessments, identify health problems,
plan programs, evaluate programs, advocate, develop campaigns, conduct research
Reasons for the decline in heart disease rates since the 70s - Answer-decreased
tobacco use, access to trauma centers, better cardiac care centers
Public health problem or determinant? - Answer--few parks: determinant
-marijuana viewed as acceptable: determinant
, -colon cancer: problem
-medicaid policies: determinant
-experiencing abuse: determinant
-food waste: determinant
-suicide: problem
-diabetes: problem
Framingham Heart Study - Answer-led to identification of the major CVD risk factors
-high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, smoking, high blood cholesterol
Relative risk - Answer-the higher, the stronger the relationship
-a smoker has a higher chance of getting lung cancer than a non-smoker
McGinnis study - Answer--we have power over health outcomes to change them
-health outcomes are modifiable
-nearly half of all deaths were linked to behavioral & other preventable causes
-reasons smoking has gone down: taxes, change in social norms, age limits, can't
smoke inside
Requirements for survival - Answer-air, water, food, care, shelter
Sustainable model - Answer-intersection of environmental, social & economic
Pandemic flu - Answer-a novel virus emerges from animal to human & then passed to
another human, happens every few centuries
Escape fire - Answer--paying more, getting less: we pay more in overall gdp but our life
expectancy is less
-treating the whole person
-preventing disease: we don't focus enough of prevention, men bettering their health to
prevent prostate cancer & their telomeres grew
-overmedication: pill for every ill mentality, US uses more drugs than any other country
& is one of the only to supply drugs to consumer
-over-treatment
-an entrenched system
-reimbursement: highly compensated services; patient at the cleveland clinic needed to
change her lifestyle but the dr kept putting a stint in
How do we achieve universal coverage without being a single payer? - Answer-
increasing competition- more hospitals & insurance companies
Public health - Answer-protecting, promoting & preventing disease of the population
"Ps" of public health - Answer--prevention: to stop or minimize the spread (vaccinations)
-protection: taking steps to minimize the spread (wearing masks)
