PBHL-P 109 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Who steps in if the county cannot provide public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The state (originally
the states job but for indiana, we are a home rule state which leaves it to the county)
6 pillars of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, social and
behavior, environmental, informatics
What is public health? (Definition) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what we as a society do collectively to
assure the conditions in which people can be healthy
What is the vision of public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅healthy people in healthy communities
What is the mission of public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prevent Disease, Injury, and Disability
Public health greatest achievements - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Vaccinations, fluoridation of water, motor
vehicle safety, etc.
Descriptive epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Characterize the amount and distribution of disease
or events within a population
analytical epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Examines the causal hypothesis regardless of the
association between exposures and outcomes
What are the 3 core functions of public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅assessment, policy
development, assurance
quarantine definition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅used to separate and restrict the movement of well
persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill
Isolation definition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅used to separate ill persons who have a communicable
disease from those who are healthy
, Public Health Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the systematic collection, analysis, interpretation,
and dissemination of health data to gain knowledge of the pattern of disease occurrence in order to
control and prevent disease in the community.
Invisible seeds - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Fracastoro (1500s) said that disease was transmitted person to
person (germs)
Ignatz Semmelweiss (1841) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Discovered good hand washing. He observed that
doctors went directly from conducting autopsies on moms that died from childbed fever into the
delivery room
Robert Koch (1843-1910) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Established Koch's postulates - a sequence of
experimental steps that verified the germ theory. Injected mice with blood from sick cattle. Proof of
microorganisms causing infections and disease
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Invented the microscope
What is the difference between public health and population health? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅population health specifically includes the healthcare delivery system which is often seen
as separate or in direct opposition to public health
What is population health? (Definition) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the health outcomes of a group of
individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group
What are vital statistics? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅quantitative data concerning a population, such as the
number of births, marriages, and deaths.
Commmunity health assessments - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Assessments, identify key health needs and
issues through systematic, comprehensive data collection and analysis
sentinel surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅system is used when high-quality data are needed about a
particular disease that cannot be obtained through a passive system (influenza)
Who steps in if the county cannot provide public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The state (originally
the states job but for indiana, we are a home rule state which leaves it to the county)
6 pillars of public health - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, social and
behavior, environmental, informatics
What is public health? (Definition) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅what we as a society do collectively to
assure the conditions in which people can be healthy
What is the vision of public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅healthy people in healthy communities
What is the mission of public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prevent Disease, Injury, and Disability
Public health greatest achievements - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Vaccinations, fluoridation of water, motor
vehicle safety, etc.
Descriptive epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Characterize the amount and distribution of disease
or events within a population
analytical epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Examines the causal hypothesis regardless of the
association between exposures and outcomes
What are the 3 core functions of public health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅assessment, policy
development, assurance
quarantine definition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅used to separate and restrict the movement of well
persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill
Isolation definition - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅used to separate ill persons who have a communicable
disease from those who are healthy
, Public Health Surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the systematic collection, analysis, interpretation,
and dissemination of health data to gain knowledge of the pattern of disease occurrence in order to
control and prevent disease in the community.
Invisible seeds - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Fracastoro (1500s) said that disease was transmitted person to
person (germs)
Ignatz Semmelweiss (1841) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Discovered good hand washing. He observed that
doctors went directly from conducting autopsies on moms that died from childbed fever into the
delivery room
Robert Koch (1843-1910) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Established Koch's postulates - a sequence of
experimental steps that verified the germ theory. Injected mice with blood from sick cattle. Proof of
microorganisms causing infections and disease
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Invented the microscope
What is the difference between public health and population health? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅population health specifically includes the healthcare delivery system which is often seen
as separate or in direct opposition to public health
What is population health? (Definition) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the health outcomes of a group of
individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group
What are vital statistics? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅quantitative data concerning a population, such as the
number of births, marriages, and deaths.
Commmunity health assessments - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Assessments, identify key health needs and
issues through systematic, comprehensive data collection and analysis
sentinel surveillance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅system is used when high-quality data are needed about a
particular disease that cannot be obtained through a passive system (influenza)
