PHC 6001 EXAM 1 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

PHC 6001 EXAM 1 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS




Two major indicators of public health - ANS -Infant mortality
-Life expectancy


Definition of public health - ANS Combination of sciences, skills, and beliefs directed to the
maintenance and improvement of the health of all the people through collective or societal
actions


Core functions of public health - ANS -Assessment
-Policy development
-Assurance


Tools of public health - ANS -Surveillance systems
-Implementation of research findings
-Dissemination of guidelines
-Development of effective public health interventions
-Public policy


Goals of public health - ANS To protect, promote, and restore the health of the population
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___________ asks, What is the problem? - ANS Surveillance

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, ____________ asks, What is the cause? - ANS Risk factor evaluation


___________ asks, What works? - ANS Intervention and evaluation


___________ asks, How do you do it? - ANS Implementation


Epidemiologic tools are used to identify.... - ANS -frequency
-distribution
-determinants
-control


__________ is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events
in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems. -
ANS Epidemiology


Modes of disease transmission - ANS -Direct
-Indirect


______________ is the resistance of a group of people to an attack by a disease to which a
large proportion of the members of the group are immune. - ANS Herd immunity


____________ is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination
of outcome-specific data for use in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public
health practice. - ANS Surveillance


________________ is the recognition of a new or increased pattern of morbidity or mortality. -
ANS Clinical observation
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