PHC 4101 Midterm Exam 2025-2026 Questions
And Answers Graded A+
Which core function of public health is meant to monitor health status to identify
community health problems, as well as diagnose and investigate health problems
and health hazards in the community?
Assessment
Which core function of public health is meant to inform, educate, and empower
people about health issues, mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve
health problems, and develop policies and plans that support individual and
community health efforts?
Policy Development
Which core function of public health is meant to enforce laws and regulations that
protect health and ensure safety, link people to needed personal health services and
assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable, assure a competent
public health and personal healthcare workforce, and evaluate effectiveness,
accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services?
,Assurance
What are the 5 steps in approaching health problems in a community?
1. Define the health problem
2. Identify the risk factors associated with the problem
3. Develop and test community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause
of the problem
4. Implement interventions to improve the health of the population
5. Monitor those interventions to assess the effectiveness
The main task of _______ is to develop interventions designed to prevent specific
problems that have been identified either through an assessment process initiated
by a public health agency or through community has a high rate of cancer in
comparison with other similar communities.
Prevention
______ prevention prevents an illness or injury from occurring at all, by preventing
exposure to risk factors.
Primary
,These two scenarios are examples of what type of prevention?
-Prevention for cancer includes efforts to discourage teenagers from smoking and
efforts to encourage smokers to quit
-Prevention of crashes by building divided highways and installing traffic lights
Primary Prevention
Who defined public health as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging
life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community
efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections,
the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization
of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of
disease, and the development of the social machinery which will ensure to every
individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of
health" ?
Charles-Edward A. Winslow
Who defined public health as "a coalition of professions united by their shared
mission as well as by their focus on disease prevention and health promotion; their
prospective approach in contrast to the reactive focus of therapeutic medicine, and
their common science, epidemiology" ?
The Institute of Medicine
_____ _____ focuses on preventing illness; assesses the health of the population,
diagnoses the problems, seeks the causes of those problems, and devises strategies
, to cure them; achievements and focus on prevention are more abstract than
medicine; contributes a great deal more to the health of a population than medicine
does; based on science - when scientists are certain they know all about the causes
of a problem and what should be done about it, a political decision is generally
necessary before action can be taken to solve it.
Public Health
_____ _____ focuses on healing patients who are ill; save money on medical costs
because of effective public health programs; based on science - when a doctor
diagnoses a patient's illness and recommends a treatment, it is up to the patient to
accept or reject the doctor's recommendation.
Clinical Medicine
What are the three core functions of public health?
1. Assessment
2. Policy Development
3. Assurance
______ prevention seeks to minimize the severity of the illness or the damage due
to an injury-causing event once the even has occurred.
Secondary
And Answers Graded A+
Which core function of public health is meant to monitor health status to identify
community health problems, as well as diagnose and investigate health problems
and health hazards in the community?
Assessment
Which core function of public health is meant to inform, educate, and empower
people about health issues, mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve
health problems, and develop policies and plans that support individual and
community health efforts?
Policy Development
Which core function of public health is meant to enforce laws and regulations that
protect health and ensure safety, link people to needed personal health services and
assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable, assure a competent
public health and personal healthcare workforce, and evaluate effectiveness,
accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services?
,Assurance
What are the 5 steps in approaching health problems in a community?
1. Define the health problem
2. Identify the risk factors associated with the problem
3. Develop and test community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause
of the problem
4. Implement interventions to improve the health of the population
5. Monitor those interventions to assess the effectiveness
The main task of _______ is to develop interventions designed to prevent specific
problems that have been identified either through an assessment process initiated
by a public health agency or through community has a high rate of cancer in
comparison with other similar communities.
Prevention
______ prevention prevents an illness or injury from occurring at all, by preventing
exposure to risk factors.
Primary
,These two scenarios are examples of what type of prevention?
-Prevention for cancer includes efforts to discourage teenagers from smoking and
efforts to encourage smokers to quit
-Prevention of crashes by building divided highways and installing traffic lights
Primary Prevention
Who defined public health as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging
life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community
efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections,
the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization
of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of
disease, and the development of the social machinery which will ensure to every
individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of
health" ?
Charles-Edward A. Winslow
Who defined public health as "a coalition of professions united by their shared
mission as well as by their focus on disease prevention and health promotion; their
prospective approach in contrast to the reactive focus of therapeutic medicine, and
their common science, epidemiology" ?
The Institute of Medicine
_____ _____ focuses on preventing illness; assesses the health of the population,
diagnoses the problems, seeks the causes of those problems, and devises strategies
, to cure them; achievements and focus on prevention are more abstract than
medicine; contributes a great deal more to the health of a population than medicine
does; based on science - when scientists are certain they know all about the causes
of a problem and what should be done about it, a political decision is generally
necessary before action can be taken to solve it.
Public Health
_____ _____ focuses on healing patients who are ill; save money on medical costs
because of effective public health programs; based on science - when a doctor
diagnoses a patient's illness and recommends a treatment, it is up to the patient to
accept or reject the doctor's recommendation.
Clinical Medicine
What are the three core functions of public health?
1. Assessment
2. Policy Development
3. Assurance
______ prevention seeks to minimize the severity of the illness or the damage due
to an injury-causing event once the even has occurred.
Secondary
