SPHHS-150 Final Exam Review || ANSWERS RATED
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Core Functions of Public Health correct answers Assessment, Policy Development,
Assurance
What is the purpose of these services? correct answers -Provide equal and equitable
opportunities for all people, regardless of race, sexuality, gender, etc to achieve optimal
health
-creates a framework for public health
-promotes policies that dismantle barriers such as poverty, racism, sexism, ableism, etc
10 essential public health services correct answers 1. Monitor health status to identify and
solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care
when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
10 Essential Public health services (assessment) correct answers 1.Monitor health status of a
population to identify and solve community environmental health problems
2. Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and hazards within a community
10 Essential Public Health Services (Policy Development) correct answers 3. Inform,
educate, and empower people about health issues
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
10 essential public health services assurance correct answers 6. enforce laws and regulations
(local & fed)
7. link people to needed personal health services and care
8. assure a competent workforce
9. evaluate (guidelines, evidence-based medicine)
10 research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health problems
Epidemiology correct answers A branch of science interested in the distribution and
determinants of health states or health related events in a community. Applies this study to
the control of public health problems
Distribution correct answers The pattern and frequency of health events in a population. Does
not just imply number sick. But also rate of disease or risk in a population
, Rate correct answers Rate= # of events/population size
To assess, monitor and encourage the demand for needed prevention services in the
community are the goals for what kind of population health management? correct answers
Five Disciplines of Public Health correct answers Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental
Health, Social and behavioral health, and health policy
Medicine vs. Public Health correct answers Medicine: Healing, for the individual
Public Health: Prevention, for the whole community
The Period of health protection correct answers Integrated elements of prevention into their
daily lives; ex: prohibitions against certain types of foods and food prep guidelines
John Snow and Cholera correct answers Cholera epidemics in London, mid 1850s
Suspected an association with water supply, which came from the Thames River
"Natural experiment"
Questioned households where a cholera death had occurred
Most deaths associated with one company
John Graunt correct answers Introduced vital statistics to understand human populations
Edwin Chadwick correct answers This was a public health official who wrote reports on the
poor living conditions of the cities and believed that poverty was caused by illnesses
Dorothea Dix correct answers Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first
wave of US mental asylums
Margaret Sanger correct answers American leader of the movement to legalize birth control
during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the
suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S.
and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
Charles Richard Drew correct answers a researcher in blood plasma, he discovered that blood
could be preserved by separating the red blood cells from the plasma, which could them be
frozen
Nancy Miriam Hawley correct answers - Advocate for women's health,
- In 1969, Our Bodies, Ourselves was written and published
PERIE correct answers Problem
Etiology
Recommendations
Implementation
Evaluation
Dunning-Kruger Effect correct answers The tendency for unskilled individuals to
overestimate their own ability and the tendency for experts to underestimate their own ability.
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Core Functions of Public Health correct answers Assessment, Policy Development,
Assurance
What is the purpose of these services? correct answers -Provide equal and equitable
opportunities for all people, regardless of race, sexuality, gender, etc to achieve optimal
health
-creates a framework for public health
-promotes policies that dismantle barriers such as poverty, racism, sexism, ableism, etc
10 essential public health services correct answers 1. Monitor health status to identify and
solve community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care
when otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
10 Essential Public health services (assessment) correct answers 1.Monitor health status of a
population to identify and solve community environmental health problems
2. Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and hazards within a community
10 Essential Public Health Services (Policy Development) correct answers 3. Inform,
educate, and empower people about health issues
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
10 essential public health services assurance correct answers 6. enforce laws and regulations
(local & fed)
7. link people to needed personal health services and care
8. assure a competent workforce
9. evaluate (guidelines, evidence-based medicine)
10 research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental health problems
Epidemiology correct answers A branch of science interested in the distribution and
determinants of health states or health related events in a community. Applies this study to
the control of public health problems
Distribution correct answers The pattern and frequency of health events in a population. Does
not just imply number sick. But also rate of disease or risk in a population
, Rate correct answers Rate= # of events/population size
To assess, monitor and encourage the demand for needed prevention services in the
community are the goals for what kind of population health management? correct answers
Five Disciplines of Public Health correct answers Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental
Health, Social and behavioral health, and health policy
Medicine vs. Public Health correct answers Medicine: Healing, for the individual
Public Health: Prevention, for the whole community
The Period of health protection correct answers Integrated elements of prevention into their
daily lives; ex: prohibitions against certain types of foods and food prep guidelines
John Snow and Cholera correct answers Cholera epidemics in London, mid 1850s
Suspected an association with water supply, which came from the Thames River
"Natural experiment"
Questioned households where a cholera death had occurred
Most deaths associated with one company
John Graunt correct answers Introduced vital statistics to understand human populations
Edwin Chadwick correct answers This was a public health official who wrote reports on the
poor living conditions of the cities and believed that poverty was caused by illnesses
Dorothea Dix correct answers Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first
wave of US mental asylums
Margaret Sanger correct answers American leader of the movement to legalize birth control
during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the
suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S.
and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
Charles Richard Drew correct answers a researcher in blood plasma, he discovered that blood
could be preserved by separating the red blood cells from the plasma, which could them be
frozen
Nancy Miriam Hawley correct answers - Advocate for women's health,
- In 1969, Our Bodies, Ourselves was written and published
PERIE correct answers Problem
Etiology
Recommendations
Implementation
Evaluation
Dunning-Kruger Effect correct answers The tendency for unskilled individuals to
overestimate their own ability and the tendency for experts to underestimate their own ability.
