MABS CLINICAL PREVENTION AND
PUBLIC HEALTH EXAM (SECTION 1)
|GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Responsibilities of Public Health - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Assessment, policy development, and assurance
Assessment - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Systematically collect,
analyze, and make available information on healthy communities
Policy Development - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Promote the use of
a scientific knowledge base in policy and decision making
Assurance - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Ensure provision of services
to those in need
Public Health (1st Meaning) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Health
status of the public.
Public Health (2nd Meaning) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Organized
social efforts to preserve and improve the health of a defined population.
,Public Health (Significance 1) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ States the
central emphasis of all public health work - promoting health and
preventing disease
Public Health (Significance 2) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Emphasizes the diverse strategies required to promote health and prevent
disease
Public Health (Significance 3) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Clarifies
that for these goals to be achieved, organized social action is required.
The action is largely expressed in Federal, State, and local governments
and agencies' policies to promote and protect the health of the public.
Clinical Care - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Prevention, treatment, and
management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-
being through the services offered by medical and allied health
professions; also known as health care.
Determinant - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Factor that contributes to
the generation of a trait.
Epidemic or Outbreak - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Occurrence in a
community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related
behavior, or other health-related event clearly in excess of normal
expectancy.
, Health Outcome - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Result of a medical
condition that directly affects the length or quality of a person's life
500 BCE - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Greeks and Romans practice
community sanitation measures
1840s - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The Public Health Act of 1848
was established in the United Kingdom
1970 - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Environmental Protection Agency
established
Influenza - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 500 million infected
worldwide in 1928
Polio - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Vaccine introduced in 1955;
eradication initiative launched in 1988
HIV - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 34 million living with wordwide;
20% decline in new infections since 2001.
Biologic Warfare - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Plague used as a
weapon of war during the Siege of Kaffa
PUBLIC HEALTH EXAM (SECTION 1)
|GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
Responsibilities of Public Health - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Assessment, policy development, and assurance
Assessment - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Systematically collect,
analyze, and make available information on healthy communities
Policy Development - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Promote the use of
a scientific knowledge base in policy and decision making
Assurance - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Ensure provision of services
to those in need
Public Health (1st Meaning) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Health
status of the public.
Public Health (2nd Meaning) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Organized
social efforts to preserve and improve the health of a defined population.
,Public Health (Significance 1) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ States the
central emphasis of all public health work - promoting health and
preventing disease
Public Health (Significance 2) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Emphasizes the diverse strategies required to promote health and prevent
disease
Public Health (Significance 3) - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Clarifies
that for these goals to be achieved, organized social action is required.
The action is largely expressed in Federal, State, and local governments
and agencies' policies to promote and protect the health of the public.
Clinical Care - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Prevention, treatment, and
management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-
being through the services offered by medical and allied health
professions; also known as health care.
Determinant - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Factor that contributes to
the generation of a trait.
Epidemic or Outbreak - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Occurrence in a
community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related
behavior, or other health-related event clearly in excess of normal
expectancy.
, Health Outcome - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Result of a medical
condition that directly affects the length or quality of a person's life
500 BCE - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Greeks and Romans practice
community sanitation measures
1840s - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ The Public Health Act of 1848
was established in the United Kingdom
1970 - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Environmental Protection Agency
established
Influenza - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 500 million infected
worldwide in 1928
Polio - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Vaccine introduced in 1955;
eradication initiative launched in 1988
HIV - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 34 million living with wordwide;
20% decline in new infections since 2001.
Biologic Warfare - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Plague used as a
weapon of war during the Siege of Kaffa
