Community And Public Health Quiz 1 1-1
Questions And Complete Answers
Actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people can
be healthy can occur is termed: - answer public health.
Physical factors affecting community health include geography, community size, and
industrial development. - answer True
Choosing to eat wisely, wearing a safety belt, and visiting the physician are examples of
community/public health activities. - answer False
A community is a group of people who have common characteristics. - answer True
List and explain three physical factors affecting community health. - answer Three
physical factors affecting our community health are geography, the environment, and
community size.
Geography: this influences the types of diseases based upon the climate, the
temperature, and altitude. When in a forest area where it might rain a lot you could have
a good water supply but it could also hold lots of diseases withing and the soil being so
moist would not be helpful when it comes to making food to eat unlike places where it is
less wet all the time when you don't have to worry about pesticides and other diseases,
you might suffer from obesity and heart conditions due to the production and how easy it
is to consume food in our day.
Environment: what we do with the land that we were given is what we consider
environment. People can create play grounds and parks for people to play at or they can
create landfills, city and towns that may loose the land they are built upon. Along with
how we create the environment changes it from how it was to something new and with
all these new enhancements the future generation will not receive natural land with
natural diseases but instead human influences on the environment. That is why it is so
important for us now to fix what we can so we don't make our natural resources go
extinct will help the community health.
Community Size: with a big population it can lead to spreading of disease much faster
which is why they have more health facilities as well as causing environmental
problems. With a smaller population the spreading of disease would be really slow and
we wouldn't have such huge landfills.
Questions And Complete Answers
Actions that society takes collectively to ensure that the conditions in which people can
be healthy can occur is termed: - answer public health.
Physical factors affecting community health include geography, community size, and
industrial development. - answer True
Choosing to eat wisely, wearing a safety belt, and visiting the physician are examples of
community/public health activities. - answer False
A community is a group of people who have common characteristics. - answer True
List and explain three physical factors affecting community health. - answer Three
physical factors affecting our community health are geography, the environment, and
community size.
Geography: this influences the types of diseases based upon the climate, the
temperature, and altitude. When in a forest area where it might rain a lot you could have
a good water supply but it could also hold lots of diseases withing and the soil being so
moist would not be helpful when it comes to making food to eat unlike places where it is
less wet all the time when you don't have to worry about pesticides and other diseases,
you might suffer from obesity and heart conditions due to the production and how easy it
is to consume food in our day.
Environment: what we do with the land that we were given is what we consider
environment. People can create play grounds and parks for people to play at or they can
create landfills, city and towns that may loose the land they are built upon. Along with
how we create the environment changes it from how it was to something new and with
all these new enhancements the future generation will not receive natural land with
natural diseases but instead human influences on the environment. That is why it is so
important for us now to fix what we can so we don't make our natural resources go
extinct will help the community health.
Community Size: with a big population it can lead to spreading of disease much faster
which is why they have more health facilities as well as causing environmental
problems. With a smaller population the spreading of disease would be really slow and
we wouldn't have such huge landfills.
