Primary Health Care Exam 1 |Questions
and Answers
WHO origin and responsibilities - -o An agency of the United Nations founded in 1948
-Identify global health research priorities
-Monitor epidemics
-Compile health statistics
-Evidence based practice
-Define PACES - -Population
Action
Cooperation
Equity
Security
-Population (PACES) - -Focus on the exposures and diseases that cause the greatest public
health burden and affect large numbers of people in diverse geographic regions
cardiovascular disease, drinking water
-Action (PACES) - -Focus on effective, low-cost interventions that prevent illness and
injury, diagnose and treat diseases, and alleviate suffering
Hunger, HIV medication
-Cooperation (PACES) - -Focus on health concerns that must be addressed through
worldwide efforts to share knowledge, tools, and resources
air pollution, drug resistant infections
-Equity (PACES) - -Focus on helping the global poor and addressing social, environmental,
and health inequalities
mental health, neglected tropical disease/ parasitic disease
-Security (PACES) - -Focus on addressing the health issues most likely to contribute to
political and economic instability and conflict
violence, emerging infectious diseases
-Primary intervention - -people without disease, preventing disease from occurring
vaccinating children, giving vitamin A to prevent blindness
, -Secondary intervention - -person with early or non-symptomatic disease, reduce the
severity of disease to prevent disability and death
checking blood pressure, mammogram
-Tertiary intervention - -person with symptomatic disease, reduce impairment and
minimize suffering
Physical therapy, extracting teeth with severe decay to alleviate pain
-Define Health Promotion - -Modifying behavior of individuals to improve society at large
in order to decrease risk of illness and improve health
-Define Public Health and its core disciplines - -Public Health: promotes health and
preventing illness, injury, and early deaths at the population level
-epidemiology
-biostatistics
-medicine
-environmental health
-health promotion
-environmental health (public health core discipline) - -the study of the connections
between human health and environmental exposures such as air quality, water quality,
pathogen transmitting insects, radiation, solid and hazardous waste, etc
-Epidemiology (public health core discipline) - -The study of the distribution of health
problems in populations, the risk factors for developing those conditions, and the
effectiveness of interventions to address these concerns
-Biostatistics (public health core discipline) - -The science of analyzing health data and
interpreting the results so that they can be applied to solving public health problems
-Health promotion (public health core discipline) - -An applied social science that
encourages individuals and communities to take steps to improve their own health
-Medicine (public health core discipline) - -focuses on preventing, diagnosing, and treating
health problems in individuals and families
-Alma Ata - -Call for the global health community to focus on health of all people of the
world/ the importance of providing access and care to underserved populations
-human rights - -entitlements that are due to every person simply because that person is
human
and Answers
WHO origin and responsibilities - -o An agency of the United Nations founded in 1948
-Identify global health research priorities
-Monitor epidemics
-Compile health statistics
-Evidence based practice
-Define PACES - -Population
Action
Cooperation
Equity
Security
-Population (PACES) - -Focus on the exposures and diseases that cause the greatest public
health burden and affect large numbers of people in diverse geographic regions
cardiovascular disease, drinking water
-Action (PACES) - -Focus on effective, low-cost interventions that prevent illness and
injury, diagnose and treat diseases, and alleviate suffering
Hunger, HIV medication
-Cooperation (PACES) - -Focus on health concerns that must be addressed through
worldwide efforts to share knowledge, tools, and resources
air pollution, drug resistant infections
-Equity (PACES) - -Focus on helping the global poor and addressing social, environmental,
and health inequalities
mental health, neglected tropical disease/ parasitic disease
-Security (PACES) - -Focus on addressing the health issues most likely to contribute to
political and economic instability and conflict
violence, emerging infectious diseases
-Primary intervention - -people without disease, preventing disease from occurring
vaccinating children, giving vitamin A to prevent blindness
, -Secondary intervention - -person with early or non-symptomatic disease, reduce the
severity of disease to prevent disability and death
checking blood pressure, mammogram
-Tertiary intervention - -person with symptomatic disease, reduce impairment and
minimize suffering
Physical therapy, extracting teeth with severe decay to alleviate pain
-Define Health Promotion - -Modifying behavior of individuals to improve society at large
in order to decrease risk of illness and improve health
-Define Public Health and its core disciplines - -Public Health: promotes health and
preventing illness, injury, and early deaths at the population level
-epidemiology
-biostatistics
-medicine
-environmental health
-health promotion
-environmental health (public health core discipline) - -the study of the connections
between human health and environmental exposures such as air quality, water quality,
pathogen transmitting insects, radiation, solid and hazardous waste, etc
-Epidemiology (public health core discipline) - -The study of the distribution of health
problems in populations, the risk factors for developing those conditions, and the
effectiveness of interventions to address these concerns
-Biostatistics (public health core discipline) - -The science of analyzing health data and
interpreting the results so that they can be applied to solving public health problems
-Health promotion (public health core discipline) - -An applied social science that
encourages individuals and communities to take steps to improve their own health
-Medicine (public health core discipline) - -focuses on preventing, diagnosing, and treating
health problems in individuals and families
-Alma Ata - -Call for the global health community to focus on health of all people of the
world/ the importance of providing access and care to underserved populations
-human rights - -entitlements that are due to every person simply because that person is
human
