Quizzes and Full Verified Solutions
What are the 3 examples that create healthier communities? - -Smoking cessation
program
-Asthma attacks due to environment but according to Johns Hopkins asthma attacks are because
of tobacco
-Get rid of toys in high calorie meals at McDonalds kids meals.
Public health focuses on? - -Families, aggregates, communities, and populations
- Community is Recipient of service
Top diseases that are prevalent in the world? - -HIV, TB (secondly infectious), CVD
disease, rise in antibiotic resistance strains, terrorism, and pollution driven environmental
hazard
-US focuses on fighting obesity
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What is public health? - -According to the future of public health: fulfilling society
interest in assuring conditions in which people are healthy
-"An effort organized by society to protect, promote, and restore the people's health. The
health of the population as a whole rather than medical health care, that focuses on txt of indiv.
ailment
What are the core functions of public health? - -Assessment
-Policy dev.
-Assurance
What is community health? - Identify needs along with protection and improvement of
collective health, within geographically defined area
What is Common unity? - collection of people interact and share specific values or
common traits
What is community? - -Collection of people who interact with one another and have
common interest or characteristics form the basis for a a sense of unity or belonging
, -Function of any community collective sense of belonging and shared identity, values, norms,
communication and common interest and concerns
What is geographic community? - community defined by geographic boundaries
What is global health? - International public health circles
-Raises an expectation of health for all, for if good health is possible in 1 part of the world, the
forces of globalization raises an expectation of health for all
What is a common-interest community? - -A collection of people, even if widely scattered
geographically have a common interest that binds the members together
-Ex: international nursing professional organization, families who have lost members to suicide
-They focus on health related issue and can join with community health agencies to promote
their agendas
What is community solutions? - People come together to solve problems that affect them
all
What is population? - All the people occupying an area or to all of those who share one
or more characteristic and they do not have to interact with one another (what make pop
different from community)
-Epidemiologic (finding cause) and demographics
-Ex: elderly population, homeless pop., racial or ethnic group
What does aggregate mean? - -Mass or group of distinct indiv. who are considered as a
whole and who are loosely associated with one another
-Encompasses many different-sized groups like communities and population
What is the best description of aggregate? - Group of indiv. who are loosely associated
with one another
The terms community, aggregate and population are interchangeable? - False
Which variables are characteristics of an aggregate? - A group of distinct indiv.
Loosely associated with each other
Considered as a whole
True or False Aggregate communities interact together? - False. They don't have to