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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE: MPH 500 LATEST 2023 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
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1 / FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE: MPH 500 LATEST 2023 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION1.Public Health vs Medicine...how are they different?: The biggest difference between public health and medicine is that public health deals with health from the perspective of populations, while medicine deals with health from the perspective of individuals. In medicine, the patient is the individual person. In public health, the patient is the entire community.
2.Healthy People 2020 and its importance: Healthy People provides sci- ence-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Ameri-
cans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
-Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
-Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
-Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
3.Public health priorities 21st century: 1. Reduce poverty in the poorest countries of the world, and to eliminate the pockets of poverty that 2 / exist within countries, including among refugees.
2.Safeguard the gains already achieved in public health depends through sharing health and medical knowledge, expertise and experience on a global scale.
3.Enhance health potential in the future by preventing and reducing
premature mor- tality, morbidity and disability, enabling people of all
ages to achieve over time their maximum potential, intellectually and
physically through education, the development of life skills and healthy
lifestyles.
4.Strive to better understand healthy aging - the physical and mental
characteristics of old age and their associated problems
5.
4.Public health achievements in 20th and 21st century: 20th century
Immunizations Motor vehicle safety Workplace
safety
Control of infectious diseases (which includes immunizations) Declines in deaths from heart disease
and stroke
Safer and healthier foods Healthier mothers and babies Family planning
Fluoridation of drinking water to prevent dental caries (cavities) Reduction of tobacco use
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