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Mostly due to public health efforts, life expectancy increased from 1900 until the end of the 20th
Century by about _______ years - 30 years
T or F: The determinants of Health consist mainly of genetics (family history) and ...
FNDH 600 Quizzes up to Exam 1 | 100%
Correct | Verified | 2024 Version
Mostly due to public health efforts, life expectancy increased from 1900 until the end of the 20th
Century by about _______ years - ✔✔30 years
T or F: The determinants of Health consist mainly of genetics (family history) and personal choices, which
suggests that public health efforts should focus mainly each individual personal choices. - ✔✔False
This federal-level public health organization is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has
14,000 employees working in 40 countries, and a budget of more than $10 billion, including about $1
billion for health promotion programs. Their mission is "to promote health and quality of life by
preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability." - ✔✔Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
The 3 major functions or core functions of public health include: - ✔✔Assurance, policy development, &
assessment
In the USA in 1900, one of the top three causes of death was: - ✔✔Tuberculosis (or consumption)
The level of prevention that involves early detection of the potential for development of a disease or
condition is called: - ✔✔Primary prevention
"The history of public health might well be written as a record of successive re-definings of the
____________________." - ✔✔Unacceptable
Which of these is something a public health professional is least likely to do in their profession? -
✔✔Conduct phase I clinical trials for a new medication
If recent trends continue with US birth demographics and poverty among children, which of these is
most likely: - ✔✔The proportion of people living in poverty will increase
,Which of the following public health organizations was instrumental in helping thousands of farmers to
reclaim fertile river land for growing crops and simultaneously to prevent river blindness? - ✔✔World
Health Organization
Epidemiology - ✔✔The study of the distribution and determinants of disease or health status in a
population
Health Education - ✔✔Programs designed with a community to help it know about health risks about
health risks and how to reduce these risks
Health Promotion - ✔✔The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its
determinants, and thereby improve their health
Prevention - ✔✔Actions that reduce exposure or other risks, keep people from getting sick, or keep
disease from getting worse
Public Health Surveillance - ✔✔The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health
data
Environmental Health - ✔✔The protection from hazards in the environment
According to Warin (2018), "...these dominant discourses about an individual's ignorance and the
marked differences in food provision, types of health education and information, suggested
that people's knowledge about healthy eating was less sophisticated in one locale, and that they needed
to be educated with basic information and cooking lessons to help them change their 'ill-informed'
eating behaviours."
In this statement, the author is mainly highlighting perceived differences between: - ✔✔Higher and
lower socio-economic areas
According to Warin (2018), there is very strong evidence that interventions that try to change people's
behaviors in isolation are both effective and cost-effective. - ✔✔False
, Within the article by Warin (2018), the ethnographic vignette described by Nadine demonstrates that: -
✔✔Families are resources and the enablers of change in that they connect and build relationships with
other families in ways that professionals cannot
Warin's (2018) ethnographic fieldwork included all of the following except: - ✔✔Administering food
frequency questionnaires to participants
T or F: The absolute poverty threshold in the developing world is set at $14.40/day. - ✔✔False
As the world's leading health problem, poverty is associated with: - ✔✔Unsafe water and sanitation,
Inferior health care, High infant mortality and childhood deaths, Lower life expectancy among adults
T or F: Hunger is a cause of poverty - ✔✔True
T or F: More than 1 out of 4 people (2 billion) in the world do not have access to basic sanitation
services, such as toilet or simple latrine. - ✔✔True
T or F: As a proportion (%) of the overall populations, extreme poverty has been falling worldwide since
1990, but relative poverty in the USA has been increasing since 1959. - ✔✔False
In the United States, this is the type of poverty we describe when we say that about 1 in 5 children lives
below the poverty line: - ✔✔Relative poverty
T or F: The poverty rate today may be compared with the poverty rate of a decade ago, knowing that the
definition of what constitutes poverty has not changed. - ✔✔True
The practice of denying services, either directly or through selectively raising prices, to residents of
certain areas based on the racial or ethnic composition of those areas is specifically known as: -
✔✔Redlining
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