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PUBH 201 - Exam 1 ReviewPublic Health - correct answer ✔✔the science of protecting and improving the health of communities
through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and research for disease and injury prevention
PUBH is concerned with... - correct answer ✔✔Communities (neighborhoods, states and entire
countries)
3 Core Functions of Public Health - correct answer ✔✔1. Assessment (monitor and diagnose)
2. Policy Development (working plan)
3. Assurance (implementation and evaluation)
Public Health v. Medical Care - correct answer ✔✔community v. individual
proactive v. reactive
policy v. physicians
Controversies in Public Health - correct answer ✔✔Morals, religion and politics
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔an intervention implemented before there is evidence of a
disease or injury
secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔an intervention implemented after the disease has begun,
but before it's symptomatic
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔an intervention implemented after the disease is established
5 Step Public Health Approach - correct answer ✔✔1. Define the health problem (surveillance)
2. Identify the risk factor associated with the problem
3. develop and test community-level interventions to control or prevent the cause of the problem
, 4. implement interventions to improve the health of the population
5. monitor those interventions to assess their effectiveness
5 Determinants of Health - correct answer ✔✔1. Genetics: sex, age, individual characteristics
2. Individual lifestyle factors
3. Social and community networks
4. Living and working conditions
5. General socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions
Social Determinants of Health - correct answer ✔✔The conditions in which people are born, grow, live,
work, and age, shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local
levels
Health consequences v. risk factors - correct answer ✔✔health consequences result from engaging in
activities that are considered to be risky behaviors that lead to the development of disease. Example:
smoking (risk factor) can lead to lung cancer (health consequence)
Utilitarianism - correct answer ✔✔idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest
happiness for the greatest number of people
Autonomy - correct answer ✔✔self-government
Liberty - correct answer ✔✔freedom of choice
Market Justice - correct answer ✔✔A distributional principle according to which health care is most
equitably distributed through the market forces of supply and demand, rather than government
interventions.
Social Justice - correct answer ✔✔the defense of human dignity by ensuring that essential human needs
are met and that essential human rights are protected for all people
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