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NBME CBSE PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES EXAM NEWEST2024 ACTUAL EXAM 160 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
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Health - ANSWER: State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease
Public Health - ANSWER: focus on disease prevention and health promotion from a
population perspective
Three steps of public health - ANSWER: 1. assessment
2. policy development
3. assurance
Evidence based public health - ANSWER: the development, implementation, and
evaluation of effective programs and policies in public health through application of
scientific reasoning
steps in evidence based public health approach - ANSWER: 1. define problem
2. what causes the problem (etiology)
3. develop and test community level interventions to control/prevent the problem
(recommendations)
4. implement interventions to improve the health of a population (implementation)
5. monitor interventions to evaluate the effectiveness (evaluation)
Determinate of Health - ANSWER: general socioeconomic factors, social and
community networks, individual lifestyle factors, age/sex and constitutional factors
Mission of Public Health / core functions - ANSWER: - improve health through
disease prevention and health promotion
- identify causes of disease and implement large scale solutions
How has public health changed over time? - ANSWER: -shifted from communicable
and noncommunicable diseases to environmental concerns
-Vulnerable groups shifted from primarily mother-children, specific
occupation/behavior groups to disabled/uninsured/ and elderly, immunosuppressed
and genetically vulnerable
-Population shifted to global
-Health concerns widened to encompass mental, environmental, and disaster related
issues
What is the use of data in public health decisions? - ANSWER: helps to define at risk
diseases and what determinates affect the population
, statistical significance - ANSWER: a statistical statement of how likely it is that an
obtained result occurred by chance
practical significance - ANSWER: real-world importance
parameter - ANSWER: numbers that describe a population
statistic - ANSWER: numbers computed from a sample
quantitative data - ANSWER: numerical data
discrete data - ANSWER: data values are quantitative and the number of values is
finite or "countable"
statistics - ANSWER: The science of planning studies and experiments, obtaining
data, and then organizing, summarizing, presenting, analyzing, interpreting, and
drawing conclusions based on the data
biostatistics - ANSWER: pertains to statistics as applied to the medical, biological, and
health sciences
population health - ANSWER: the health outcomes of a group of individuals,
including the distribution of such outcomes within the group
Population - ANSWER: class of people that they are trying to make generalizations
about
Sample - ANSWER: portion of a population you are studying
Inference - ANSWER: generalizations about the entire population based on studying
people
Estimate - ANSWER: An approximation of a number based on reasonable
assumptions. the number computed from a sample
Bias - ANSWER: A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than
scientific
systematic sampling - ANSWER: select some starting point and then select every kth
element in the population
convenience sampling - ANSWER: use data that are very easy to get
stratified sampling - ANSWER: Subdivide the population into groups that share a
characteristic, then draw a sample from each subgroup
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