Public Health Science Exam 1, Public Health
Science Final Exam Study Guide.
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
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
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