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Final Exam- PHC 6588 questions withcorrect answers
Please identify the three core functions of public health: - correct answer ✔✔assessment, policy
development, assurance
In the United States, what level of government bears responsibility for public health? - correct answer
✔✔State
Health systems globally differ from those in the United States in which of the following ways? - correct
answer ✔✔Global health systems typically include responsibility for personal health (clinical care)
services
The recent revisions to the Ten Essential Public Health Services put which of the following at the center
of the model signifying its importance as a core driver of public health practice? - correct answer
✔✔Equity
As discussed in Turnock, which of the following types of law refers to the rules and regulations that
govern many public health efforts in the United States? - correct answer ✔✔Administrative law
For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: local level - correct
answer ✔✔Direct provision of services
For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: state level - correct
answer ✔✔Police power
For each level of government, identify the most appropriate function for that level: federal level - correct
answer ✔✔Grants-in-aid
The term "federalism" refers to which of the following? - correct answer ✔✔A system by which power is
shared between national and state governments
, In the United States, city and county health departments were initially created to respond what public
health threat? - correct answer ✔✔Infectious diseases
The foundational definition of health, still used today, was written by which organization, following the
end of the Second World War? - correct answer ✔✔The World Health Organization
The welcome video for this course posted on the Canvas course site emphasized which important
competency? - correct answer ✔✔Professionalism and integrity
Who coined the term "vaccine" in his seminal work on smallpox? - correct answer ✔✔Edward Jenner
Who halted a London epidemic by removing the handle on a public water pump thereby eliminating the
mode of disease transmission? - correct answer ✔✔John Snow
What disease was john snow trying to stop? - correct answer ✔✔cholera
Who, 20 years later, determined the actual disease causing agent in this epidemic? - correct answer
✔✔Robert Koch
Who led the sanitary movement in the latter half of the 19th century in London? - correct answer
✔✔Edwin Chadwick
In which US state was the first Board of Health created? - correct answer ✔✔Massachusetts
Of the 30 years in life expectancy gained in the United States from 1900-1999, public health
improvements as outlined in the CDC's "Ten Great Achievements in Public Health 1900-1999", as
opposed to advances in medical care, are believed to have contributed how many of those years? -
correct answer ✔✔25 years
As discussed in Turnock, what are the two widely followed measures of the health status of a population
over time? - correct answer ✔✔Life expectancy and infant mortality
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