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NFS 212G Public Health Quiz #1 2024 questions with verified correct answers - complete solution
NFS 212G Public Health Quiz #1 2024 questions with verified correct answers - complete solution
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NFS 212G Public Health Quiz #1John Snow - ✅✅-- father of epidemiology
- Mapped the occurrence of cholera in London
Public Health - ✅✅ -The totality of all evidence-based public and private efforts that
preserve and promote health and prevent disease, disability, and death
What does public health focus on? - ✅✅-PREVENTION
Public Health vs. Medicine - ✅✅-Public Health:
- Population
- Prevention
- Promotion
- Interventions
Medicine:
- Individual
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Intervention
James Lind - ✅✅-Prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent scurvy in 1795 (on
ships)
Public Health Equation -✅✅-individual + community + population health = public health
Population Health includes... - ✅✅-- health care systems
- traditional public health
- social policy
✅✅
Health is... - -"a dynamic state of complete physical, mental, spiritual, and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
Public health is... -✅✅-"What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in
which people can be healthy."
What are the four components of population health? - ✅✅-- health issues
- population(s)
- Society's shared health concerns
- Society's vulnerable groups
high risk approach - ✅✅ -focuses on those with the highest probability of developing
disease and aims to bring their risk close to the levels experienced by the rest of the
population
improving the average approach - ✅✅-focuses on the entire population and aims to reduce
the risk for everyone
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