PHC 4101 Midterm FSU (All Correct 100%)

What are the three core functions of public health? correct answers Assessment, policy development, and assurance. Public health is concerned with the health of the individual? True or false? correct answers True. How many essential public health services are there? correct answers 10. Which of the 10 essential public health services fall under assessment? correct answers Monitor health; diagnose and investigate. Which of the 10 essential public health services fall under policy development? correct answers Inform, educate, and empower; mobilize community partnership; develop policies. Which of the 10 essential public health services fall under assurance? correct answers Enforce laws, link/provide care, assure a competent workforce, evaluate, and research. Health is defined by the WHO as... correct answers A dynamic state of complete physical, mental, spiritual, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Public health is defined by the Institute of Medicine as... correct answers What we as a society do to collectively assure the conditions in which people can be healthy. What are the areas of public health? correct answers Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health, Health Management and Policy, and Health Behavior and Health Education. John Snow's investigation in London at the Broad Street Pump reduced the epidemic of what disease? correct answers Cholera What did John Snow do that was an intervention to the Cholera epidemic? correct answers He removed the Broad Street Pump handle so that no one could get access to the contaminated water. What are the 5 steps in public health's approach to community health issues? correct answers Defining the health problem, identifying the risk factors, developing and testing interventions, implementing the interventions, and monitoring the interventions to assess effectiveness. Name 3 federal agencies involved in public health and what each one does. correct answers CDC, the main assessment and epidemiological agency in the U.S. NIH, biomedical research facility that funds research all over the country. FDA, oversees the regulation of medical devices (ex. pacemakers). States have the primary constitutional responsibility and authority for the protection of health, safety and general welfare of the population. True or false? And why? correct answers True,