PHC 4101 Quiz 1 (Weeks1-4) (with Complete Solutions)

10 essential public health services correct answers 1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems. 2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community. 3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues. 4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems. 5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts. 6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety. 7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable. 8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce. 9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services. 10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems. Core Public Health Functions correct answers assessment, policy development, assurance Morbidity correct answers Refers to ill health in an individual and the levels of ill health in a population or group. mortality correct answers rate of deaths in a population five core disciplines of public health correct answers Epidemiology, Biostats, Health management policy, environmental health, social and behavioral sciences Hallmarks of Public Health: correct answers social injustice, populations, prevention Public health approach vs. Medical approach correct answers Individual v. population Diagnosis/treatment v. Prevent/health promote Cure disease v. maintain health PH- join lab and field involvement, clinical science peripheral to professional training Ignaz Semmelweis correct answers advocated hand washing to prevent transmission of puerperal fever from one OB patient to another James Lind correct answers Discovered a cure for scurvy; first clinical trial John Snow correct answers father of epidemiology; traced cholera outbreak in Soho Geoffrey Vickers, 1958 correct answers Developed a definition for PH Charles-Edward Amory Winslow correct answers 1920 developed a definition for PH; considered 4/5 areas of core of PH (not biostats); yale professor