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PUBH 302 2024 -2025FINAL EXAM
WITH A GRADE
SOLUTIONS
What are some causes of maternal mortality? - Answer -- haemorrhage
- abortion
- hypertension
- infection
which areas have the highest maternal mortality rates? - Answer -war torn countries with
destabilization of health care
what can drastically reduce maternal mortality - Answer -a trained and skilled birth
attendant
what is often led untreated that result in stroke? - Answer -Chronic DZ
what resources are needed for stroke patients? - Answer -- highly trained people
- people with heart and money
- local partners
characteristics of strokes - Answer -- hard to treat everywhere
- easier to prevent
- poor countries lack potential to prevent
health promotion - Answer -the combination of educational and environmental supports
for actions and living conducive to health
characteristics of health promotion - Answer -- broader than health education
- purposeful and organized
- involves a planned approach/program/intervention at macro level
health education - Answer -any combiantion of learning experiences designed to
facilitate voluntary actions conducive to health
characteristics of health education - Answer -- usually embedded in promotion programs
- one tool or strategy
- focuses on individuals (micro level)
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similarities between health promotion and health education - Answer -- well planned
- utilizes a combination of approaches,
- focus on health and wellbeing
- target behavior
differences between health promotion and health education - Answer -- promotion is
macro level and involves involuntary choice and it also includes education
education is mic
National Tox. program evaluates: - Answer -- endocrine disruptors
- occupational mixtures and exposures
- phytotoxicology
- safe drinking water
example of endocrine disruptors - Answer -BPA in water
example of phytotoxicology - Answer -tanning beds and UV
who was paracelsus - Answer -1533 - Miner's disease came from inhaling metal vapors;
foundation for the field of chemotherapy
Pott - Answer -1775; linked scrotal cancer and soot in chimney sweeps
Radium girls - Answer -1920's; radium girls licked their brushes to prove a point; the
owners fo the company knew the effects of handling radium, yet exposed women to
deathly danger
shoe salesmen - Answer -1950's; used a fluroscope to size feet to fit shoes; radiation of
feet; repeated exposure for salesmen
ramazzini - Answer -1713; italian doctor published "disease of workers"; first to link
hazards of dust, fumes, gases to lung disease in workers and asthma
paul ehrlich - Answer -1854; german scientist developed staining procedures to see how
toxicatns affect living organisms
rachel carson - Answer -1907 -1964; wrote "silent spring"; known as the founder of our
contemporary environmental movement
silent spring helped enact what - Answer -NEPA; National Environmental Policy Act
How many people could be fed for a year with the amount of food that the US throws
away each year - Answer -2 billion people
Food waste accounts for what fraction of all freshwater consumption? - Answer -1/4
What help farmers reduce food waste by helping farmers minimize losses, grow more
food, and use less land? - Answer -GMO's
Millenium development goals - Answer -- eradicate extreme poverty Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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