PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING
ELABORATION 2024 ACTUAL FINAL
EXAM WITH ALL POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS/A GRADE
State of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity. - ANSWER HEALTH
The directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. -
ANSWER WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
All organized measures to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the
population as a whole. Its
activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be healthy and focus on entire
populations, not on individual patients or diseases (WHO) - ANSWER PUBLIC HEALTH
The practice of preventing disease and promoting good health within groups of people,
from small communities to entire countries - ANSWER PUBLIC HEALTH
The application of science to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature to the
uses of humankind. - ANSWER ENGINEERING
Pathogens that cross the placenta: - ANSWER - TAXOPLASMOSIS
- SYPHILIS
- LISTERIOSIS
- AIDS
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,- GERMAN MEASLES
Are means through which the body becomes infected by disease-producing agents. The
channels may be the respiratory tract, the digestive tract, exterior surfaces of the body. -
ANSWER CHANNELS OF INFECTION
Implies the occurrence of a few scattered cases of the disease without relationship to
other cases; a few cases every now and then - ANSWER SPORADIC
Disease that occurs only occasionally within the population of a particular geographic
area. - ANSWER SPORADIC
Sporadic Diseases in the Philippines - ANSWER - PELLAGRA
- ELEPHANTIASIS
- MYELITIS
The term applied to a specific disease when it normally prevails in a locality and does
not fluctuate markedly from the normal expected incidence in the community -
ANSWER ENDEMIC
Diseases that are always present within the population of a particular geographic area. -
ANSWER ENDEMIC
Refers to persistent, high levels of disease occurrence - ANSWER HYPERENDEMIC
Endemic Diseases in the Philippines - ANSWER - CHRONIC DIARRHEA
- TYPHOID
- DYSENTERY
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, The incidence of a communicable disease among a number of people to an extent that
is recognized statistically as being well beyond the normal expectancy for the disease in
a community in a definite period of time - ANSWER EPIDEMIC
Greater than usual number of cases of a disease in a particular region, usually occurring
within a relatively short period of time. - ANSWER EPIDEMIC
Outbreaks in the Philippines - ANSWER - DENGUE FEVER
- GERMAN MEASLES
CHOLERA
Affects large number of people at the same time and transcends community boundaries
- ANSWER PANDEMIC
Disease that is occurring in epidemic proportions in many countries simultaneously -
sometimes worldwide. - ANSWER PANDEMIC
Pandemic Diseases (WHO) - ANSWER - HIV/AIDS
- TUBERCULOSIS
- MALARIA
Three levels of disease prevention - ANSWER - PRIMARY PREVENTION
- SECONDARY PREVENTION
- TERTIARY PREVENTION
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