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SCN-195 Exam 1 questions with 100% correct answers graded A+
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SCN-195 Exam 1 questions with 100% correct answers graded A+
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SCN-195 Exam 1Focus of Public Health in U.S until 1950s - correct answer ✔✔Public health efforts have focused upon the
control of infectious diseases.
1970's Public Health Focus - correct answer ✔✔Recognized that health promotion efforts have great
potential for reducing morbidity, saving lives, and reducing costs • The visibility of health
education/promotion began to increase (chronic diseases)
Dimensions of Health: - correct answer ✔✔A dynamic state or condition that is multidimensional -
Physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual. A resource for living, and results from a person's
interactions with and adaptation to the environment"
Wellness - correct answer ✔✔Joint Committee, 2012 -an approach to health that focuses on balancing
the many aspects, or dimensions.
Mortality Rate - correct answer ✔✔Most frequently used to measure the seriousness of injury or
disease.
Social Determinants of Health - correct answer ✔✔Economic Stability, Education, Social and Community
Context, Health and Health Care, Neighborhood and Build Environment.
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Prevention that forestalls the onset of illness or injury
(healthy/no disease)
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Leads to early diagnosis and prompt treatment of a disease
or illness to limit the impact of the disease. (No symptoms)
Tertiary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Includes retraining, reeducation, and rehabilitation of an
individual who has incurred disability or impairment (treatment). (Diagnosed disease)
, Focus of Health Promotion - correct answer ✔✔Modify risk factors - such as hand washing , flu shot
campaigns.
Epidemiology - correct answer ✔✔Study of the distribution of disease and determinants of health-
related states or events in specific populations, and the application of this study to control health
problems.
Cultural Competency - correct answer ✔✔Developmental process defined as a set of values, principles,
behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable health professionals to work effectively across racial, ethnic
and linguistically diverse populations.
Early Humans learned by - correct answer ✔✔observation as well as by trial and error
India 4000BC - correct answer ✔✔India set public sanitation with bathrooms and drains
Greek father of medicine - correct answer ✔✔Hippocrates
Caduceus - correct answer ✔✔Staff and serpent of the physician u symbol of the temples of Asclepius.
Roman Public Health - correct answer ✔✔Developed public and private baths. As well as a system of
private medical practice. Were the first to build a hospital. Further the work of Greek in the study of
anatomy and the practice surgery.
Renaissance surgeons - correct answer ✔✔Surgery and dentistry was performed by barbers because
they had the best chairs and sharpest instruments available.
Miasmas theory - correct answer ✔✔Belief that disease was formed in filth and caused by some type of
poison spread in the air.
John Snow - correct answer ✔✔He removed pump handle to stop the epidemic.
Pasteur - correct answer ✔✔Promotes germ theory of disease.
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