what is public health? - correct answer ✔✔aims to prevent a population from experiencing ill health and
to achieve health equity, eliminate health disparities, and improve the health of all groups
functions of public health - correct answer ✔✔assessment
policy development
assurance
assessment - correct answer ✔✔1. assess and monitor public health
2. investigate, diagnose, and address health hazards and root causes
policy development - correct answer ✔✔1. communicate effectively to inform and educate
2. strengthen, support, and mobilize communicates and partnerships
3. create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws
3. improve and innovate through evaluation, research, and quality improvement
4. build and maintain a strong organizational infrastructure for public health
determinants of health - correct answer ✔✔30% genetics, 40% individual behavior, 20% social and
environmental factors, 10% health care
Evidence-based public health approach - correct answer ✔✔problem, etiology, recommendations,
implementation, evaluation (PERIE)
, what is the health problem? - correct answer ✔✔need to address: burden of disease, course of disease,
distribution of disease
burden of disease - correct answer ✔✔the occurrence of disability and death due to a disease
course of disease - correct answer ✔✔asks how often the disease occurs, how likely it is to be present
currently, and what happens once it occurs
distribution of disease - correct answer ✔✔1. asks who gets the disease, where they are located, when
does the disease occur
2. may help generate ideas or hypotheses about the disease's etiology
rate - correct answer ✔✔burden and course of disease requires the use of this measurement
what does the numerator measure in a rate? - correct answer ✔✔measures the number of times an
event, such as the diagnosis of lung cancer, occurs
what does the denominator measure in a rate? - correct answer ✔✔measures the number of times the
event could occur
-often times the total population is used as the denominator, as well as the at-risk population
incidence rate - correct answer ✔✔measures the chances of developing a disease over a period of time -
usually one year
incidence rate equation - correct answer ✔✔incidence rate = # of new cases of a disease in a year / # of
people in the at-risk population
mortality rate - correct answer ✔✔type of incidence rate that measures the incidence of death due to a
disease during a particular year
prevalence equation - correct answer ✔✔# living with a particular disease / # at-risk population
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