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Public Health Final Exam CompleteQuestions And Answers A+ Graded
What is Public Health CORRECT ANSWERS "What we as a society do collectively to
assure the conditions in which people can be healthy"- IOM
Public Health and Prevention CORRECT ANSWERS Public health professionals try to
prevent problems from happening or re-occurring.
Public Health and Population Focus CORRECT ANSWERS Public health is concerned
with protecting the health of entire populations.
These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire
country.
Definition of Health CORRECT ANSWERS "A state of COMPLETE physical, mental,
and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." --World Health
Organization (WHO)
10 Major Public Health Achievements CORRECT ANSWERS 1.Vaccination
2.Motor-vehicle safety
3.Safer workplaces
4.Control of infectious diseases
5.Decline in death from coronary heart disease and stroke
6.Safer and healthier foods
7.Healthier mothers and babies
8.Family planning
9.Flouridation of drinking water
10.Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
Core functions of public health CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Assessment
2.Policy Development
3.Assurance
Assessment CORRECT ANSWERS Assemble, analyze and make available information
on the health of the community, including statistics on health status, community health
needs, and epidemiologic and other studies of health problems.
Policy Development CORRECT ANSWERS Every public health agency shall exercise
its responsibility to serve the public interest in the development of comprehensive public
health policies by promoting use of the scientific knowledge base in decision-making
about public health and by leading in developing public health policy.
, Assurance CORRECT ANSWERS Public health agencies should assure their
constituents that services necessary to achieve agreed upon goals are provided, either
by:
-Encouraging actions by other entities (private or public sector)
-Requiring action through regulation
-Providing services directly
4 sections of Public Health Infrastructure CORRECT ANSWERS 1.Federal Level
2.State Level
3.Local Level
4.Nongovermental Organizations (NGOs)
Federal Level CORRECT ANSWERS Funding: Federal Taxes
-DHHS plays the largest role
-others include: Department of Homeland Security, Education, Agriculture, Defense,
Transportation etc
DHHS Functions CORRECT ANSWERS -Policy making
-Financing
-Public health protection
State Level CORRECT ANSWERS Funding: State taxes and Federal Grants
-Funded mainly from state taxes and federal grants
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) CORRECT ANSWERS -Non-profit groups that
operate independently from the gov't
-Critical to carrying out public health initiatives through education, lobbying, research
Local Level CORRECT ANSWERS Funding:
-Local property/sales taxes
-funding from the state
-funding for specific services from the federal gov't, fees for services
Impact of industrialization and imperialism CORRECT ANSWERS -Rapid
industrialization meant an increasingly urban population
-Indecent housing, poverty, overcrowding, overflowing cesspools, contaminated water
supplies, and hunger
The Great Sanitary Awakening CORRECT ANSWERS Edwin Chadwick
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