Public Health 101 Final Exam 2024-2025
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Public Health - Assessment, policy development, and assurance. 3 P's - prolong,
prevent, promote
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,Population Health - Prolong life with emphasis on quality, evidence-based PBHL,
and communities. examines environmental, social and economic determinants of
health
The 4 components to population health - 1. health (what counts as a health issue)
2. Population (geographically) 3. society's shared concerns (outbreaks, enviro.,
trans.) 4. Vulnerable population (old/kids)
The three approaches to population health - 1. healthcare (screenings/vaccines)
2. traditional PBHL (enviro., FDA, policy) 3. social intervention ( improve housing,
edu., funding for poor)
clinical medicine - focus on individual. emphasis on disease, diagnosis, treatment.
Doctors and nurses.
public health medicine - focus on the population. emphasis on disease
prevention/health promotion. social/public policies. researchers.
demographic transition - how the composition of our population is changing.
there are 5 types of demographics (constant growth, rapid growth, low, low, and
more young than old)
epidemiological/public health transition - As social and economic development
occurs different diseases go away or become prominent
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, natural transition - people will move from poor diets to diets of highly processed
foods
upstream factors - conditions at work before the disease occurs and is shaped by
geography, gender, and class. is usually policies/regulations
downstream factors - micro-level factors that affect the individual and can be
altered by intervention
ex. changing eating habits after finding out you're at risk for diabetes
healthy People 2020 vision - that all people will live long healthy lives
healthy people 2020 mission - 1. nationwide health improvement 2. raise
awareness of determinants of health
3. create measurable goals that are attainable at state, local, and national levels
4. engage with mult. sectors to strengthen policies
5. identify critical research, data, and evolution
Burden of disease - the occurrence of death and disability due to disease. Goes
with problem.
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