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PUBH 201• What are the 3 key elements of public health? (how is PH different than medical care system?) - correct
answer ✔✔population focus
prevention emphasis
o Inclusive of human environment(social, physical, cultural)
o Diverse array of activities
o While medicine is concerned with individual patients, public health regards the community as its
patient, trying to improve the health of the population. Medicine focuses on healing patients who are ill.
Public health focuses on preventing illness.
•What PH issues are considered controversial? - correct answer ✔✔o Economic impact of public health
interventions
o Individual liberty vs. public good
o Moral and religious opposition
o Politics of public health
•Public health vs. medical care - correct answer ✔✔o While medicine is concerned with individual
patients, public health regards the community as its patient, trying to improve the health of the
population. Medicine focuses on healing patients who are ill. Public health focuses on preventing illness.
•3 core functions of public health - correct answer ✔✔assessment. Policy development, Assurance
10 essential public health services - correct answer ✔✔1. Monitor health
2. Diagnose and investigation
3. Inform educate empower
4.Mobilize community partnership
5. Develop policies
6. Enforce laws
7. Link to provide care
, 8. Assure competent workforce
9. Evaluate
10. Research
PH interventions - correct answer ✔✔o Develop and test community-level interventions to control or
prevent the cause
of the problem.
o Implement interventions to improve the health of the population.
o Monitor those interventions to assess their effectiveness.
•Levels of prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary - correct answer ✔✔o Primary: never let something
occur prevents an illness or injury from occurring at all, by preventing exposure to risk factors
o Secondary: reduce impact of an already occurring disease (e.g., early detection) seeks to minimize the
severity of the illness or the damage due to an injury-causing event once the event has occurred
o Tertiary: manage disease or slow or stop disease progression seeks to minimize disability by providing
medical care and rehabilitation services.
•What is the greatest determinant of health status? - correct answer ✔✔o Biology and genetics.
Examples: sex and age
o Individual behavior. Examples: alcohol use, injection drug use (needles), unprotected sex, and smoking
o Social environment. Examples: discrimination, income, and gender
o Physical environment. Examples: where a person lives and crowding conditions
o Health services. Examples: Access to quality health care and having or not having health insurance.
•What are social determinants of health? - correct answer ✔✔o Urban and rural environments •
Healthy neighborhoods
o Employment conditions and labor markets
o Welfare systems
o Access to health care
o Political participation
o Taxation systems Gender equity
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